MX-19 Beta 2.1 Feedback

[Don_in_Vermont]

I am running 2.1 beta and have no issues. Reused /home and everything went well.

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System:    Host: ThinkCentre-M92p-2 Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
           v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19beta-2.1_x64 patito feo September 8  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 3212CF7 v: ThinkCentre M92p serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: MAHOBAY v: NOK serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 9SKT9BAUS 
           date: 07/17/2018 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3550 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 26339 
           Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1600/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1596 3: 1596 
           4: 1596 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           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: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM] 
           vendor: Bitland Information driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 1002:6779 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-6-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k 
           port: f040 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:1502 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 13.98 GiB (1.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: CC57 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 32.23 GiB size: 31.47 GiB (97.65%) used: 5.75 GiB (18.3%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 867.06 GiB size: 852.45 GiB (98.32%) used: 8.23 GiB (1.0%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 32.23 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 39 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main
           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/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 203 Uptime: 1h 33m Memory: 7.72 GiB used: 1.17 GiB (15.2%) 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: 3.0.33 

[fehlix]

Fixed one thing broke another! My bad.

OK, give us a signal when a version is out to test, as I just tested with 19.9.03 on the ISO, but prefer not to report, as my finding might already have been fixed.

19.09.03 has one set of problems, 19.09.05 has a different set. but we think we have a plan, probably.

Does the solution plan cover the issues related to the not yet fully fixed automount issue. If not I might prepare a report and a tested solution, prefable within another dev thread. If yes, I prefer rather to re-test the implemented solution....

[dolphin_oracle]

OK, give us a signal when a version is out to test, as I just tested with 19.9.03 on the ISO, but prefer not to report, as my finding might already have been fixed.

19.09.03 has one set of problems, 19.09.05 has a different set. but we think we have a plan, probably.

Does the solution plan cover the issues related to the not yet fully fixed automount issue. If not I might prepare a report and a tested solution, prefable within another dev thread. If yes, I prefer rather to re-test the implemented solution....

that depends on what you are talking about.

I patched yesterday to keep automount disabled even if someone runs gparted from inside the installer (gparted would still trigger automounts when it closed, mostly because it disabled our disabling, if you catch my meaning.)

[fehlix]

19.09.03 has one set of problems, 19.09.05 has a different set. but we think we have a plan, probably.

Does the solution plan cover the issues related to the not yet fully fixed automount issue. If not I might prepare a report and a tested solution, prefable within another dev thread. If yes, I prefer rather to re-test the implemented solution....

that depends on what you are talking about.

I patched yesterday to keep automount disabled even if someone runs gparted from inside the installer (gparted would still trigger automounts when it closed, mostly because it disabled our disabling, if you catch my meaning.)

Right, that was one part which I tested. So I might take the latest and see what it does.

[bubba66]

Installed on my Linx 1010B

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System:    Host: djh Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19beta-2.1_x64 patito feo September 8  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LINX product: LINX1010B v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Type2 - Board model: Type2 - Board Product Name v: Type2 - Board Version 
           serial: <filter> UEFI: INSYDE v: LINX1010B.R22.03.010 date: 07/24/2015 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Atom Z3735F bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Silvermont 
           family: 6 model-id: 37 (55) stepping: 8 microcode: 838 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 10662 
           Speed: 1493 MHz min/max: 500/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 601 2: 544 3: 500 4: 500 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display driver: i915 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0f31 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 800x1280~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Bay Trail v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio 
           message: bus/chip ids unavailable 
           Device-2: bytcr-rt5640 driver: bytcr-rt5640 message: bus/chip ids unavailable 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Message: No Device data found. 
           IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 58.84 GiB used: 27.80 GiB (47.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 model: 032G72 size: 29.12 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 0x7 scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/mmcblk2 model: SC32G size: 29.72 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B serial: <filter> scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 26.84 GiB size: 26.29 GiB (97.96%) used: 5.41 GiB (20.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 768 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/mmcblk1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main
           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/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 199 Uptime: 26m Memory: 1.89 GiB used: 531.9 MiB (27.5%) 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: 3.0.33 

Everything is working except the screen brightness, this is the first time I have managed to install MX Linux on this device and I have not looked into the brightness issue yet, will update when I have.

This device has a 32bit efi and a 64bit cpu, so I generally have to do a lot of messing around to get anything other than Fedora up and running on it; MX 19 Beta 2.1 booted straight up - brilliant.

Update - I have not had success with the screen back light yet, I have discovered that the system does not recognise the battery whereby there is no discharge data. I am working on this, but any suggestions would be appreciated.

I have noted that brightness control does work when I boot to the Live environment.

Changed the kernel to 5.2.0-13.3-liquorix-amd64 from MX Package installer and I now have battery discharge data; now to work on the screen back light adjustment.

