MX-18 Feedback

[tascoast]

I installed MX18_x64 from a USB, after obtaining the Sourceforge direct download, creating the install medium using Live USB Maker.
I unchecked the boot splash
Used MX Tweak to uncheck single click for Thunar and Desktop and set as Horizontal Panel
set 2 rows for Windows Switcher, 11pt for the clock, appending %P to Line for am/pm indicators
Reversed Whisker Menu (Position categories next to panel button)
Checked show menu for Firefox, importing stored HTML bookmarks, added Australian Spelling and Colorful Tabs extensions, set blank for home/new tabs, deleted unwanted search engines, checked smooth scrolling
Set Thunar to show detailed list and unchecked Automatically expand columns..., set left pane as Tree View
Used Disk Manager to mount shared partitions eg. 'Data'
Unchecked Automatically resize window settings in VLC Player
Manually unchecked Show Frame in Notification Area preferences
Unchecked Power Manager show icon for Desktop use

To Do:
Add Australian Spelling/Thesaurus via Synaptic
Change windows buttons to show flat and permit drag and drop
etc
Well done and thanks

**

BTW: how do you change that Information,, that is displayed on the screen ?
ie: it's in the American Format - date format ...
yet the TZ is correctly set to Perth, AU

Same here for Melbourne, with US date format on mouse over

[Pierre]

Hey - - Nice List
:)
the Australianised Version.

[tascoast]

I enabled compositing and set a transparent image for Panel background. For this I substitute Clock for the default Orage, since Clock allows for a transparent background**. The US date format still occurs however. Not sure if there is a global setting for this one, although there hasn't been a need to adjust in the past.
*just remembered to copy over hidden file .face for user icon.
**When using a transparent Panel background image, the MX Updater wireframe default icon went to a grey square but corrects itself upon logout/login

Edit:
Have tried disabling the boot splash in Boot Options in the newly installed MX-18 a couple of times now and restarting, to no effect.
MX-18 Grub was installed per defaults to Root, Grub itself adjusted in MX-17 (since updated to MX-18 per instructions for creating additional source file)

[Jerry3904]

BTW: how do you change that Information,, that is displayed on the screen ?
ie: it's in the American Format - date format ...
yet the TZ is correctly set to Perth, AU
Same here for Melbourne, with US date format on mouse over

Mouse over what? And with "information on the screen" do you mean the conky in top middle?

[tascoast]

Mouse over=When you hover over the Panel clock and the full date is displayed,
EDIT:
My date formats all look good now. Perhaps rebooting and updating has sorted it.

[fehlix]

BTW: how do you change that Information,, that is displayed on the screen ?
ie: it's in the American Format - date format ...
yet the TZ is correctly set to Perth, AU

keyboard is US, of course.

The date display format is determind through the selected lang-locale not through the timezone you are in.
Just logout and select your locale "Australian English, Australia" in the upper right corner to have the LANG set to en_AU.utf8
and the date will be displayed in the corresponding locale format definition.

[Pierre]

there's the 'ahah moment' - - an setting that didn't get set, by the installer,,
- - that did work

[anticapitalista]

there's the 'ahah moment' - - an setting that didn't get set, by the installer,,
- - that did work

You get the option to set it (locales) via installer

[chrispop99]

Off to a good start:

Snapshot-15-47-05.png

Chris

[oldhoghead]

Just wanted to input some info in case anyone run's into this issue.

