MX-18 beta 1 feedback

[fehlix]

Impossible to install "Mate desktop and wine" via MxPI into a live-Usb Mx18.
I get: there are not satisfied dependencies. Some packages are damaged.
I control via synaptic filter damaged, but there aren't any.

I have succefully installed wine with MXPI-> popular apps.
Which one you are referring to? in MXPI: PopularApps, Stable, Test Repo, Debian backports

[timkb4cq]

I just installed Mate and Wine into my MX-17.1 upgraded to MX-18.

The problem you are having may be because Mate has to pull in some packages from the MX18/dev repository for each of those installs, and I believe that repo is disabled on the MX-18b1 LiveUSB. Those packages will be moved to main in a day or two and the problem will be solved.

[balarm]

Hi, @fehlix: I meant popular apps for both; I'll wait some days when packages move to main.

[pemartins]

I do not have the chance right now to load MX 18 to test this and I apologize if it's already done but is it possible to create the keyboard shortcut XF86Calculator for Galculator?
At least in MX 17 it does not exist by default.

[baldyeti]

A minor oddity i noticed in 18b1: the firefox about box mentions MX-Linux 1.0 (?!?)

[Stevo]

A minor oddity i noticed in 18b1: the firefox about box mentions MX-Linux 1.0 (?!?)

Not just in the Beta, for any current version of MX: 16, 17, etc. It's a quirk of the distribution.ini file we add.

[entropyfoe]

Paul, caprea, and namida,

THis Ryzen is rocking with this MX18 beta1 now.

Over two days uptime, mostly idling (which causes the crash) still solid.
I will leave the rcu_nocbs for now, but when the RC comes, I will ommit the grub line.

So the key is a newer BIOS, for me 4024, that has a new option in the advanced tab, Power Supply Idle Control, and this is set from the Auto to "Typical Current Idle".

Many report on the AMD boards that this is a fix, though a minority ( a few) still have the problem. One key issue was you should reboot from cold after changing the parameter in the BIOS. In any case is is a long way from 143 days uptime on MX 17 using an antix 4.15 kernel and the rcu_nocbs fix, but this looks good.

[baldyeti]

Sorry to repeat myself, but i have not seen this problem acknowledged - on my mbr-partitioned 18b1 HDD install, there was initially no entry for windows in grub.cfg. A subsequent update-grub fixed this, but still. Is nobody else seeing this behaviour ?

[Eadwine Rose]

When I installed MX18b1 on my new harddrive it put an entry in grub for Windows, right on the bottom, so nope.. not seeing the behavior here.

[baldyeti]

Thanks Rose. I seem to recall somebody mentioning that same issue with MX17 in the past, but cannot find back that thread.
Later tonight i'll add some details about this particular system, although it seems rather standard to me.