MX 19 Repository: The Liquorix Kernel Thread

[Otter]

Is that 5.9 kernel from our test repo? Hopefully, the new maintainer will announce at least major version bumps here...hint hint

5.9.0-8.3-liquorix-amd64 from test repo works with nvidia driver from test repo. I have AHS repo enabled too. Thanks to all the maintainers.

[andyprough]

Is that 5.9 kernel from our test repo? Hopefully, the new maintainer will announce at least major version bumps here...hint hint

I'd better start doing those announcements, it's not something I'd been thinking about before.

Can you tell us Steve why Nvidia is suddenly working by default with these recent versions of Liquorix? Is it because of new Nvidia firmware in the repo?

[Stevo]

It's because Debian added 5.9-compatible new Nvidia driver versions upstream in Sid, I backported them and sent them to Tim, and he added them to the repos. No mystery--I have had to do that with most new major kernel version bumps. Virtual Box is another big pain, too.

[andyprough]

There's been a flurry of activity on the new Liquorix kernel 5.10 this week, so I've started out by building the 5.10-5 package. I've sent it to Tim for inclusion in the test repo.

Prior warnings about needing to install the latest Virtualbox, Nvidia, broadcom, and Bumblebee firmware prior to installing this new kernel MAY apply - hopefully Stevo will weigh in on that point.

[fossean]

Liquorix 5.10.0-4.3 booting fine here with latest available Nvidia driver 455.45.01

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-4.3-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable 
           BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-4.3-liquorix-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: Compiz 0.8.18 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.3_x64 patito feo October 15  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: 760GA-P43(FX) (MS-7699) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.3 date: 10/14/2014 
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: AMD FX-6300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bulldozer 
           family: 15 (21) model-id: 2 stepping: N/A microcode: 6000852 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 42000 
           Speed: 3798 MHz min/max: 1400/3500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3261 
           2: 2868 3: 1398 4: 1399 5: 1676 6: 1849 
           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 
           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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nvidia 
           v: 455.45.01 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nvidia 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv compositor: compiz v: 0.8.18 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.45.01 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f1 
           Device-3: C-Media type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 2-2:2 
           chip ID: 0d8c:0012 serial: <filter> 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-4.3-liquorix-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: c800 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.49 TiB used: 748.99 GiB (49.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: CC45 scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD6400AAKS-22A7B2 size: 596.17 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3B01 
           scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 29.30 GiB size: 28.71 GiB (98.00%) used: 19.23 GiB (67.0%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 900.78 GiB size: 885.64 GiB (98.32%) used: 521.96 GiB (58.9%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 450.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: 35.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 31 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-1: 643 fan-3: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 53% 
           Voltages: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.36 vbat: 3.25 
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 https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list 
           1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:      Processes: 279 Uptime: 3m Memory: 15.63 GiB used: 1012.2 MiB (6.3%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[andyprough]

Liquorix 5.10.0-4.3 booting fine here with latest available Nvidia driver 455.45.01

That's great to hear.

[JayM]

Working fine here too. My VirtualBox (6.1.16) VMs wouldn't start until I installed the virtualbox-ext-pack package from the Test repo though (the Virtualbox Extensions were previously uninstalled and apparently weren't needed for the Debian 5.8.0-3 kernel but apparently are/is for the Liquorix kernel. All my VMs work now though.)

[andyprough]

Working fine here too. My VirtualBox (6.1.16) VMs wouldn't start until I installed the virtualbox-ext-pack package from the Test repo though (the Virtualbox Extensions were previously uninstalled and apparently weren't needed for the Debian 5.8.0-3 kernel but apparently are/is for the Liquorix kernel. All my VMs work now though.)

OK great. I'm sending up the latest 5.10-8 version of the Liquorix kernel today, should be in the test repo within a few hours.

[Stevo]

Your previous 5.10 Liquorix kernel also works fine on an Acer Skylake Optimus laptop using Bumblebee with the patched 450.82 Nvidia drivers now in AHS and the MX test repos.

[andyprough]

Your previous 5.10 Liquorix kernel also works fine on an Acer Skylake Optimus laptop using Bumblebee with the patched 450.82 Nvidia drivers now in AHS and the MX test repos.

Happy dance time