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Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236133] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236135] vblank wait timed out on crtc 0
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236207] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 128 at /build/linux-4.19.5/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c:1084 drm_wait_one_vblank+0x168/0x170 [drm]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236209] Modules linked in: hid_generic(E) usbhid(E) hid(E) psmouse(E) i915(E) i2c_i801(E) ahci(E) ata_piix(E) libahci(E) i2c_algo_bit(E) sdhci_pci(E) ehci_pci(E) uhci_hcd(E) ehci_hcd(E) cqhci(E) sdhci(E) firewire_ohci(E) drm_kms_helper(E) libata(E) mmc_core(E) firewire_core(E) crc_itu_t(E) scsi_mod(E) drm(E) sky2(E) usbcore(E) usb_common(E) fan(E) thermal(E) video(E) button(E)
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236245] CPU: 0 PID: 128 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Tainted: G            E     4.19.0-1-amd64 #1 Debian 4.19.5-2~mx17+1
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236246] Hardware name: TOSHIBA Satellite A205/SANTA ROSA CRB, BIOS 1.20     06/15/2007
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236253] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236272] RIP: 0010:drm_wait_one_vblank+0x168/0x170 [drm]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236275] Code: ff ff ff e8 ca 06 85 d4 48 89 e6 4c 89 f7 e8 bf 97 89 d4 45 85 e4 0f 85 0d ff ff ff 89 ee 48 c7 c7 18 c9 44 c0 e8 08 04 85 d4 <0f> 0b e9 f8 fe ff ff 90 66 66 66 66 90 8b b7 90 00 00 00 48 8b 3f
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236277] RSP: 0018:ffffb4d100697a70 EFLAGS: 00010286
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236279] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9c9b746f8000 RCX: ffffffff95c4dc68
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236281] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000096 RDI: 0000000000000247
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236283] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00000000000002ed
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236284] R10: ffffffff95c03d40 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236286] R13: 0000000001000001 R14: ffff9c9b73df4c08 R15: 0000000000000001
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236289] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c9bbd200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236291] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236293] CR2: 00007ffd2ee64f2c CR3: 000000002fa0a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236294] Call Trace:
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236303]  ? remove_wait_queue+0x60/0x60
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236393]  intel_get_load_detect_pipe+0x39a/0x3d0 [i915]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236447]  intel_tv_detect+0x140/0x4d0 [i915]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236462]  ? drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0xd8/0x700 [drm_kms_helper]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236471]  drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0xd8/0x700 [drm_kms_helper]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236482]  drm_setup_crtcs+0x13c/0xa80 [drm_kms_helper]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236487]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236489]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236491]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236494]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236496]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236498]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236508]  __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x39/0x450 [drm_kms_helper]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236510]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236514]  ? _cond_resched+0x16/0x40
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236566]  intel_fbdev_initial_config+0x14/0x30 [i915]
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236570]  async_run_entry_fn+0x39/0x160
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236574]  process_one_work+0x191/0x370
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236577]  worker_thread+0x4f/0x3b0
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236580]  kthread+0xf8/0x130
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236583]  ? rescuer_thread+0x340/0x340
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236585]  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236587]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   13.236591] ---[ end trace 690204f1cd77f707 ]---
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   23.375143] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CRTC:34:pipe A] flip_done timed out
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   33.615142] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CONNECTOR:50:SVIDEO-1] flip_done timed out
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   33.626001] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.337662] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.357988] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.375983] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 390721968 512-byte logical blocks: (200 GB/186 GiB)
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.376057] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.376061] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.376081] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.402078] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.402082] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.402488] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.502656]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.503661] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.996017] random: crng init done
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   34.996020] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   44.880176] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CRTC:41:pipe B] flip_done timed out
Dec 18 20:08:12 mxtlap kernel: [   44.982150] ------------[ cut here ]------------

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ohh@mxtlap:~
$ inxi -Fxrz
System:    Host: mxtlap Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18_x64 Continuum December 17  2018 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Other-vm? System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite A205 v: PSAF3U-03600V 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Intel model: SANTA ROSA CRB serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 1.20 
           date: 06/15/2007 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 52.3 Wh condition: 52.1/52.1 Wh (100%) model: PA3534U-1BRS 
           status: Unknown 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom 
           rev: D L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6650 
           Speed: 1306 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1306 2: 1379 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM v: 2.1 Mesa 18.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Marvell 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: 2000 
           bus ID: 02:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network driver: iwl4965 
           v: in-tree: port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 186.31 GiB used: 5.27 GiB (2.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2035GSS size: 186.31 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 22.31 GiB used: 5.13 GiB (23.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: /home size: 23.76 GiB used: 137.1 MiB (0.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/stretch stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 179 Uptime: 1h 28m Memory: 1.94 GiB used: 767.9 MiB (38.7%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.25 

On this laptop would not boot correctly until I added the

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video=SVIDEO-1:d

after the quiet line in grub , now boots normally.
The artwork and themes, login are really beautiful.
So far no issues other than conky bug already addressed.
Great job by all the antiX-MX team, really impressed.
Just an aside would not boot on my iMac 2007 vintage,
will create an iso later today that should work on it, and will update this thread then.

cheers,
ohh