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Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:34 pm
by agnivo007
I might have removed stuff that tango icons were linked to, however faenza had no links as I remember and removing it shaved off 80MB.
Overall, nice build. Thanks.
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:18 am
by agnivo007
Okay, might be unrelated, but need some help.
What is the plymouth theme that is used when live iso boots? Cyan and yellow color scheme, text based info along with progressing dots?
Can anyone point me to the download or the theme name or even a zip file of the theme folder please?
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:06 am
by asqwerth
That's not plymouth at all. It's something in-house.
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:39 am
by agnivo007
Care to share if that can be had instead of naked boot by default given it's not plymouth theme?
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:55 am
by asqwerth
You'll have to wait for dolphin, anticapitalista, mybe fehlix or bitjam to come online to explain.
It's called tsplash and meant only for the live system. As I understand it, the live system does not use grub to boot up so if one wanted something other than the normal scrolling text during boot, we couldn't use plymouth. I have no idea if the converse is possible, ie using tsplash when booting with grub.
First introduced in MX19.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-19-patito-feo-released/
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:30 am
by agnivo007
Thanks asquerth, looking forward for more dev. explanations. (for understanding and learning)
In the meantime, I found a good collection of small plymouth themes with lots of OEM logos.
Here:
https://github.com/gevera/plymouth_themes
Looks like a great match for underpowered hardware. Installed the HP logo one, looks good so far on the HP Thin Client T610!
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:46 am
by dolphin_oracle
Right now the live text boot splash is only on the live system.
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:54 am
by tony37
asqwerth wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:55 am
As I understand it, the live system does not use grub to boot up so if one wanted something other than the normal scrolling text during boot, we couldn't use plymouth.
I think the live system has its own grub. If you open the .iso with an archive tool, it's in /boot/grub
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:23 am
by dolphin_oracle
the live system uses syslinux for legacy booting and grub for UEFI booting.
we do not include plymouth in the live initrd, preferring to keep the live initrd as close as possible to antiX.
Re: Feedback thread for MX-Base ISO's
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:56 am
by Justinian
I got MX-19.2_flux_base_386 as a replacement for MX-19.2_August_386 on a Pentium M laptop with no hard drive. This time I was able to create a fully live USB system instead of read-only via dd in Maker. Tested first on a Core2 Duo and then brought to the laptop where Flux went up in just a minute and a half. Was impressed with how fast Firefox 81 launched. After adding SMPlayer this stick will be the perfect system for the laptop.
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System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 4.19.0-11-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: quiet splasht nosplash
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19.2_flux_base_386 patito feo Sept 28 2020
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
model: ARIMA S62044L type: Unknown serial: <filter> status: Charging
CPU: Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan
family: 6 model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 1196
Speed: 600 MHz min/max: 600/1600 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 600
Graphics: Device-1: AMD RV410/M26 [Mobility Radeon X700] vendor: Rioworks driver: radeon
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:5653
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: ATI RV410 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Drives: Local Storage: total: 28.90 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (4.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 28.90 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 774.0 MiB used: 27.6 MiB (3.6%) fs: overlay
source: ERR-102
Info: Processes: 148 Uptime: 2m Memory: 1000.2 MiB used: 260.6 MiB (26.1%) Init: SysVinit
v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in
running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36