MX 19 Repository: The Liquorix Kernel Thread

[andyprough]

Once again, there's been another flurry of activity on the newest Liquorix kernel 5.11 this week, so I've started out by building the 5.11-6 package. Hopefully it will make it into the MX Test repo within the next day, depending on Tim's schedule.

Please let me know again if you have anything to report about it, good, bad, or ugly. As before, you might find you need to install the latest Virtualbox, Nvidia, broadcom, and Bumblebee firmware prior to installing this new kernel.

[JayM]

Question: I installed Liquorix 5.10.0-4.3 in January but now i can't find it in the test repo!?! I'd like to uninstall it prior to testing the latest 5.11 one so my (flat with no submenus) grub menu doesn't get too crowded. (I originally installed it from MXPI Pop Apps, Kernels.)

[andyprough]

Question: I installed Liquorix 5.10.0-4.3 in January but now i can't find it in the test repo!?! I'd like to uninstall it prior to testing the latest 5.11 one so my (flat with no submenus) grub menu doesn't get too crowded. (I originally installed it from MXPI Pop Apps, Kernels.)

Hi Jay, The way Tim handles the Liquorix repo is he has our most recent packaged version for each major version number (5.8.x, 5.9.x, 5.10.x) in the MX Test Repo, along with the very latest version that has been packaged. He removes the older ones after a new one comes in. So right at this moment, the 5.10.x versions in the MX Test Repo (http://iso.mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/pool/ ... x/?C=M;O=D) appear to be:
linux-image-5.10.0-15.2-liquorix-amd64_5.10-24
and
linux-image-5.10.0-17.1-liquorix-amd64_5.10-25

These would be the 5.10-24 and 5.10-25 kernels according to the Liquorix versioning, otherwise known as the 5.10.0-15.2 and 5.10.0-17.1 kernels according to the regular Linux kernel versioning. So your version 5.10.0-4.3 has been gone from the repo for a few weeks.

I would recommend using synaptic's Search function to find your kernel and kernel headers by searching for 'liquorix', and then using 'remove completely' in synaptic to remove them.

I know you are too advanced to make this mistake - but do please make sure you have booted up using a different kernel before removing it! I made that mistake myself once not that long ago - I only ever had to make that mistake once to have it burned into my consciousness forever. Since then, I always run 'uname -a' and double check my running kernel version before removing any kernels.

[fossean]

Liquorix 5.11.0-2.4 boots, but nvidia driver isn't loaded (installed driver is latest available in test repo, 455.45.01). Rebooted back to Liquorix 5.10 for now.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-17.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable 
           BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-17.1-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: 41999 
           Speed: 1394 MHz min/max: 1400/3500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1878 
           2: 1587 3: 1400 4: 1400 5: 1522 6: 1468 
           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: 1-2:3 
           chip ID: 0d8c:0012 serial: <filter> 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-17.1-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: 735.82 GiB (48.2%) 
           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: 19.69 GiB (68.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 900.78 GiB size: 885.64 GiB (98.32%) used: 525.84 GiB (59.4%) 
           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: 37.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 35 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-1: 642 fan-3: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 54% 
           Voltages: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.34 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 http://mirror.plusserver.com/mxlinux/mxlinux/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: 277 Uptime: 18m Memory: 15.64 GiB used: 1.81 GiB (11.6%) 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 5.11.0-2.4 boots, but nvidia driver isn't loaded (installed driver is latest available in test repo, 455.45.01). Rebooted back to Liquorix 5.10 for now.

We may need a new nvidia package like when this happened with Liquorix 5.6.

[andyprough]

I won't be updating the Liquorix 5.11 kernel this week as I'm out of town and away from my build computer, I'll do the next update next weekend.

Has anyone had any other good or bad experiences with the 5.11 series so far?

[ckester]

I won't be updating the Liquorix 5.11 kernel this week as I'm out of town and away from my build computer, I'll do the next update next weekend.

Has anyone had any other good or bad experiences with the 5.11 series so far?

$ uname -srvm
Linux 5.11.0-4.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT liquorix 5.11-10~mx19+1 (2021-03-08) x86_64

No issues so far. :)

[Stevo]

You may have to update the Nvidia drivers from buster-backports right now until I or another packager have time to port and test them for the MX repos. Backports is ahead of us at the moment.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

virtualbox-6.1.18 for bullseye only

[Stevo]

That last post might be in the wrong thread, except that we do need to rebuild the last virtualbox 6.1.18-3 from Sid, since the "-3" update there added a patch to support builds on the 5.11 kernel. Not only for mx21, but for mx19 and mx17 repos, too.