MX-21 "ahs" (Xfce) RC1 feedback

[Jamesthedisciple]

@Jamesthedisciple thank you, should be helpful in narrowing down the issue more.

All good. happy to test and give feedback if needed.

I've been trying to narrow down the TLP battery issue. With MX19 it worked fine, even booting into other distros it held. But now, even devuan/artix/gentoo wont change it either! It's almost as if something has locked the settings.

[davemx]

Another problem with the MX21-ahs-RC1. I've got an external USB-3 powered DVD Recorder/Player and I can play a video DVD in it using MX21-KDE-RC1 and vlc, it works perfectly. But in the ahs/xfce version, nothing. When I put in the DVD, there is no response and vlc cannot find it. This is with both sys-v and systemd. My hardware printout is at reply #46 above.

[dolphin_oracle]

for those with suspend issues, please try the linux-image-5.14.0-3mx-amd64 kernel now in the ahs repo.

[SwampRabbit]

@davemx so the only thing different between MX-21 KDE RC1 and the Xfce AHS RC version is Xfce and the kernel.

Does Thunar detect the drive at least?

Does it show with the lsusb command?

I have an external USB DVD drive somewhere I can test with.

[davemx]

BOTH ISSUES:

@davemx so the only thing different between MX-21 KDE RC1 and the Xfce AHS RC version is Xfce and the kernel.

Does Thunar detect the drive at least?

Does it show with the lsusb command?

I have an external USB DVD drive somewhere I can test with.

This is weird. I updated the kernel in the hope of fixing the suspend issues, but it made no difference at all. But now the external DVD is working! It showed up in both Thunar and vlc, and sometimes in the MX-unmounter — when it doesn't, right clicking on the MX-unmounter icon in system tray, and selecting List Devices, then brings it into the MX-unmounter list. May be some kind of co-incidence.

Since SDDM had to be hacked to work correctly without systemd, perhaps gdm has to be, too? The top 1/3 of the screen, looks like a re-arranged version of the gdm screen.

[SwampRabbit]

Since SDDM had to be hacked to work correctly without systemd, perhaps gdm has to be, too? The top 1/3 of the screen, looks like a re-arranged version of the gdm screen.

Can you please clarify, this is the second time you’ve said GDM. You should have LightDM as your QSI shows, unless you changed something.

[davemx]

MORE ON THE SUSPEND ISSUE:

It's a display issue, for sure. I suspended the computer again. When it came back to the re-arranged LightDM screen, I pressed CTRL-ALT-F2 and logged in as root (fortunately I had created a root password at install). The text screen was readable though it was shifted to the right. I typed in the command "pm-hibernate" and the computer halted. On restart it came back to the same root text screen, but now it was in the right place. I pressed CTRL-ALT-F7 and my desktop was there!

... oh and sorry, I meant the standard DM used, if that's LightDM. I haven't changed it.

[dolphin_oracle]

@davemx what kernel did you upgrade to.

I think when the display driver crashes, lightdm reverts to resolutions provided by the framebuffer of the hardware. On my laptop, that is a fairly low resolution and lightdm shows up larger than the available display, so most of my items push off screen.

[oldman568]

Installed on home built PC with Intel G4560 CPU , AMDRX560 graphics card , all good so far..
Usb dongle Wifi on Realtek chipset works out of the box ,yay !

Though strangely, my older USB Netgear adapter WG111 v2 says "Internet now disconnected"
when i try to connect ,similar to that T-mobile 3g dongle error i used to get when connecting.
First time i've seen that with a proper net wifi dongle.
That's the old adapter i normally use on linux when the Realtek doesn't work.
Doesn't matter too much as Realtek is working ok now.

I have an external USB DVD drive ,just tried playing Sin City movie and it seems to play ok via VLC (USB3 +USB2) ,just have to select dvd in the VLC menu..
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Just plugged in some different USB TV dongles ,tried with a kaffeine install.

Astrometa USB TV dongle working ok , seems to have the full driver/firmware in the OS ready to go ,great news.

Just got the XboxOne USB TV tuner working ok as well ,all channels ok from Crystal Place UK London transmitter.
Seems to have the firmware ready to go apart from one file missing.
Plug in the dongle and if you get this error:
"Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-mn88472-02.fw failed with error -2"

Then run these 2 lines in a terminal:
wget http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmw ... 8472-02.fw
sudo cp dvb-demod-mn88472-02.fw /lib/firmware/

Channel scan in kaffeine working ok straight after adding that firmware file.
Source (about a third of the way down page):
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2336566
Watching BBC news atmo.

That's good news, 2 USB TV dongles working with next to zero issues.
I'll try my 3rd Avermedia USB TV dongle tomorrow.
edit:
H831 Avermedia Hybrid Volar T2 does not work on linux !

Forgot about that ,it's never had support on linux.
Good tv dongle but only for Windows.

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Sidenote:
Built-in OS updater has updated about 5 times since i installed the OS.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.14.0-2mx-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.0-2mx-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_ahs_rc1_x64 Wildflower October 10  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: Z270 GAMING PLUS (MS-7A75) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.60 date: 07/05/2018 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G4560 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
           family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: EA L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 27999 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; 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 mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 550 640SP / RX 560/560X] vendor: Gigabyte 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:67ff 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: amdgpu,ati 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: 
           renderer: Radeon RX 560 Series (POLARIS11 DRM 3.42.0 5.14.0-2mx-amd64 LLVM 12.0.1) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a2f0 
           Device-2: AMD Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / RX 560/560X] 
           vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aae0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.14.0-2mx-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e v: kernel 
           port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15b8 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek 802.11ac NIC type: USB driver: rtl8821cu bus ID: 1-3:2 
           chip ID: 0bda:c811 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 10.22 TiB used: 5.30 TiB (51.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWE150 size: 4.55 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: FP1R scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: B1D1 scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Toshiba model: HDWE160 size: 5.46 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: FS2A scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 21.42 GiB size: 20.91 GiB (97.64%) used: 8.24 GiB (39.4%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 37 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1332 
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://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:      Processes: 235 Uptime: 48m Memory: 15.60 GiB used: 1.51 GiB (9.7%) 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 

[davemx]

kernel = 5.14.0-3mx-amd64

I've changed the settings so that on return from suspend it skips LightDM and goes straight back to the desktop. The desktop is all wrong. The bottom 2/3 is just black, and in the top 1/3 there are two oblong shapes flashing. Could be alternate lines of the intended desktop display. It's as if it's displaying via the wrong desktop settings, and if there was some way of correcting that, it would solve the issue.