MX-19.2 KDE Beta 1 feedback thread

[richb]

Is that screenshot from the live media or an installed system?

Installed system.

AbbyT

That might be a timing issue. Question to ask, ist that only a cosmetical issue and does the system works normally. If it works normally we might suppress the first dbus-call-attempt message, as the 2nd dbus-call would work.

I had this during the alpha cycle. It was only on the LiveUSB and had no affect on the performance of the system.

[AbbyT]

That might be a timing issue. Question to ask, ist that only a cosmetical issue and does the system works normally. If it works normally we might suppress the first dbus-call-attempt message, as the 2nd dbus-call would work.

It appears just before the Welcome to Plasma splash screen. Everything else seems normal.

Thx for all your good work.

AbbyT

[uncle mark]

Posting from live USB with old slow thumb drive on old slow machine. Looks promising.

On startup I'm getting 2 MX Welcome windows and it appears I have two panels, one on top of the other. Also, can't set time. Doesn't ask for authentication, so can't feed it root password and therefore.

Not in a position to give this a real workout, but wanted to let you guys know I'm really happy to see this.

Edit to add: System info didn't copy to clipboard, had to do copy/paste manually.

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System:
  Host: mx1 Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  parameters: quiet splasht nosplash 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-19.2_KDE-beta1_x64 patito feo July 5  2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire 5250 v: V1.01 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5250 v: V1.01 serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 1.01 
  date: 04/21/2011 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 48.1 Wh condition: 48.1/47.5 Wh (101%) volts: 12.4/10.8 
  model: Panasonic AS10D51 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M215 serial: <filter> 
  charge: 5% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: AMD C-50 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bobcat 
  family: 14 (20) model-id: 1 stepping: N/A microcode: 5000029 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 3989 
  Speed: 941 MHz min/max: 800/1000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 941 2: 842 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:9804 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: radeon FAILED: ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.6.0-2-amd64 LLVM 10.0.0) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.7 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-2-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: 2000 bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 1969:2062 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On 
  driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 168c:002b 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 115.56 GiB used: 400.1 MiB (0.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A120G size: 111.79 GiB block size: 
  physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: BBF0 
  scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer size: 3.77 GiB block size: 
  physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 8.02 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 2.83 GiB used: 400.1 MiB (13.8%) fs: overlay 
  source: ERR-102 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 5.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 65.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 64 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  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/mx.list 
  1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
  2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster ahs
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 198 Uptime: 22m Memory: 3.58 GiB used: 1.28 GiB (35.6%) 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 

[JayM]

I just installed it in a VM. I don't actually like KDE anymore but MX KDE seems OK. The installation is using 6.45GB of disk space, and Plasma uses 485MB of RAM when idle as opposed to regular (non-ahs) Xfce MX-19.2 in a VM which uses 446MB. Just 40 more megs of RAM isn't too shabby considering it's Plasma, with whatever eye candy's enabled by default.

[chrispop99]

Couple of trivial points before I forget:

IMHO the desktop icons are way too big, and would look better vertically down the LH side.

Would it make sense to set the keybinding for Konsole to Ctrl-Alt-T to match the Xfce release?

Chris

[rrhobbs]

I have it up n running (installed) on an HP Pavillion g7 1150us laptop.

I got the Dbus error booting the liveusb and my clock was off till I did a system update.

Also I have to manually connect to my network / internet each time I boot.

After letting the machine "sleep" overnight (default power settings) it was generally buggy, couldnt start any apps ie Chrome, couldnt find anything in my home.

I did a hot reboot / pretty much back to where I was.

I installed Skype it asked for the keyring each time I boot.

Quick system info will be in reply to this post.

[rrhobbs]

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System:
  Host: RRHOBBS-HP-MX Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-2-amd64 
  root=UUID=91739d4c-f689-4e16-81a0-f12cb59f4701 ro quiet splash 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-19.2_KDE-beta1_x64 patito feo July 5  2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC 
  v: 0593110000204610000620100 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 166A v: 08.39 serial: <filter> BIOS: Insyde v: F.66 
  date: 01/24/2013 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.5 Wh condition: 45.5/45.5 Wh (100%) volts: 0.1/11.1 
  model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 serial: <filter> 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3 M 370 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem 
  family: 6 model-id: 25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 7 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 19155 
  Speed: 1605 MHz min/max: 933/2399 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1605 2: 1617 3: 1897 
  4: 1690 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds 
  status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
  STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0046 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel compositor: kwin_x11 
  resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.0.7 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3b56 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-2-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard U98Z077.00 Half-size Mini driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 
  port: 5000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 1814:5390 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 7.77 GiB (3.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU635 size: 223.57 GiB block size: 
  physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1c89 
  scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 221.54 GiB size: 217.06 GiB (97.98%) used: 7.77 GiB (3.6%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  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://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
  2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 228 Uptime: 46m Memory: 7.58 GiB used: 2.13 GiB (28.0%) 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 

[asqwerth]

...
Also I have to manually connect to my network / internet each time I boot....

That is a known issue expressly set out in the Blog announcement for the Beta1

[rrhobbs]

Copy wifi issue / blog / thx. Just ticked the "allow all users box" as per blog.

A couple more things....

There is an exclamation point by my wifi icon in the tray, connection works tho

Display issue in Chrome / the desktop seems t keep trying to "print thru" the browser if I scroll up or down.

On boot there is a notice ... in Grub I guess? "(VMX) outside text not allowed per bios"

Full disclosure I am not a Dev more of an enthusiast user of MX / KDE.

Sorry if I am not of more help. Will def be onboard for the stable release :)

Thx

[asqwerth]

Any way you could take a pic of the notice in grub on bootup, and screenshot the Chrome "print thru" issue?