MX-21 beta 1 feedback thread

[dolphin_oracle]

@anticapitalista

Can I request feedback from those running live either from a usb or frugal install.
Particularly for non English set up.

* are the live boot menus localised into your language (legacy and UEFI boot)?

yes

* if so, do they make sense?

there I can't say exactly. the spanish language looked OK to me but I'm not a native speaker

* when setting up persistence, is it localised?

yes

* any bugs running live sessions?

working pretty good. there was a bug reported with languages that set multiple keyboards. es_MX was given as an example. when three keyboards are defined, as in es_MX, the fbxkb indicator fails to load. its the fbxkb app itself with the issue, don't know why. I was only able to reproduce the bug from the UEFI live boot menus.

[i_ri]

Tossing wildflower fling, distraction
Honey, here is a relative story.
The view from here looks just like a posting by Jerry3904 of redbud on the Potomac.
That one is a wildflower, lovely picture.
Our neighbor is a beekeeper.
The bees like our clover; clover grows in the areas mown.
The farms honey is widely distributed in the region.
To some very miniscule small contributing factor of
popular tasting a honey because I mowed.

[asqwerth]

After the latest updates to mx-tweak today, I confirm the icons and themes in $HOME/.local/share can now be detected.

@dolphin_oracle

[DerRoteBlitz]

Hi,

works on Apple hardware out of the box. :-)

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_beta1_x64 Wildflower July 27  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro10,2 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 v: Mac-AFD8A9D944EA4843 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-AFD8A9D944EA4843 v: MacBookPro10,2 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: Apple v: 421.0.0.0.0 date: 12/17/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.8 Wh condition: 68.9/73.9 Wh (93%) volts: 11.1/11.2 
           model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Discharging cycles: 236 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19953 
           Speed: 1270 MHz min/max: 1200/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1249 2: 1296 3: 1278 
           4: 1293 
           Vulnerabilities: 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: 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 status: Vulnerable: No microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Apple driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0166 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 2560x1600~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.5 
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM57786 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe 
           driver: N/A port: efa0 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:16a3 
           Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n 
           vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 14e4:4331 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 233.76 GiB used: 5.94 GiB (2.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Apple model: SSD SM256E size: 233.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 9A1Q 
           scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 224.96 GiB size: 220.38 GiB (97.96%) used: 5.84 GiB (2.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/dm-0 
           ID-2: /boot raw size: 512.0 MiB size: 487.2 MiB (95.16%) used: 103.6 MiB (21.3%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 7.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/dm-1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 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 bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 235 Uptime: 29m Memory: 7.65 GiB used: 1.17 GiB (15.3%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

Many thanks to all involved. This is a fantastic distribution!

br

[agnivo007]

May I ask for an example fstab entry for mounting NTFS partition at boot accessible by any user and shown in thunar pane compatible with this beta?

[chrispop99]

When using Webcamoid with a USB webcam, and the the camera is unplugged whilst the program is active, the camera is subsequently not found when plugged in again. Webcamoid behaves as if no camera is present.
The camera shows up when checked with lsusb.
Deleting the user's Webcamoid config does not fix it.
Purging then reinstalling Webcamoid does not fix it.
Tested with three different hardware systems, and two different webcams.
The problem also affects MX-21 Fluxbox.

The problem does not exist if using Cheese.

Is anyone able to confirm this behaviour please?

Chris

[asqwerth]

@agnivo007

I think NTFS partitions are accessible by all linux users. You don't need to change file permissions if it's formatted as ntfs.


2 alternative fstab entries for a family partition depending on if you used Disk Manager or gnome disk utility (besides MX, no other distro uses Disk Manager now) to autogenerate it:

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# FamilyData partition 
UUID=whatever 	/media/FamilyData	ntfs-3g	defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8	0	0

Note: for read/Write you use ntfs-3g in place of ntfs.
ntfs is read only.


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/dev/disk/by-uuid/whatever /mnt/FamilyData auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

If I'm not mistaken, I then manually changed the /mnt to /media in gnome disk utility after the auto entry was generated.

I actually have no idea if this entry is read only or R/W as I don't write into that partition and I hardly access it. Since I'm currently booted into MX19, I can tell you the Disk Manager entry is R/W.

[Gaer Boy]

More a comment than a question. GParted shows the flag legacy-boot set on my / partition. I haven't seen this before.

[agnivo007]

@Gaer Boy Maybe that was done to improve compatibility with some systems using legacy+gpt style booting.

[agnivo007]

This fstab seems to work fine with samba sharing menu:

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UUID=xxxx /media/roy/STORE ntfs defaults,noatime,nls=utf8,windows_names,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

Didn't set any umask, can read/write to samba share from another PC. I hope default umask is OK in the long run?