MX-21 beta 1 feedback thread

[CharlesV]

@CharlesV try creating your live USB with GPT partitioning instead of MSDOS partitioning. Advanced Options in Live USB Maker.

Thanks JayM . Pretty sure that was what I did, but it looks like it didnt work or I didnt do that. I resorted to Windoz and Rufus and GPT & UEFI and now it is booting up.

Next problem... I dont see the NVMe drive at all. Double checked that it was fully shutdown, and have shrunk the partition already in anticipating the install... but all gparted see's is the USB stick.

[CharlesV]

@CharlesV try creating your live USB with GPT partitioning instead of MSDOS partitioning. Advanced Options in Live USB Maker.

I wonder if I had the same problem. A brand new cruzer with MX Live USB Maker. Everything seemed to go ok. When I booted, my f12 boot choice showed the device (linpus lite. BTW: Where does that name come from? I've always wondered.). I chose it. But, the system booted the hard drive (skipping my choice. I tried unetbootin. Same thing.). I finally used MX Tools > Format USB. Then used Live USB Maker. That worked.

Does that sound like the same experience? If so, I wonder why USB Maker (or unetbootin) wouldn't detect it and do the necessary? Sorry if I'm off topic. It's just that if my experience is the same thing, then someone referred to "fix info permanently saved somewhere." That made me wonder why the tool(s) wouldn't detect the condition? (But, we may be talking about different things?).

This does sound like the same thing, with one exception - the cruzer wasnt new, it had on board an existing 19.2 live install - and positive it was mbr . It *seems* like the live creator didnt do the UEFI, but it is highly possible that I didnt set it. (thought I did.. but ... )

[Huckleberry Finn]

I dont see the NVMe drive at all. Double checked that it was fully shutdown, and have shrunk the partition already in anticipating the install... but all gparted see's is the USB stick.

Sata mode to Ahci in Bios (if you haven't already).

[CharlesV]

I dont see the NVMe drive at all. Double checked that it was fully shutdown, and have shrunk the partition already in anticipating the install... but all gparted see's is the USB stick.

Sata mode to Ahci in Bios (if you haven't already).

I see no settings for this in that bios.

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
[upper right hand corner type]
Doubled notification of "Updates" two of the same window

more observations of symptoms.
log in the root account only one Updates notification. log out.
log in user account sees two notification of Updates. log out.
log into root see one Updates notification. log out.
log into user sees two Updates notifications.

Now about the login lightdm screen:
the little person icon, clicking.
choosing "Large Text"
it shows a cramped menu with arrow up arrow down.
if the languages dropdown pops up and click somewhere to close or ignore it,
after that the little person icon menu is Large Text without the arrows. click Large Text to make small menu again, then the menu becomes small text on big menu area.

It is always navigational, but offers varied look. after clicking the little person icon and selecting or deselecting Large Text.

i like lightdm.
On the dual monitor it works great, follow mouse. i like the ability to sign into root account. user backgrounds.

[figueroa]

This is a second feedback, whereas I had previously only booted directly from the ISO in VirtualBox on somewhat modern hardware and created a Live-USB. This is about the live-usb. The live-usb created flawlessly (twice, because the first was to suspected-to-be-bad flash drive; it was bad).

The second 16GB live-usb (about the minimum size to allow space for remastering) booted quickly to 2008 AMD-X64 dual-core hardware with 4 GB or RAM. Enabled persistence with 3 GB static-root rootfs. Upgraded, installed openssh-server, x2goserver, and x2goclient. The XFCE desktop continues in this version to be unusable as a remote machine, same as MX-19. From a local login I installed LXDE with MXPI. Logging in to LXDE locally and remotely via x2go found it to be totally usable and nicely configured.

After a reboot and saving persistence, I rebooted loading the nearly 800 MB persistence file. I remastered, and rebooted again, then cleaning up old persistence files with MX RemasterCC. Currently concurrently logged in locally with XFCE and running remotely with LXDE as same user. Working fine. No conflicts observed. Default software appears to work fine.

I've been unable to discover any new bugs. For the curious, here is a link to a screenshot of the slightly tweaked LXDE desktp from a remote session:
http://2chronicles36.org/Screenshot_MX21b1.png

[CharlesV]

I dont see the NVMe drive at all. Double checked that it was fully shutdown, and have shrunk the partition already in anticipating the install... but all gparted see's is the USB stick.

Sata mode to Ahci in Bios (if you haven't already).

Looks like you nailed it ... In reading up on the Yoga 900, it needs a firmware update to expose this. The unit ships raid enabled, with no exposed bios setting ;-/

[agnivo007]

In the meantime, with no smb gui support in sight, may I propose a NFS GUI (updated recently to use GTK3/QT5) for inclusion and testing?
AFAIK, MX boots with NFS kernel mod loaded.

Link: https://github.com/Philippe734/Simple.NFS.GUI

Ignore if not relevant.

[LU344928]

Making a persist usb went smoothly as expected.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash persist_root
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
           Distro: MX-21_beta1_x64 Wildflower July 27  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: E402NA v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: E402NA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends
           v: E402NA.304 date: 02/24/2017
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.2 Wh condition: 20.2/32.2 Wh (63%) volts: 7.6/7.6
           model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Not charging
           cycles: 27
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N3350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Goldmont
           family: 6 model-id: 5C (92) stepping: 9 microcode: 44 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 4377
           Speed: 2293 MHz min/max: 800/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2288 2: 2366
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected
           Type: mds status: Not affected
           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
           Type: srbds status: Not affected
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 500 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5a85
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 500 (APL 2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5
           direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster
           vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:0e.0 chip ID: 8086:5a98
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169
           v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 01:00.2 chip ID: 10ec:8136
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
           vendor: AzureWave driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0
           chip ID: 168c:0042
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 480.41 GiB used: 2.32 GiB (0.5%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF050 size: 465.76 GiB block size:
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter>
           rev: 3J scheme: GPT
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 14.65 GiB
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 2.92 GiB used: 68.9 MiB (2.3%) fs: overlay
           source: ERR-102
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3100
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 bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:      Processes: 196 Uptime: 4m Memory: 3.71 GiB used: 1.02 GiB (27.5%) Init: SysVinit
           v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36

There are a few minor issues on the hd installation but I'll do the updates and that might be the fix

Btw, anyone know if the screensaver issue's been fixed with this newer Xfce?

[fehlix]

[upper right hand corner type]
Doubled notification of "Updates" two of the same window
..
log in the root account only one Updates notification. log out.
...
log into root see one Updates notification. log out.

You want two? Tick save sessions on logout