dolphin_oracle's respins (updated June 23, 2024)

[l0dr3]

I did manage to get WiFi working by installing a 6.4 kernel from mx-package manager, but still no bluetooth. I tried renaming the ibt*4150 files to ibt*1050 but no change to behavior, it still won't load firmware.

@a_freed_man , plz open a new thread in the 'Help' subforum, where i can assist you, in finding the right firmware combination for your specific AX101 chipset.

THIS problem is not related to D_O's respin, its a problem that occurs on almost all distros and derivates ...

greetz

l0dr3

[ceeslans]

messing around with a spin that only includes sysVinit. oddly, plymouth (the boot splash daemon) is proving to be a challenge.

@dolphin_oracle hope you won't hold back on releasing such sysvinit-only respin, only because of a plymouth issue;
I for one (as others probably do too) enjoy scrolling boot text....

[dolphin_oracle]

messing around with a spin that only includes sysVinit. oddly, plymouth (the boot splash daemon) is proving to be a challenge.

@dolphin_oracle hope you won't hold back on releasing such sysvinit-only respin, only because of a plymouth issue;
I for one (as others probably do too) enjoy scrolling boot text....

I have a working prototype. will probably get something done this weekend if I have the time.

[dolphin_oracle]

MX 23 sysVinit-only resipin is up, Full version of MX-23 64 bit, with systemd removed. elogind, libelogind, and libpam-elogind are utilized to fill those session management requirements.

Link to my mx-23 based respins is in the first post.

[BitterTruth]

Many thanks DO. Recommend you adjust the title to reflect the new date.

[BitterTruth]

Forgot to mention a headsup for anyone trying this before I get a chance to:

On the login screen, are the power options (hibernate, suspend, restart, shutdown) available or greyed out?
I think it's an issue with lightdm but I think Stevo backported version 1.32.0-3 (test repos) which is supposed to solve it.

Update:
@dolphin_oracle Just installed it and can confirm that power options are greyed out on login screen. Default installed version of lightdm is 1.26.

I removed 1.26 and installed lightdm_1.32.0-3~mx23+1_amd64.deb from the test repo:
mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/pool/test/l/lightdm/lightdm_1.32.0-3~mx23+1_amd64.deb

and now buttons are available.

A couple of other 'issues'. I'm still seeing a lot of output at boot even though 'quiet splash' is there. Second I thought there was in issue with volume but it seems to have resolved itself. Muted icon and no option to turn it on when right clicking. A reboot seems to have sorted it though. Don't know what that was about.

[dolphin_oracle]

pipewire has issues. working on it.

thanks for hte info on the test lightdm. I fixed it on revised isos a different way, but that is probably better than what I did. will check it out, but revised isos that "fix" the pipewire issue are up.

**actually uploading a new one with the test repo lightdm. I like its solution better than mine.

[BitterTruth]

No problem. Thanks to you for working on it on your weekend. Do you guys ever take a break? lol.

Yes it's part of a bug/patch which they fixed in 1.32. Something to do with a dependancy on logind:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=932047

We told Stevo about it and he kindly backported 1.32 to testing.
The sound issue was only a glitch it seems, since it's worked well after that. I'll be interested to see what the pipewire fix brings.
The 'quiet splash' is working now as well but something's overriding the /e/d/grub file and subsequent update-grub. Disabling os-prober in grub using:
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="true"

has no effect. Still runs and detects other OSes. Update-grub doesn't display the traditional warnings about it being on/off either. I will play around with it a bit more before I download the newer iso. Many thanks again.

[rgif]

Do you do anything specific with power management in your systemd only respin? I've installed the offical KDE iso and systemd won't suspend my laptop properly. I have a forum post about it.

Once I installed your systemd only version it seemed to work exactly as expected, so I'm not sure what the difference is between the two but something is configured differently.

[dolphin_oracle]

Do you do anything specific with power management in your systemd only respin? I've installed the offical KDE iso and systemd won't suspend my laptop properly. I have a forum post about it.

Once I installed your systemd only version it seemed to work exactly as expected, so I'm not sure what the difference is between the two but something is configured differently.

nothing but an updated kernel.