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Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:04 pm**

Who calls a cat "babe"?

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:17 pm**

Bamber wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:04 pm Who calls a cat "babe"?

I did. The Toronto Humane Society, where I adopted her, told me that she had been rescued from a golf course. Naming her after Babe Didrickson, an illustrious female golfer seemed as appropriate then as it does now.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:18 pm**

Sounds like a very fitting name to me. :)

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:27 pm**

Maybe she destroys computers because she doesn't like the name.
I named my now deceased cat Vladimir. If I'll ever have a she cat I'll name her Pandora.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:00 pm**

Bamber wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:27 pm Maybe she destroys computers because she doesn't like the name.
I named my now deceased cat Vladimir. If I'll ever have a she cat I'll name her Pandora.

No it's because she's a Maine Coon Tortoiseshell Cross and a big (17.5 lb), feisty lady. I wouldn't have her any other way.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2023 11:10 am**

Time to get back on topic. I've had some time to think on how to describe this laptop's behaviour when it was running the 6.0 and 6.1 kernels. It was like there was a IRQ war happening behind the scenes with apps and services randomly starting and stopping. Here's a good example: When using the default AHS version of MX XFCE, Network Assistant did not display the 'WL' driver even though the corresponding QSI showed that it was loaded. When I rebooted with SystemD enabled, Network Assistant did show the 'WL' driver and then when I blacklisted that driver, Wi-Fi and audio immediately started working, but my mouse became unresponsive and my touchpad started working (even though I had previously disabled it).

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:11 pm**

I'm now using the 5.19 kernel. The on-board wifi card only rarely connects to my router and I solved that problem by picking up a used NetGear AC122 usb dongle which works perfectly. Audio sort of works. I can have both the speakers and the headphones on at the same time or off at the same time, but I can't have the headphones working independently of the speakers. I did install the Sound Switcher app but it doesn't have effect on this rig. Everything else seems to be working OK.

here's the current QSI:

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System:    Kernel: 5.19.0-2mx-amd64 [5.19.11-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.19.0-2mx-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower September 18  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-ef2xxx v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 887A v: 59.17 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.25 date: 07/05/2022 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.9 
           min: 11.3 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Not charging 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 8608103 cache: 
           L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 41524 
           Speed: 1428 MHz min/max: 1400/2600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1428 
           2: 1331 3: 1515 4: 1697 5: 1528 6: 1397 7: 1701 8: 1700 
           Vulnerabilities: 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: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection 
           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, STIBP: always-on, RSB 
           filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 
           chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB 
           driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 30c9:0013 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 395mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.47.0 5.19.0-2mx-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor 
           driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x 
           bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-2mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce port: f000 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: NetGear A6150 type: USB driver: N/A bus-ID: 3-2:2 chip-ID: 0846:9055 
           class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:4 
           chip-ID: 0bda:b00c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: 
           hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 30.83 GiB (6.5%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital 
           model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS2 
           temp: 26.9 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 468.68 GiB size: 460.25 GiB (98.20%) used: 30.83 GiB (6.7%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2011 lib: 1004 flatpak: 0 
           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
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info:      Processes: 260 Uptime: 4h 8m wakeups: 2839 Memory: 7.1 GiB used: 1.83 GiB (25.8%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:48 am**

I reinstalled Win 11. Last night it crashed and I had to do a power off shutdown and then this morning I could only get on line with a wired connection. The problem with this laptop is that it is too new and Linux (in general) hasn't caught up yet. My plan now is to continue with Win 11 (because I need a working laptop) and test the monthly snapshots until I find one that works well. I still have my backup machine, the Aspire V5, and I have just acquired an Acer Aspire XC-866-EB11 desktop from the estate of a friend who recently passed away. It's got the KDE version of MX installed, which I'm trying to get familiar with.

Posted: **Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:35 pm**

I'm back in business. The Liquorix 6.2.6 kernel is working great. (thanks Steve0 and timkb4cq). Win 11 was driving me insane.

Here's my current QSI:

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Snapshot created on: 20230320_1434
System:    Kernel: 6.2.6-1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable hpet=disable rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 
           BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.2.6-1-liquorix-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower March 20  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-ef2xxx v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 887A v: 59.21 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.27 date: 10/20/2022 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.8 
           min: 11.3 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 8608104 cache: 
           L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 41523 
           Speed: 2220 MHz min/max: 1400/2600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1640 
           2: 1338 3: 1697 4: 1465 5: 1421 6: 1216 7: 1212 8: 1400 
           Vulnerabilities: 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: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection 
           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, STIBP: always-on, RSB 
           filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 
           chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB 
           driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-3:2 chip-ID: 30c9:0013 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 395mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.5 DRM 3.49 6.2.6-1-liquorix-amd64) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor 
           driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel 
           alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x,snd_acp_pci,snd_rpl_pci_acp6x,snd_pci_ps,snd_sof_amd_renoir,snd_sof_amd_rembrandt 
           bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.2.6-1-liquorix-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce,wl port: f000 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-4:3 
           chip-ID: 0bda:b00c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1 
           sub-v: abd3 hci-v: 5.1 rev: ffb8 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 7.39 GiB (1.5%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital 
           model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS2 
           temp: 26.9 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 468.68 GiB size: 460.25 GiB (98.20%) used: 7.39 GiB (1.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 282 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 32.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1974 lib: 992 flatpak: 0 
           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
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:      Processes: 286 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 770 Memory: 7.1 GiB used: 1.4 GiB (19.8%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

Posted: **Sun Apr 02, 2023 7:40 pm**

Cool!

The 6.2 kernel now has internal drivers for your wi-fi chipset, as loaded and running in your QSI:

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driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce,wl

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