antiX-M11-beta1 isos available for testing. - Page 4

rokytnji · posted: 2010-12-16 22:09

Just booted up pendrive on in house Asus Micro desktop. I don't know why in the heck I am having trouble with my EEE 900 though. Especially since I have AntiX 8.5 installed to internal SSD drive and it works great with stock mepis 3.6.32 kernel. I guess I could try on my 701SD and see what happens next.
1. Boots on Acer Aspire One
2. Boots on IBM M57 Desktop
3. Boots on Asus Micro Desktop
4. EEE 900 ? Can't find antix file system
5. EEE 701SD will see next. Edit: Boots up OK. Have to run off of land line as stock Mepis kernel does not support this wireless chip from past experience.

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demo@antiX1:/aufs/home/demo$ inxi -F
System:    Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-686-beta1 10 December 2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (nx sse sse2) bmips 1796.6 clocked at 897.892 MHz 
Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 800x480@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 915GM GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller at port d800 BusID: 01:00.0
           Card-2 Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet driver ATL1E at port ec00 BusID: 03:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 14.0GB (37.0% used) 1: USB /dev/sda DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb Flash_Reader 4.0GB 3: /dev/sdc ASUS 8.1GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 104K (1%) fs: rootfs 
Info:      Processes 105 Uptime 17 min Memory 136.4/1000.8MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.22 
demo@antiX1:/aufs/home/demo$

Must be something up with my USB ports on my EEEPC 900 for it to fail. So assuming it is hardware glitch. __{{emoticon}}__

Big Edit: Figured out I think why AntiX persistent would not boot on my 900. I decided to go look into bios under advanced tab and I changed Operating System Option from"Start" to"Finished" Now the USB boots up on my 900. Whew! What is weird. Is that Puppeee boots up fine off of SD card before I changed this. Wireless is working on Wicd using wlan2 in preferences.

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demo@antiX1:/aufs/home/demo$ inxi -F
System:    Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-686-beta1 10 December 2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (nx sse sse2) bmips 1801.32 clocked at 900.156 MHz 
Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1024x600@59.5hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 915GM GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k v: 0.6.0 BusID: 01:00.0
           Card-2 Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet driver atl2 v: 2.2.3 BusID: 03:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 22.2GB (35.0% used) 1: /dev/sda ASUS 4.0GB 
           2: /dev/sdb ASUS 16.1GB 3: USB /dev/sdc DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 105K (1%) fs: rootfs 
Info:      Processes 113 Uptime 22 min Memory 234.0/2016.8MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.22 
demo@antiX1:/aufs/home/demo$

drg · posted: 2010-12-16 22:50

Using P200MMX, 64M ram:

-successful install of antiX-M11-core-beta1-486
-cli-installer caused no problems, used a swap previously installed by antiX-8.5-486-update
-using all of a small HD, the partitons were named by cfdisk defaults ie /dev/hda1(root) and /dev/hda2 (swap)
-to mount and use a usb flashdrive, had to add ‘ /dev/sda1 / media vfat noauto,users,relatime 0 0 ' to etc/fstab
-swap is enabled by default this time, time to play.

plvera
-I tried this with both the yes and no choices to partition (ie overwriting a previous install as well as a wiped HD). For me it does work.
Have not tried eg keeping a previous install, and installing core onto a new partition. Is that maybe what you are trying?
Hm, that’s a project to try. Still wondering about differences between cfdisk and gparted. What’s with hda for one and sda for other, are there different headers?

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re antiX-686-beta1, my problems after logout
secipolla said:
“try Ctrl+Alt+F8“ --- reserved for X as well? Still, only got with ...+F7 or this ...+F8 a black screen, blinking cursor, white rectangular mouse cursor, response to keyboard and mouse, but not to eg press ‘enter’,
and “Also to restart the display manager you can use ‘service slim restart’” ---also tried ‘service slim --full-restart’, no help, back to eg “stale lockfile found, removing it”.

plvera · posted: 2010-12-17 00:38

Drg:

I'm glad to hear that you got core install to work. I'm trying to installl it into an existing partition with no luck.

I'm sorry but I don't know the answer to your question. I used gparted to partition this drive and ended up with sda1 through 5.

rokytnji · posted: 2010-12-17 05:43

__{{emoticon}}__ Wife is asleep. So I took my Pendrive and booted up her
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/2009/acer/aspire/Aspire5534/Aspire5534sp2.shtml"
linktext was:"http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/noteb ... 4sp2.shtml"
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Acer Aspire 5534. It is a monster compared to my EEEPCs.

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demo@antiX1:/aufs/home/demo$ inxi -F
System:    Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-686-beta1 10 December 2010
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon X2 L310 (-MCP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips 4791.96 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 1197.112 MHz (2) 1197.112 MHz
Graphics:  Card ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1024x768@71.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:14.2
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver ath9k BusID: 02:00.0
           Card-2 Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port 2000 BusID: 08:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 256.0GB (0.5% used) 1: /dev/sda TOSHIBA_MK2555GS 250.1GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 3: USB /dev/sdc Multi 4.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 106K (1%) fs: rootfs 
Info:      Processes 125 Uptime 19 min Memory 214.3/3545.6MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.22

Touchpad and Wireless work out of the box. So does sound . I have latest java installed on pendrive/ Works to. Just posting to show that AntiX runs good on New Gear (well kinda new) as well as old gear. Gotta shutdown before I get caught. She is a Windows 7 Babe. Though now that I know this pendrive works on her Laptop. I might talk her into trying it out and keeping it.

