MX-19 Beta 3 Feedback

[Eadwine Rose]

I posted links to videos by DO before. Two, one on how to work with that ESP and one on the UEFI/legacy issue..


Found them.

Here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLFUZ6LtqiE&t
Here is the other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlaO6RyUt4

[bpr323]

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2. Create an ESP-partition
The shown /dev/nvme0n1p1 is a 256MB vfat partition - but it is not a ESP (EFI SystemPartion, yet)
Within Gparted you need to "mark" the /dev/nvme0n1p1 as "esp" + "boot" , otherwise this partition is not recognised as ESP.

So please run again a manual custom-installation, but do prepare nvme0n1 as such:

:->: ESP 256MB vfat maked as esp+boot
:->: "/"-root ext4 partition
:->: no boot partition.


+++EDIT: +++
And if you really want to install and boot only in legacy (BIOS) mode, do create a MSDOS-partition table,
which can hold the embedded legacy GRUB-loader.
Otherwise with GPT-partion table -as mentioned - you "must" (or better do so) to create a 1MB sized unformated partition marked as bios-grub/grub-bios, preferable as first partion on the drive.

This is what my gpt screen looks like on 19b2.1:

mx19b2.1 gpt X1g5.png

1) I can't edit the mount points with Gparted, nor the Names of partitions e.g. ESP - I can only create labels and manage flags (the latter clearly not required for MX - they are empty on my pc
2) How on earth is the person who is installing MX for the 1st time should know (has just downloaded ISO from distrowatch) how to set the partitions in this particular way with gpt? Is there an MX WIKI for that?
Please fix the autoinstall for UEFI and I will gladly set and forget, without all this "song and dance" routine with gpt

[bpr323]

I posted links to videos by DO before. Two, one on how to work with that ESP and one on the UEFI/legacy issue..


Found them.

Here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLFUZ6LtqiE&t
Here is the other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlaO6RyUt4

OMG .. The top video (thinkpad BIOS) explains why my MX install was going to BIOS mode (Legacy) - I had UEFI boot set to "both" and CSM set to "enabled". I will make sure it's fixed before next install.
Priceless piece of info, should be on the front page of MX website.

[Eadwine Rose]

Let us know if the prob actually gets sorted now :)

[Jerry3904]

Priceless piece of info, should be on the front page of MX website.

What piece of info, exactly?

[berlin59]

Screensaver takes over regardless what I defined in energy-control.
I tried "presentation mode" where screensaver shouldn't interfere.
I disabled any screensaving-activities and any other options.
Nothing helps. After 10 minutes, the screensaver is at work.
How can I cange that ?

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System:    Host: mx Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 
           root=UUID=0726d929-c20b-437e-8ba7-147eb244e045 ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19beta-2.1_x64 patito feo September 8  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Inspiron 560 v: 00 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0K83V0 v: A00 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A06 date: 12/01/2010 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Pentium E5400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn family: 6 
           model-id: 17 (23) stepping: A (10) microcode: A0B L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 10773 
           Speed: 1961 MHz min/max: 1203/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1962 2: 1940 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: EPT disabled 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730] vendor: PC Partner Limited 
           driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:68d8 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD REDWOOD (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-6-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3a3e 
           Device-2: AMD Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series] vendor: PC Partner Limited 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aa60 
           Device-3: Microsoft LifeCam VX-2000 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           bus ID: 3-4:2 chip ID: 045e:0761 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e800 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 213.25 GiB (45.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HD503HI size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: 00E5 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 26.73 GiB size: 26.19 GiB (97.96%) used: 9.33 GiB (35.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda8 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 6.67 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda7 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 57 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 499 mobo: 850 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 201 Uptime: 6h 46m Memory: 3.85 GiB used: 1.48 GiB (38.3%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[Jerry3904]

Have you read the HELP file on the screensaver?

[bpr323]

Priceless piece of info, should be on the front page of MX website.

What piece of info, exactly?

Jerry, have you even watched the youtube video I'm referring to?
There's a couple of interlinked Thinkpad BIOS settings that if set incorrectly would prevent MX from installing in UEFI mode.
I mentioned that in my post above.

[bpr323]

Let us know if the prob actually gets sorted now :)

Gladly! But not until the Devs fix the minstall.conf issue that breaks the "full disk" autoinstall in minstall-gui

[SwampRabbit]

There's a couple of interlinked Thinkpad BIOS settings that if set incorrectly would prevent MX from installing in UEFI mode.
I mentioned that in my post above.

Is this a limited case though?

I want to say that I installed filled disk UEFI boot set to "both" and CSM set to "enabled" just a few days ago on a desktop. Won’t be able to check until I get home later tonight.

Maybe we should start compiling a laundry list of systems on the wiki needing specific BIOS settings for install issues. I think there is a website that does this in general for Linux already for notebooks/laptops.