MX 25 Beta 1 Feedback thread

[Eadwine Rose]

There is a booboo in the Disk Manager on both XFCE versions: "unknow driver"

ntfs-3g (IIRC) is available in the dropdown list and works fine, that one is a known.





Nvidia responds the same for me on both versions. But the HUGE fonts while booting on the sysvinit version always make me chuckle.. they go bigger on every new release it seems. I can now read them from way back in the yard.

[FullScale4Me]

MX-Tweak 25.09.01mx25 Two issues.

1) When running live on 5 of the ISO requires multiple (3) authentications when clicking Apply. This is after checking multiple items (all but reset lightdm and use intel driver) on the Miscellaneous tab. The AHS (both) edition is slightly different, with just 2 authentications prompted.

2) The 'Enable Bluetooth adapters on boot' filled in checkbox clears (to unchecked) when apply is clicked. This is live and installed (bare metal, the PC in the attached QSI)

[dolphin_oracle]

MX-Tweak 25.09.01mx25 Two issues.

1) When running live on 5 of the ISO requires multiple (3) authentications when clicking Apply. This is after checking multiple items (all but reset lightdm and use intel driver) on the Miscellaneous tab. The AHS (both) edition is slightly different, with just 2 authentications prompted.

2) The 'Enable Bluetooth adapters on boot' filled in checkbox clears (to unchecked) when apply is clicked. This is live and installed (bare metal, the PC in the attached QSI)

thanks.

I haven't been able to duplicate the multiple auth prompts, at least no without modifying policykit settings outside of the app.

a few of the actions do require their own prompts, but the script should be keep auth between them. can you give me a combo that triggers the multible prompts?

the bluetooth thing does appear broken, will look into it! thanks!

[MintHawk]

Using Libre Office Writer to compare two documents, the system froze and I had to kill the process.
The same thing happened momentarily after logging in again (coming back from CTRL+ALT+L) on the KDE edition running Wayland.

[siamhie]

This isn't an issue with MX-25 fluxbox beta but more of a cosmetic issue.

When I install a program using MXPI, there's a padlock/key icon that shows up in my systray but I don't see it happening in the MX-25 XFCE beta testing I'm doing.
I also don't see this icon showing up when I use Synaptic to install programs in MX-25 fluxbox beta.


I would like to know how to disable it. (look for the black key icon at the far right)




QSI

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System:
  Kernel: 6.12.50-x64v3-xanmod1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc
    avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.50-x64v3-xanmod1
    root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Fluxbox v: 1.3.7 tools: avail: light-locker vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
    Distro: MX-25_fluxbox_beta1_x64 Infinity September 21 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B550-A PRO (MS-7C56) v: 2.0 serial: <superuser required>
    uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: A.F0 date: 10/11/2023
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 3 level: v3 note: check
    built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 2
    microcode: 0xA201210
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 16 threads: 32 tpc: 2 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 1024 KiB desc: d-16x32 KiB; i-16x32 KiB L2: 8 MiB desc: 16x512 KiB L3: 64 MiB desc: 2x32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 550 min/max: 550/5084 boost: disabled scaling: driver: amd-pstate-epp
    governor: performance cores: 1: 550 2: 550 3: 550 4: 550 5: 550 6: 550 7: 550 8: 550 9: 550
    10: 550 11: 550 12: 550 13: 550 14: 550 15: 550 16: 550 17: 550 18: 550 19: 550 20: 550 21: 550
    22: 550 23: 550 24: 550 25: 550 26: 550 27: 550 28: 550 29: 550 30: 550 31: 550 32: 550
    bogomips: 217602
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  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: always-on; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsa status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M
    XT] vendor: Tul / PowerColor driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-3
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00") s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
  Monitor-1: DP-3 mapped: DisplayPort-2 model: HP X27q serial: <filter> built: 2021 res:
    mode: 2560x1440 hz: 165 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23")
    diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
    renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (radeonsi navi22 LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.61 6.12.50-x64v3-xanmod1)
    device-ID: 1002:73df memory: 11.72 GiB unified: no
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 3 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
    (RADV NAVI22) driver: mesa radv v: 25.0.7-2 device-ID: 1002:73df surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1
    type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.0.7-2 (LLVM 19.1.7)
    device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo gpu: lact x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Creative Labs CA0132 Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series BlasterX AE-5 Plus]
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0
    chip-ID: 1102:0012 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.50-x64v3-xanmod1 status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.5 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:
  Message: No PCI device data found.
  Device-1: NetGear Wireless_Device driver: mt7921u type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0846:9060 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, nfsd, systemd-networkd, wpa_supplicant
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 8.64 TiB used: 11.35 GiB (0.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G1X0E-00AFY0
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD
    serial: <filter> fw-rev: 613000WD temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G3XHC-00SJG0
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD
    serial: <filter> fw-rev: 102000WD temp: 36.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST8000DM004-2CX188 size: 7.28 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 5425 serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 232.88 GiB size: 228.17 GiB (97.98%) used: 11.31 GiB (5.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 779 MiB size: 777.5 MiB (99.80%) used: 37.6 MiB (4.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 64 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb2
    maj-min: 8:18
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 35.8 C mobo: 34.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 46.0 C mem: 44.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1013
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2303 libs: 1205 tools: apt, apt-get, aptitude, nala, 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/xanmod-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/xanmod-archive-keyring.gpg] http://deb.xanmod.org trixie main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    3: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates  main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_librewolf.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64 arm64] https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.sources
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ trixie main  non-free
    2: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ trixie ahs
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.26 GiB used: 1.93 GiB (6.2%)
  Processes: 488 Power: uptime: 49m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep avail: s2idle
    wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 12.45 GiB
    services: upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.37-release inxi: 3.3.38
Boot Mode: UEFI

[Jerry3904]

@MintHawk Which version of Writer?, 4.25.2.3-2...

[dolphin_oracle]

This isn't an issue with MX-25 fluxbox beta but more of a cosmetic issue.

When I install a program using MXPI, there's a padlock/key icon that shows up in my systray but I don't see it happening in the MX-25 XFCE beta testing I'm doing.
I also don't see this icon showing up when I use Synaptic to install programs in MX-25 fluxbox beta.


I would like to know how to disable it. (look for the black key icon at the far right)

use policykit-1-gnome instead of mate-polkit as your authentication agent.

[Jerry3904]

Hmmm, maybe we should switch then b/c I'd seen it and didn't like it

-installed it
--hunted around to find it
--startup line

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/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

[siamhie]

use policykit-1-gnome instead of mate-polkit as your authentication agent.

Thank you @dolphin_oracle
Installed policykit-1-gnome, adjusted my startup fie and that worked.

I'm loving MX-25 more and more.

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# add root access
#/usr/libexec/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1 &
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

[MintHawk]

@MintHawk Which version of Writer?, 4.25.2.3-2...

25.2.3-2

Also, the sound captured through my Creative Live! Cam V2 is laggy and torn. I tried Webcamoid and Kamoso. Same in both apps on Wayland and X11. This is my sound configuration:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QCGluo ... drive_link