MX-21 Fluxbox RC1 feedback

[mbmalone]

I have an HP Stream-14 Notebook and cannot get the brightness systray app to function at all. The screen is set to 100% brightness upon boot and I haven't discovered another way to adjust it. The PC105 US keyboard appears to be working properly and normally the F2 and F3 keys would control screen brightness on this notebook. The keys work properly on MX Xfce.

if you would, try running

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/usr/lib/mx-tweak/backlight-brightness

in a terminal and see if you can adjust brightness that way.

also the output of

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ls /sys/class/backlight

might be useful.

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sudo /usr/lib/mx-tweak/backlight-brightness

seems to be working perfectly .....

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ls /sys/class/backlight

$ ls /sys/class/backlight
intel_backlight

[mbmalone]

how do I delete this post?

[mbmalone]

If the systemtray display app is working, the control adjustment is off the screen somewhere or hidden below the bottom toolbar. I can't see or adjust it there, only the icon appears in the system tray.

This is working ...

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sudo /usr/lib/mx-tweak/backlight-brightness -10
sudo /usr/lib/mx-tweak/backlight-brightness +10

[dolphin_oracle]

Ok it’s probably coming up off screen. We just did a similar fox for the Unmounter tool.

[Girafenaine]

Thanks for the details feedback! It's very late to be making changes, and some of them )menus, for instance) would cause big trouble. But they will definitely all be considered for the future.

We're have just fixed the Settings Manager problem you raise btw.

Thanks Jerry for your answer. I am sorry to be late, and I don't know how I could have helped sooner, except when I saw the beta release - but september was too heavy at work...

I just hope some of my points could be useful for MXFB 21 ! The system itself (debian, MX repo and MX tools, antiX live abilities) and the customization options (tint2, fluxbox menu and keys and startup and windows settings...) are wonderful. But the default appearance and UX could be easier and more polished for a new user.

[siamhie]

Was this removed during a recent update? I can no longer find Top under Settings>Configure.

top.png

[Jerry3904]

Try Appearance > Style

[siamhie]

Try Appearance > Style

Thanks @Jerry3904. I couldn't remember where I saw it the first time.

[siamhie]

@manyroads I've been running the 5.14 kernel for about a week now on Fluxbox rc1 with no issues. viewtopic.php?f=115&p=656652#p656652

@SwampRabbit asked me to test the rtl8814 driver against the kernel and report any issues (which there were none).

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.14.0-1mx-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.0-1mx-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           init=/lib/systemd/systemd 
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 info: tint2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_fluxbox_rc1_x64 Wildflower Oct 05  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: ASUSTeK product: K30BF_M32BF_A_F_K31BF_6 v: N/A 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: K30BF_M32BF_A_F_K31BF_6 v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0401 date: 04/29/2015 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
           Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G bits: 64 
           type: MCP arch: Steamroller family: 15 (21) model-id: 30 (48) stepping: 1 
           microcode: 6003106 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 27927 
           Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/3500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2033 
           2: 2173 3: 2341 4: 2213 
           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, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:130f 
           Device-2: AMD Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon v: kernel 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6613 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: ati,radeon 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa compositor: compton v: 1 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD OLAND (DRM 2.50.0 5.14.0-1mx-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:01.1 chip ID: 1002:1308 
           Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1022:780d 
           Device-3: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] 
           vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aab0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.14.0-1mx-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: AzureWave 
           driver: rtl8821ae v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8821 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: NetGear Nighthawk A7000 802.11ac Wireless Adapter AC1900 [Realtek 8814AU] 
           type: USB driver: 8814au bus ID: 2-2:2 chip ID: 0846:9054 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 551.34 GiB (39.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: CC43 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 130.00 GiB size: 126.90 GiB (97.62%) used: 7.10 GiB (5.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 100.00 GiB size: 97.87 GiB (97.87%) used: 1.19 GiB (1.2%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 0.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
           GPU: device: radeon temp: N/A device: radeon temp: 29 C 
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
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:      Processes: 207 Uptime: 1h 27m Memory: 14.60 GiB used: 1.88 GiB (12.8%) Init: systemd 
           v: 247 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[manyroads]

@manyroads I've been running the 5.14 kernel for about a week now on Fluxbox rc1 with no issues. viewtopic.php?f=115&p=656652#p656652
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FWIW. [complaint] This entire process (of repos & testing) is so much more difficult than it is on an arch distro. :lipsrsealed:. [/complaint]

As a good citizen, I try to live as close to the edge of what works on Debian, just so folks get early stress testing (and because much of what I use can't wait like a good wine to mature/stablize).
Anyway, I'm glad to see you are also having success.