topic title: antiX-16-a1 available for testing.
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masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#31
Got it! Here's my first system, the Dell Inspiron 5558:

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inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.3)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-16-a1_386-full Berta Cáceres 14 March 2016
Machine:   System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
           Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 Bios: Dell v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i7-5500U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9577
           clock speeds: max: 3000 MHz 1: 985 MHz 2: 822 MHz 3: 823 MHz
           4: 884 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA Device 1299 bus-ID: 08:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau,intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-2 Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 06:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 07:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1031.7GB (0.8% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST1000LM024_HN size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: DTR30G2 size: 31.5GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 2.5G used: 18M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.49GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 45.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 144 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 197.2/3204.0MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.2.31
I will experiment with settings and my other systems later. I'll certainly try out persistence.
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masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#32
Persistence appears to be working, also the meta-package installer works. I guess the full proof will come the next time I start up, but it appears to be functioning normally. Running from USB and it works quite well.

UPDATE: restarted and the persistent state was recovered so that is confirmed to work on Dell Inspiron 5558 with the full 386 image.
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#33
From my broken netbook, but at least wicd worked perfectly. Get"segmentation fault" in terminal output of inxi -F after Graphics after having connected, therefore inxi -Fxxz before running wicd

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$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.3)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 dm: slim
           Distro: antiX-16-a1_386-full Berta Cáceres 14 March 2016
Machine:   System: ASUSTeK product: 1001HA v: x.x Chassis: type: 10 v: x.x
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 1005HA v: x.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 1601 date: 04/18/2011
CPU:       Single core Intel Atom N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB
           flags: (nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 3199
           clock speeds: min/max: 800/1600 MHz 1: 1067 MHz 2: 1600 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:27ae
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x600@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet
           driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: ec00
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1062
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
           driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:3090
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 35.9GB (8.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_SSD_PM83 size: 32.0GB serial: S0XLNSACA03025
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Silicon size: 3.9GB serial: 1306149501500170-0:0
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.6G used: 2.5M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 124 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 86.5/2009.0MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in roxterm) inxi: 2.2.31
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#34
Some strange behaviour of palemoon-atom on my MSI Nettop, the palemoon process is not shown in htop, but it is shown in top with 99-106% __{{emoticon}}__

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top - 15:49:06 up  2:28,  3 users,  load average: 1.10, 1.01, 1.02
Tasks: 149 total,   3 running, 146 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 51.4 us,  0.8 sy,  0.0 ni, 47.6 id,  0.2 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   2057248 total,  1289300 used,   767948 free,      872 buffers
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 used,        0 free.   774124 cached Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                          
 2775 eugen     20   0  705752 358960  60296 R  99.6 17.4  69:02.04 palemoon-atom                                                                    
 2374 root      20   0  139704  36276  22416 S   1.6  1.8   5:00.74 Xorg                                                                             
 3016 eugen     20   0   44464  23292  18088 S   1.3  1.1   0:08.88 roxterm                                                                          
 3307 eugen     20   0    5384   2604   2192 R   0.7  0.1   0:02.77 top                                                                              
 2529 eugen     20   0   48100  11892   6292 S   0.3  0.6   1:18.26 compton                                                                          
    1 root      20   0    3024   1724   1588 S   0.0  0.1   0:01.17 init                                                                             
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd                                                                         
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.13 ksoftirqd/0                                                                      
    5 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H                                                                     
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:03.04 rcu_sched                                                                        
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcu_bh                                                                           
    9 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.03 migration/0
I did use filter function of htop, palemoon wasn't there.
After restarting the browser it was visible in htop again. Will see if happens again and report upstream.
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#35
By the way I copied the whole antiX HDD partition to a subvolume on my main SSD. Works fine on flash either.

The only annoyance is the window placement in JWM, but I don't know yet how to make them distribute themselves more to the corners.
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#36
I set

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<Opacity>1.0</Opacity>
anywhere in active and inactive in the JWM theme black, because compton seems not to be able to detect what whindos are active or inactive. It makes them all a bit transparent. After that change in JWM theme compton now is able to make only inactive windows transparent.
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#37
eugen-b - since antiX is not going to ship with comptonm does making that change make any difference to the antiX jwm default?
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#38
anticapitalista wrote:eugen-b - since antiX is not going to ship with comptonm does making that change make any difference to the antiX jwm default?
No, no difference. Without compton everything is opaque. But the problems start when a user enables compton.
The info might be nice to know, I thought. At least when new users ask about this issue with compton, the answer would be disable all transparency settings in the WM (on Fluxbox it is the same, I've just remembered, it will interfere with compton's settings) and use only compton's transparency settings.

