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studioman
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Odd Wi-Fi Problem with different desktop environments, and more

#1 Post by studioman »

Hello, new MXLinux user here, and pretty noob with linux overall too. Hopefully someone can help me with couple of problems!

I have a weird wifi issue with AVLinux MX edition 23.1.

Some background info: I am using about 10 years old Samsung laptop. I tried Ubuntu 22.04.2 and Ubuntu Studio 22.04.2. For some reason wifi was hard-blocked after suspend. Tried literally everything that I could find with google and messed quite a while with terminal but nothing worked. So I switched to ChromeOS Flex and wifi worked as supposed, but had overheating problems (fan wouldn't kick on when needed). And dependency to Google was a turnoff too.

So now I decided to try AVLinux. Everything works great with default Enlightenment desktop environment. But it's a little messy and confusing for me so I installed Budgie from MX Package Installer. As a long time Mac user it felt great and clean.

1) But now the problem: Wifi works in Budgie, but when I click the network/wifi button in panel it says network manager is not available. Same thing when I check network settings. But Wifi and internet connection still works! But I can't change the network or add a new network. Any suggestions?

I have no idea if my old wifi problems have anything to do with this new one, but decided to tell the whole story. :)

2) Also, backlight of the screen turns off in login prompt and brightness buttons do nothing (outside login screen they work fine)... I had to turn automatic login off to change desktop environment and needed a flashlight to write login info to get things going.

3) And another question: I have 2 graphic cards in this laptop. How to change primary graphics card to better Nvidia one? I tried NvidiaX Server settings, but it says that server is not running..

Thanks in advance for the possible help! Here's my system info:

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ystem:
  Kernel: 6.6.9-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.6-11~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.9-1-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro threadirqs quiet
  Desktop: Enlightenment v: 0.25.4 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: AVL_MXE-23.1-20240120_x64
    Enlightened January 15 2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: 450R5G/450R5U v: P04RCA serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: SAMSUNG model: NP450R5G-X06SE v: SEC_SW_REVISION_1234567890ABCD
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P04RCA.011.140213.QX date: 02/13/2014
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 43.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 43.3/43.1 Wh (100.5%) volts: 12.9 min: 11.4
    model: SAMSUNG Electronics SR Real Battery type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: full cycles: 26
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-3230M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge gen: core 3 level: v2
    built: 2012-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3041 high: 3186 min/max: 1200/2601 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 3186 2: 2998 3: 2993 4: 2988 bogomips: 20754
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  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: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB
    filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Samsung Co driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-7 process: Intel 22nm built: 2012-13 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M]
    vendor: Samsung Co driver: nvidia v: 390.157 non-free: series: 390.xx+ status: legacy-active
    (EOL~late 2022) arch: Fermi code: GF1xx process: 40/28nm built: 2010-16 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1140 class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Silicon Motion WebCam SC-10HDD12636N type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.4:4
    chip-ID: 2232:1041 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: enlightenment
    driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99") s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x15b8 built: 2012 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101
    gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  API: OpenGL v: 4.2 Mesa 23.1.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Samsung Co 7
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.9-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Samsung Co
    driver: ath9k v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 168c:0036 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Samsung Co
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.3:7
    chip-ID: 0cf3:3004 class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: hardware: no
    software: yes address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1022:8 sco-mtu: 183:5 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff
    link-mode: peripheral accept
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 25.98 GiB (11.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0103 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 223.32 GiB size: 218.75 GiB (97.96%) used: 25.98 GiB (11.9%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 3 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2658 libs: 1514 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,synaptic pm: rpm pkgs: 0
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  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 bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 326 Uptime: 17h 23m wakeups: 6 Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 2.48 GiB (32.4%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
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Re: Odd Wi-Fi Problem with different desktop environments, and more

#2 Post by siamhie »

AVL-MXe uses connman and not network manager.

For the backlight issue, try this in Enlightenment.


Enlightenment settings > Look > Compositor > General > check mark the box Don't fade backlight
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Re: Odd Wi-Fi Problem with different desktop environments, and more

#3 Post by studioman »

Thanks! Backlight issue seems fixed.

Is there a GUI to connman that works in Budgie? Preferably an applet to top bar but just something to change networks would also suffice. I can manage with Enlightenment but perhaps not the best for me.

It seems that networkmanager doesn't behave well with my computer, since there was issues with Ubuntu but not with current system that has connman.

Any hint to enabling Nvidia graphics instead of Intel HD graphics?

And one more: Closing lid doesn't enable suspend. I couldn't find setting for it. It could be that in AVLinux it is disabled by default..?
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Re: Odd Wi-Fi Problem with different desktop environments, and more

#4 Post by Charlie Brown »

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sudo apt install cmst -y
Then make sure it's in autostart ( cmst -m to make it start minimized to panel / tray )
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studioman
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Re: Odd Wi-Fi Problem with different desktop environments, and more

#5 Post by studioman »

Thanks Charlie Brown! Cmst works fine.

I found that I can open apps via terminal with Nvidia graphics enabled. https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/2-graphics-drivers/ But is there a way to enable it globally and always use the better Nvidia chip?

Intel chip seems to currently render the internal screen:

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99") s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x15b8 built: 2012 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101
gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: OpenGL v: 4.2 Mesa 23.1.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
direct-render: Yes
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Re: Odd Wi-Fi Problem with different desktop environments, and more

#6 Post by Charlie Brown »

Some bioses have the option to enable / disable cards .
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