I found and installed a useful utility "brightness-controller-simple" I now have control of my brightness outside of CLI, however, not on the keyboard buttons, but it is a solution for now.

Thanks

[entropyfoe]

I downloaded the beta 2.1, md5 was good, so I burned it to the USB and installed. Live everything worked so I hit install, and 10 minutes later I was in the rebooted beta 2.1.
The install was normal, I used existing partitions, grub and install to root on my 4th 100G partition I use for testing.

First nvidia. I used the MX tools nvidia installer, no check for updates or backports. Installed and I rebooted to see an error message-

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KVM: disable by BIOS

That repeated maybe 115 lines, then something about a watchdog timer. Then the boot proceeded normally. A fresh boot weighs in at 518mB of RAM.

Then I tweaked the panel, added my data drive with disk manager, changed wallpaper, replaced conky with antiX, making 4 small tweaks.
Did synaptic updates, added 129 packages (including all the dependencies).
Customized firefox, all working youtube, sound, wired eth0.

I saw a mention of the MX time utility being new.
So I tried that. In the network tab, when I do a ntp synch, the new one does not show the offset that was changed. The old MX time would show the offset after running.

So, in summary, looks good, just that KVM: disable by BIOS error and the time synch not giving the offset.
I will make a few more tweaks tonight and test for stability. Before I installed, the beta1 had 9 days uptime with no crashes or hangs. So MX buster is looking solid.

[rej]

Due to various issues caused by Grub Customiser, it will not be a default program on the MX iso. Its use is not recommended. Use MX Boot Options for the basic grub settings tweaks. If you still want to use Grub Customiser, you'll have to install it yourself.

White line issue - Pls post a screenshot here.

Thank you, will try MX Boot Options

[Eadwine Rose]

TVtime, image is just fine, sound is VERY crackled. Just verified in Windows that sound is normal there, so it has to do with something in MX19beta2.1. I set pulseaudio up just like I did in MX18.3 and I THINK (iirc) that 19 beta1 was performing fine as well on those settings.

What changed, because that apparently messes something up on 19 beta2.1.

Hardware info:

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System:    Host: eadwinemx19beta2.1 Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
           v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19beta-2.1_x64 patito feo September 8  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF B450-PLUS GAMING v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1607 date: 06/17/2019 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball 
           serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes 
           status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ 
           family: 17 (23) model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 800820C L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 102195 
           Speed: 1512 MHz min/max: 1550/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1538 
           2: 1432 3: 1475 4: 1545 5: 1374 6: 1468 7: 1546 8: 1546 9: 1377 10: 1378 11: 1374 
           12: 1375 13: 1546 14: 1546 15: 1542 16: 1397 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 418.74 
           bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c82 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nvidia 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.74 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Conexant Systems CX23887/8 PCIe Broadcast Audio and Video Decoder with 3D 
           Comb 
           vendor: Hauppauge works driver: cx23885 v: 0.0.4 bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 14f1:8880 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fb9 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 0a:00.3 chip ID: 1022:1457 
           Device-4: Logitech QuickCam E 3500 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           bus ID: 3-1:2 chip ID: 046d:09a4 serial: <filter> 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: mt7601u bus ID: 1-1:2 
           chip ID: 148f:7601 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 67.11 GiB (3.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Seagate model: BUP Slim RD size: 931.51 GiB 
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 0109 scheme: MBR 
           ID-5: /dev/sde vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 58.59 GiB size: 57.42 GiB (98.00%) used: 5.83 GiB (10.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sdc1 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 166.48 GiB size: 162.87 GiB (97.83%) used: 138.3 MiB (0.1%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc3 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sdc2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.1 C mobo: 27.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 636 fan-2: 863 fan-3: 0 fan-4: 779 fan-6: 0 gpu: nvidia 
           fan: 25% 
           Voltages: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.36 vbat: 3.27 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main
           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/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 471 Uptime: 2m Memory: 31.41 GiB used: 1.06 GiB (3.4%) 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: 3.0.33 

I just tried something suggested by AK-47, which was download the beta2.

Booted that liveUSB, didn't do anything to it, just installed tvtime and ran it and that was that.
Image and sound worked like a peach.
Installed the codecs and tested again, all was fine.

Booted the 2.1 liveUSB, just installed tvtime and ran it.
Image is fine, sound cracklecracklecrackle.

Something changed between 2 and 2.1 that is causing issues with tvtime here.

[dolphin_oracle]

the kernel, and therefore the audio drivers, are new on beta 2.1

the kernel on beta 2.1 is the current debian stable kernel.

[Eadwine Rose]

ok.. then I wager I am going to be a victim of having to run an older kernel or different audio drivers?