topic title: antiX-15-beta1-V ready for testing
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#106
dolphin_oracle wrote:There is a separate text color setting in the rox Options.
Thanks for the tip. The setting is, Options-->Colours, Colour files based on their types.

The current fashion for very dark desktops can be problematical for people with impaired eyesight. Previously it was of less concern because antiX used a light default theme which meant changing the text colour in ROX-Filer was uneccessary. Now it is pretty much essential to change GTK theme, IceWM theme and ROX text to be able to use the system.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#107
Re: SIS Video Driver

Based on my previous post and the following response
post39542.html#p39542

Request
The SIS driver mentioned in the reply be included in the next beta release to restore 15 to the same level of usability as 13.2.
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#108
SamK - which SIS driver are you referring to? I don't see it in the link you posted.

Also, I'll change the rox folder text files to be readable for both light and dark themes.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#109
anticapitalista wrote:SamK - which SIS driver are you referring to? I don't see it in the link you posted.
dolphin_oracle helped by identifying in the linked post that the same version of xserver-xorg-video-sis is present in both Wheezy and Unstable but for some reason not in Jessie.
anticapitalista wrote:Also, I'll change the rox folder text files to be readable for both light and dark themes.
Thanks for that. I'll refrain from asking for a change of theme as well. If I enter a contest I prefer to have at least a small chance of being victorious.
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#110
SamK wrote:
anticapitalista wrote:SamK - which SIS driver are you referring to? I don't see it in the link you posted.
dolphin_oracle helped by identifying in the linked post that the same version of xserver-xorg-video-sis is present in both Wheezy and Unstable but for some reason not in Jessie.

Not a lot we can do about that, I'm afraid since neither install in Jessie.
anticapitalista wrote:Also, I'll change the rox folder text files to be readable for both light and dark themes.
Thanks for that. I'll refrain from asking for a change of theme as well. If I enter a contest I prefer to have at least a small chance of being victorious.
I have changed it to a lighter theme.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#111
Also, I'll change the rox folder text files to be readable for both light and dark themes.
Just clarifying what I posted earlier, regarding gray-on-gray text displayed in rox-filer.
The gray text I reported wasn't just applied to folder icon labels.
Gray was applied to all the text (filename,permissions,timestamp,etc) across columns displayed in the"details view".
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#112
SamK wrote:Console decoration F2-->F6
post39520.html#p39520
Addressed=yes
pending outcome of tests post40020.html#p40020
and resolution of directfb issues now present in 15 beta
The above is a report I made previously in this topic/thread. I incorrectly reported it as fixed, so am reporting it again

Re: Inconsistent outcome of disabling console decoration

Boot params: quiet splash=off vga=788 3
Results:
  • ALT-F1 console decoration=not displayed
  • ALT-F2 console decoration=displayed
  • ALT-F3 console decoration=displayed
  • ALT-F4 console decoration=displayed
  • ALT-F5 console decoration=displayed
  • ALT-F6 console decoration=displayed
Switching off console decoration should consistently disable it for all consoles.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#113
Re: SIS Video Driver
anticapitalista wrote:Not a lot we can do about that, I'm afraid since neither install in Jessie.
How about looking at this one?

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable"
linktext was:"https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable"
====================================


The following compares what happens without it and with it for this SiS adaptor.

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lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter [1039:6325]
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0018]


Live: no persistence
Boot params: quiet splash=off vga=788
Using: vesa

Modules in play

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lsmod | grep sis
sis_agp                 3333  1 
i2c_sis96x              2856  0
Xorg configuration unmodified

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cat / etc/X11/xorg.conf
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# xorg.conf file
#
# Generated by make-xorg-conf sometime around Thu Mar 26 09:43:37 GMT 2015
#
# If you want to save customizations, delete the line above or this
# file will get automatically deleted on the next live boot.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

Section"Monitor"
    Identifier"Monitor0"
    Option"DPMS""true"
    HorizSync    30-75
    VertRefresh  55-70
EndSection

Section"Device"
    Identifier"Device0"
    Driver    "vesa"
EndSection

Section"Screen"
    Identifier"Screen0"
    Monitor"Monitor0"
    Device "Device0"
    SubSection"Display"
        Modes "1280x1024""1333x768""1024x768""800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection
Obligatory inxi report

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inxi -c0 -G
Graphics:  Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: vesa
           Resolution: 1280x1024@0.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Range of available resolutions

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xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024      0.00* 
   1024x768       0.00  
   800x600        0.00  
   640x480        0.00


Live: no persistence
Boot params: quiet splash=off vga=788 3
Using: sisimedia
Note: booted to console to build and configure driver, then switched to GUI via startx

Modules in play

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lsmod | grep sis
sis                     4432  0 
drm                   205050  1 sis
i2c_sis96x              2856  0 
sis_agp                 3333  1
Note extra modules loaded.


