MX-14 beta 2

[Eadwine Rose]

On the install, right click - open root Thunar here is not opening a root Thunar. It doesn't seem to do anything.

[chrispop99]

Their were reported issues pre-B2 with booting on older machines with IDE drives. To test this, I had thrown together a single-core Athlon box with an IDE HDD. This failed to boot B1, giving the 'Fatal error - No block devices found!' report.

I have just tried B2 on the IDE box, and it boots fine.

inxi -F for machine:

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demo@mx1:~
$ su
Password: 
root@mx1:/home/demo# inxi -F
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.10.2 Distro: MX-14_13.98_386-xfce beta2 30 January 2014
Machine:   System: American Megatrends product: K7S41GX version: 1.0 serial: 00000000 
           Mobo: N/A model: K7S41GX version: 1.0 serial: 00000000 Bios: American Megatrends version: P2.80 date: 10/18/2006
CPU:       Single core AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (pae sse) clocked at 2180.710 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] 
           X.org: 1.12.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty size: 80x25 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller driver: snd_intel8x0 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae
Network:   Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet driver: sis900 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:19:66:48:a2:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (-) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST380012A size: 80.0GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 794M used: 1.7M (1%) fs: rootfs 
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 102 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 117.6/1008.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.16 
root@mx1:/home/demo# 

Chris

[chrispop99]

On the install, right click - open root Thunar here is not opening a root Thunar. It doesn't seem to do anything.

It's working fine here, on both an install and running live.

If you are running installed, can you try live?

Chris

[Eadwine Rose]

Interesting, it works on the livecd.

[anticapitalista]

For me, the MX-14_13.98_386-xfce.iso (beta-2, 2nd edition) LiveCD always starts up X even if I give it the boot parameter "3". I did not have this problem with the first beta release. Can anyone else replicate this?

Yes, bug found. Will fix. (lightdm still has symlink in /etc/rc.3.d)

[chrispop99]

Interesting, it works on the livecd.

Perhaps it might be worth reinstalling, in case something screwed up?

Chris

[chrispop99]

I tried an install on a DELL D430 netbook. This machine has no built-in optical drive, and uses a proprietary USB connection for its dedicated external optical drive. (I installed with a CD.) It has been difficult to install some Linux distros to this machine in the past, and some hardware is not recognised.

MX-14 installed perfectly, with no issues. Graphics, sound, networking, special function keys, and all touchpad functions work 100%. It runs really well on a machine that only has modest performance.

inxi -F details:

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chris@mx3:~
$ su
Password: 
root@mx3:/home/chris# inxi -F
System:    Host: mx3 Kernel: 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.10.2 Distro: MX-14_13.98_386-xfce beta2 30 January 2014
Machine:   System: Dell product: Latitude D430 serial: 8YS224J 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0F331C serial: .8YS224J.CN129618B66907. Bios: Dell version: A08 date: 07/28/2008
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU U7700 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller 
           X.org: 1.12.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty size: 80x25 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:21:70:c5:a5:b6
           Card-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection driver: iwl3945 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:1f:3c:c8:fa:db
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (-) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HS082HB size: 80.0GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 72G used: 2.4G (4%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 2.17GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.5C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 132 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 122.8/2014.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.16 
root@mx3:/home/chris# 

Chris

[afab4]

Needs smbclient if you want to set up printers via samba.

[anticapitalista]

To install samba stuff, use the metapackage installer application

[Paul..]

To install samba stuff, use the metapackage installer application

Unfortunately, 'smbclient' is not part of that Samba install option in 'metapackage-installer'...To afab4's point, it should be added to solve the problem he notes.

EDIT: I've added this as a suggestion in the metapackage-installer section.