MX-19.2 KDE Beta 2 Feedback Thread

[dolphin_oracle]

On every system startup or reboot, everything goes well until the logon screen is displayed. It is displayed for a split-second, screen is blanked to black, and then the logon screen is re-displayed.

To the best of my knowledge, I've not made any changes to the boot-up process other than to edit /etc/default/grub to remove the "quite splash" from the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT parameter.

This is installed as the only O/S on the system and is installed on bare-metal.

Here's my QSI:

Code: Select all

System:    Host: SagerKDEB2 Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-2-amd64 
           root=UUID=d2c61003-1f2e-4841-9464-115a2b829c78 ro 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-19.2_KDE-beta2_x64 patito feo July 5  2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Notebook product: W65_67SZ v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 9 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Notebook model: W65_67SZ serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.03.05RLS1 
           date: 03/13/2014 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 56.3 Wh condition: 56.3/62.2 Wh (91%) volts: 12.8/11.1 model: Notebook BAT 
           type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M510 serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) 
           rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4710MQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell family: 6 
           model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 39911 
           Speed: 2625 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2625 2: 1921 3: 2333 4: 2247 
           5: 2127 6: 2947 7: 2392 8: 2546 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
           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: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: i915 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0416 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa compositor: kwin_x11 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.0.7 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0c0c 
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:8c20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-2-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 04:00.0 
           chip ID: 8086:08b1 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 05:00.2 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 69.96 GiB (15.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 90WD scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 20.00 GiB size: 19.56 GiB (97.81%) used: 7.16 GiB (36.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 429.51 GiB size: 421.77 GiB (98.20%) used: 62.40 GiB (14.8%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda4 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 16.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
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 buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 267 Uptime: 2m Memory: 15.57 GiB used: 925.1 MiB (5.8%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 
           runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

There's not a problem, that's how we have it set to work under sysVinit.

[srq2625]

There's not a problem, that's how we have it set to work under sysVinit.

Good to know. Thanks.

[tony37]

If you really want some kind of major problem from me: my Wifi isn't working.
But that's because I have an RTL8723DE chipset (on HP laptop 17-ak0xx). But I was hoping it would work because starting from kernel 5.4 I don't need any extra wifi modules on Kubuntu nor on Mint Xfce. On top of this https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git seems offline, so can't test whether it would work with those drivers added. Would be wonderful if you could make this work like Ubuntu derivatives nowadays do (maybe something for other topic as this applies to xfce too of course).
Bluetooth seems fine though.

(Extra Muon ranting: it can't search on package name only. I know it looks more polished than Synaptic but that's about it. At least it can install Synaptic, the latter can't do that...)

[tony37]

I found out I have to use lwfinger/rtw88 now. Wifi works fine after:

Code: Select all

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88.git
cd rtw88
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rtw_8723de

no reboot needed and building kernel modules didn't take as irritatingly long as it used to do on Kubuntu

[tony37]

Another definitely non-major issue, but I'll mention it anyway:
I don't know if you're aware of this, but on first boot the favorites in the menu are: Conky Toggle, LibreOffice, MX Tools, MX Package Installer, MX User Manual, Konsole, Ksysguard and Quick System Info. But when I switch the 'Application Launcher' to something else ('Menu' or 'Dashboard') I have Firefox, System Settings, Dolphin and Kate added to this list (which is actually standard Plasma behavior). And when I switch back to the 'Launcher' they are still there, all of which may not be intended. And having Kate like this in the menu favorites creates a tiny conflict with having Kwrite as the default text program, because people may not realize they're using a different program. Personally I prefer Kate, maybe just because it has tabs, but in this version (18.08) it doesn't seem to integrate with programs like Kompare or Kdiff3, which is a little bummer. There's nothing really wrong with Kwrite but some may think it superfluous when you have Kate. Slightly confusing for beginners may be that Kate opens everything in the same window, so when you close that, your other text files are closed too, which may not be intuitive.

[Gerson]

Today after applying the MX Tweak update; the session was closed and when I come back I get that notification about the /home:
"The file system mounted on /home is not responding"
On reboot it was corrected.

[torxxl]

Bonjour,
Comme pour les version précédente, si je choisi français suisse dans l'installation, l'instalation est en anglais.
Si je choisi france, l'installation est en français.
Mais une partie de MX est en anglais et je dois installer plusieurs paquets (ceux qui apparaissent quand je cherche french dans l'instalateur de paquet)
De plus, les depots qui sont proposés une fois l'installation terminée ne fonctionnent pas, je dois systématiquement allez dans l'utilitaire de choix de dépots pour trouver un dépot qui fonctionne.
J'ai ces bugs aussi sous xfce et sur les anciennent versions.
Peut-être car je suis Suisse.

Hello,
As for the previous versions, if I choose Swiss French in the installation, the installation is in English.
If I choose France, the installation is in French.
But a part of MX is in English and I have to install several packages (the ones that appear when I search for french in the package installer)
Moreover, the repositories which are proposed once the installation is finished do not work, I must systematically go in the utility of choice of repositories to find a repository which works.
I have these bugs also under xfce and on older versions.
Maybe because I'm Swiss.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[Eadwine Rose]

Please provide an English translation when you are posting in a foreign language. Thank you.

Veuillez fournir une traduction en anglais lorsque vous êtes en poste dans une langue étrangère. Merci.

[asqwerth]

What was the modification in the virtualbox-guest-utils-modified-init package?

When I installed Beta 2 (real metal) and tried to run Virtualbox on the same, my VM (manjaro kde) kept flickering and flashing whenever I scrolled dolphin or webpages using the mouse. If I clicked on various places on the screen, the flashing might also happen.

I didn't face this issue in the alphas (didn't install VB in Beta 1).

[dolphin_oracle]

What was the modification in the virtualbox-guest-utils-modified-init package?

When I installed Beta 2 (real metal) and tried to run Virtualbox on the same, my VM (manjaro kde) kept flickering and flashing whenever I scrolled dolphin or webpages using the mouse. If I clicked on various places on the screen, the flashing might also happen.

I didn't face this issue in the alphas (didn't install VB in Beta 1).

the init script shipped with b2 did not have the lines for using vmsvga.

however, that init script only runs inside a VM. in other words, if your host is MX, and your VM is manjaro, we didn't touch anything with the update.