Xorg configuration modified

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cat / etc/X11/xorg.conf
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# xorg.conf file
#
# Generated by make-xorg-conf sometime around Thu Mar 26 08:53:16 GMT 2015
#
# If you want to save customizations, delete the line above or this
# file will get automatically deleted on the next live boot.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

Section"Monitor"
    Identifier"Monitor0"
    Option"DPMS""true"
    HorizSync    30-75
    VertRefresh  55-70
EndSection

Section"Device"
    Identifier"Device0"
    Driver    "sisimedia"
EndSection

Section"Screen"
    Identifier"Screen0"
    Monitor"Monitor0"
    Device "Device0"
    SubSection"Display"
        Modes "1280x1024""1333x768""1024x768""800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection
Note only the name of the driver is changed in the Device section

Obligatory inxi report

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inxi -c0 -G
Graphics:  Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: N/A Resolution: 1280x1024@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Note the name of the driver is not shown.


Range of available resolutions

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xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024     60.00* 
   1024x768      70.00    60.00  
   800x600       60.00    56.00  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1280x854      60.00  
   1280x800      60.00  
   1152x864      60.00  
   1280x768      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00  
   1024x576      60.00  
   960x600       60.00  
   960x540       60.00  
   768x576       60.00  
   720x576       60.00  
   856x480       60.00  
   848x480       60.00  
   800x480       60.00  
   720x480       61.00  
   640x480       60.00  
   512x384       60.00  
   400x300       60.00  
   320x240       61.00
Note a large increase in the number of available resolutions[/color]
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#114
User groups:

The default groups for the first user do not match the groups for users created with"adduser" or the user manager. In particular, the scanner group is not present in the default, and the default first user is not a member of lpadmin group.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#115
Re: User Groups

The matter relating to lpadmin reported by dolphin_oracle is a longstanding bug that was identified shortly after the release of 13.2 in this post post30848.html#p30848
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#116
is there a way to setup some kind of quick reference on the herbslulftwm so that a text file or something opens to tell you what the default keys are? with the new quick changing"alternate desktop" setup, it is too easy to switch to it and get stuck. And if you have autologin set, you really don't get a chance to change environments again on reboot.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#117
Application Background Colour

Test 1
GTK theme=default
IceWM theme=default

Leafpad background colour=black
Dillo background colour=black


Test 2
GTK theme=MediterraneanWhite
IceWM theme=IceClearlooks

Leafpad background colour=white
Dillo background colour=black

If antiX is going to include a particular configuration for Dillo (or other app), it should also include an automatic mechanism that switches it to a suitable configuration when the antix theme is switched.
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masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#118
I did not really"rake this build" over the coals, so to speak, but I did push a frugal instance onto another partition on my disk and that worked, and I also installed the image on my Lenovo 3000 Series Y410 laptop. I do not have it with me in order to present you with the current statistics, but I can tell you that there were no major issues with it.

Any cruft or lack of details that may emerge are understandable in early builds, though I have not in my typical every day use cases encountered them yet; for me it worked well.

I have had other antiX, MEPIS and earlier MX-14 releases on this hardware in the past and they've always worked well, so I'm not surprised. Good job; keep it up!
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Jerry
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
#119
Installed this on my Dell 700m

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-beta1-V_386-full Killah P 16 March 2015
Machine:   System: Dell product: Inspiron 700m v: -1
           Mobo: DELL SYSTEM model: Inspiron 700m v: Rev.A
           Bios: Phoenix v: A02 date: 02/01/05
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium M (-UP-) cache: 2048 KB
           speed/max: 1400/1600 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x800@65.28hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
           driver: snd_intel8x0
           Sound: ALSA v: k3.19.1-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
           driver: b43-pci-bridge
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:0b:7d:18:92:4b
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:0f:1f:b1:d6:13
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (9.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HTS548040M9AT00 size: 40.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 9.5G used: 2.4G (27%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.21GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0C mobo: 45.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A fan-2: 0
Info:      Processes: 97 Uptime: 12 min Memory: 92.2/1242.2MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16
Looks great! Only a few comments for now.

--Wireless worked without having to futz around with b43 etc. Great!
--Bottom panel covers brand and logo--looks pretty bad IMO
--Not sure that checking"save password for this session" is working. I went through a couple of categories and had to reenter the pwd every single time.

Nice work people.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#120
Not sure that checking"save password for this session" is working
No, from user point of view, it's not working (is broken).
I reported this against antiX-14R alpha3 last October:
In antiX, the gksu dialog speciously invites user to save password"...blahblah keyring"

Not working because, intentionally, antix configuration specifies sudoers_timeout=0

To"fix" gksu, its source code could be patched to omit the"save password" checkbox and label from its"sudo mode" dialog box (vs"su mode", configurable via gksu-properties).
Recompiling the patched command as"gksu-antix" seems (to me) like the"right thing to do", but the I doubt the devs welcome the chore of maintaining yet another custom package.