To test again just for fun I commented opacity settings in the theme. The default opacity seems to be somewhere between 0.8 and 0.9. It is not documented here
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://joewing.net/projects/jwm/config.shtml#window"
linktext was:"http://joewing.net/projects/jwm/config.shtml#window"
====================================
and also not in man jwm.
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#39
I remembered one relevant bug: I chose no autologin at the installer but git autologin anyways. Opened autologin setting in CC, it was empty, no user set, I closed it and got the SLiM greeter on the next restart.
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#40
I found an alternative to conky for the JWM tray, install xsysinfo and add the following line to the tray config
<Swallow name="xsysinfo" height="35" width="100"> xsysinfo -update 2000 -notitle -nolabels -noloadavg -noswap -nosmp </Swallow>
The tray must have enough height.
You will get a simple and light system monitor with horizontal bars, for additional info: man xsysinfo.
Running atop -m (another useful tool for the terminal)

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  PID      MINFLT      MAJFLT      VSTEXT       VSIZE       RSIZE        VGROW       RGROW      RUID          EUID           MEM      CMD         1/1
 3821           0           0         76K      551.7M      244.8M           0K       -188K      eugen         eugen          12%      palemoon-atom
 2318           1           0          0K      124.4M      27896K          -8K          0K      root          root            1%      Xorg
 3693           5           0        240K      44108K      22524K           0K          0K      eugen         eugen           1%      roxterm
 2661           0           0         18K      28984K      20028K           0K          0K      eugen         eugen           1%      gksu
 2529           0           0        175K      47820K      11440K           0K          0K      eugen         eugen           1%      compton
 2481          16           0        346K      47100K       6124K           0K          0K      eugen         eugen           0%      conky
 4518           0           0          8K       7144K       3696K           0K          0K      eugen         eugen           0%      xload
 1621           0           0          0K       7412K       3632K           0K          0K      root          root            0%      wpa_supplicant
 4515         518           0        164K       3876K       3144K           0K          4K      eugen         eugen           0%      atop
 4520           0           0         12K       4980K       2964K           0K          0K      eugen         eugen           0%      xsysinfo
    1           0           0          0K       3024K       1676K           0K          0K      root          root            0%      init
 2221           0           0          0K       2300K       1272K           0K          0K      root          root            0%      gpm
Shows how light it is with 2964K.
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#41
A problem: I cannot mount an exfat formatted SD card vie click on it in SpaceFM, I'm getting this error

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fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
FUSE exfat 1.1.0

I am able mount it with sudo in the terminal and can access the files. I have exfat-fuse and exfat-utils installed.
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viktor_ja
Joined: 19 Mar 2016
#42
anticapitalista wrote:32 bit full version only at the moment...

...Please test on real hardware as well as in VBox.

We are particularly interested in finding out how well the iso-snapshot...
A small report on the installation of antiX-16-a1_386-full system to a VBox, can be viewed here: mx-linux-russian-t5899.html (Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:16 pm ).
Other details on the use antiX systems, the MX can be found in this thread:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://forum.matuntu.org/index.php?topic=406.0"
linktext was:"http://forum.matuntu.org/index.php?topic=406.0"
====================================
.

Sorry, Russian forum! Good luck!
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masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#43
I've now tested antiX-16a1 on all three of my laptops - the newest one, a Dell Inspiron 5558 (I'm pretty sure the report on that is somewhere in this thread), the Gateway 2000 Model PA6A,which I've reported on many times in many releases, and the Lenovo 3000 Model Y410, which I am using now.

I installed with"All Persist", dumping the initial image to a 32 GB USB stick and booting from there and running in persistent mode. I've tried Frugal and All Persist for sure on at least one of the platforms and the behavior seems to be what's expected. I've also used the Meta Package Installer along with persistence and found the packages I've installed to be"remembered" when rebooted from the previous persistent state, again as expected.

I've not tried anywhere near all of the possibilities, but I have installed and verified hardware support on three systems and all is well on all three of them from my perspective. My usage, other than the persistence, has been pretty basic, mostly exercising the Web browsers, but the behavior has been solid. I've also utilized only the IceWM and behavior there has been good. I've changed backgrounds and the changes have been persistent as expected.

Here is my latest report from the Lenovo, in good health:

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$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.3) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-16-a1_386-full Berta Cáceres 14 March 2016
Machine:   System: LENOVO product: LENOVO3000 Y410
           Mobo: LENOVO model: IGT30 v: REFERENCE Bios: LENOVO v: 05CN57WW(V3.02) date: 01/30/2008
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T5450 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 6650
           clock speeds: max: 1667 MHz 1: 1333 MHz 2: 1333 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1280x800@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection
           driver: iwl3945 v: in-tree:s bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 v: 3.137 bus-ID: 06:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 191.5GB (6.7% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: FUJITSU_MHY2160B size: 160.0GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: DTR30G2 size: 31.5GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.6G used: 505M (32%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: /home size: 1.8G used: 89M (6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/loop1
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 129 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 96.7/2008.2MB Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.2.31
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#44
After some more testing time I want to add some more points:
- I was able to set up my Brother 2030 printer: reenabled cups service from CC (disabled at installation), I didn't like the GUI tool for printer setup (didn't find the option to import PPD file) and used the browser interface.
- I like the kernel very much, don't feel the urge to switch to Liquorix. Switching workspaces is fast, no lags otherwise.
- I wasn't able to enable outmounting my exfat SD card, but it mounts with a terminal command.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#45
exfat

1. need to install exfat-utils, exfat-fuse
2. for automounting in spacefm, you need to install the udevil from debian testing. accept the maintainers configuration file if prompted to do so. it contains new settings for exfat mounting. if you update udevil, then the"devmon" automount utility will also automatically pick up exfat formats