P. S. I hope I inherit this sucka. __{{emoticon}}__

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2010-12-17 18:15

Hey, I just noted a small but great tweak that's been made. conky is on the right instead of the left. I don't know why this never dawned on me to move it, but I like it much better on the right! Fewer apps cover it up on the right than on the left! nice tweak.

rokytnji · posted: 2010-12-18 07:59

Got a weird issue when I changed wallpaper in Fluxbox. Fluxbox taskbar changed it's display and usage (lost
extra desktop boxes) plus needed to right click to bring up 2 open programs (maximised) one at a time to show on the desktop. Hard to describe for me so including picture. This is a downloaded picture from National
Geographic and I downloaded to /demo/wallpapers. Don't know if using that directory instead of /aufs/usr/share/wallpaper in feh makes a difference. Notice how fluxbox taskbar has changed. I can bring it/default fluxbox taskbar back by logging out and relogging in. The wallpaper from /demo/wallpaper won't stick and the wind wall paper that I was using previously will show with a good taskbar. Hope I explained this coherently (it's late here) __{{emoticon}}__

Edit: Scratch

I can bring it/default fluxbox taskbar back by logging out and relogging in. The wallpaper from /demo/wallpaper won't stick and the wind wall paper that I was using previously will show with a good taskbar.

I just relogged in and out again and now I got

which did not happen on previous logout and login. Like I said. weird.

plvera · posted: 2010-12-18 12:59

I finally got M11 (full) installed in this laptop. I thought I had a bad burn since I was not able to get it to boot up to X. It would always just end up in a cli log on. Then I realized that noxorg was in the grub boot command, so I deleted that opton and it booted up fine. Did I miss something somewhere? Is it supposed to be noxorg as default?

After that I had problems with wireless (the dreaded broadcom chip), but I connected with ethernet, used synaptic to install the b43-firmware package and then ceni worked beautifully.

I'll play around with and report back. Here are the specs on the laptop:

pedro@antiX11:~$ inxi -F
System: Host antiX11 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-686-beta1 10 December 2010
CPU: Single core Mobile Intel Pentium 4 (-HT-) cache 512 KB flags (sse sse2) bmips 3190.39
Clock Speeds: (1) 1599.960 MHz (2) 1599.960 MHz
Graphics: Card nVidia NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M] X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1400x1050@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports b800 bc40 BusID: 00:1f.5
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card-1 Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller driver b43-pci-bridge BusID: 02:02.0
Card-2 Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T driver b44 v: 2.0 BusID: 02:01.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (3.3% used) 1: /dev/hdc ST96812A 60.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 19G used: 1.9G (11%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 1.09GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 97 Uptime 16 min Memory 109.7/501.4MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.22

Pedro

secipolla · posted: 2010-12-18 20:54

In extra options there are the traditional nv, vesa etc.

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-12-18 21:19

pedro, you shouldn't have had to install any broadcom firmware as the following is already installed.

firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
firmware-b43legacy-installer
firmware-bnx2
firmware-bnx2x
b43-fwcutter

plvera · posted: 2010-12-19 00:18

Hi Anti:
I noticed that the firmware-b43-installer was good for my chip (BCM4306) so I installed it with synaptic and it decided on its own to uninstall the lpphy-installer (which is good for BCM4312; according to synaptic blurb). After that, ceni was able to scan and pick up my network which it wasn't doing before.

Don't really have any other explanation.

Thanks.
Pedro

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-12-19 09:44

Hmm, maybe the firmware-b43-lpphy-installer and firmware-b43legacy-installer conflict with each other and only one should be installed.

Dave · posted: 2010-12-20 00:20

Anti,
I like the way that M11 sets the wallpaper using feh, but I would agree with ICE-M on this.

ICE-M wrote:preliminary testing done on an antix full liveusb:
4. the wallpaper app it's nice, but i find it a little difficult when it comes to knowing what wallpaper to choose, i saw the view option but i prefer nitrogen. thanks for keeping the settings for nitrogen in the start-up files. it makes the job easier to reinstall it.

But with the benefits of the way feh sets the background, ( no flashing transitions, quicker, lasting, ... ) I thought I would try something different. I tried making something with zenity but I do not think it is much better, thought i would post what I have.

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://daveserver.homelinux.com/antiX/wallpaper2.sh"
linktext was:"wallpaper2.sh"
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OU812 · posted: 2010-12-20 16:27

I haven't downloaded the latest iso yet - I'm planning on doing that today. In the meantime, here are two commands for using feh to set the background:

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feh -g 640x480 -d -S filename ~/Wallpaper/
feh -t ~/Wallpaper/ --thumb-height 120 --thumb-width 120 -S width -n -d --cache-thumbnails

The first one opens feh in a window and you can browse through your collection using the cursor keys. The second option opens a windows with thumbnail previews.

john

Cuttlefish · posted: 2010-12-20 18:59

Thanks, OU812, That's pretty neat. I'm beginning to appreciate anti's choice of feh the more I use it.
Dave

drg · posted: 2010-12-20 22:56

Good install with the noxorg option, on a P4, 3.2GHz, 1G ram.
But...... same type of problem with logout from gui, slim won't come back.

Got a sort of workaround with installing xdm (X Display Manager). It allows logout and comes back to the gui, and can login as eg a different user if I like, but I do not know how to get a choice of window managers eg fluxbox/icewm/rox etc. This is a different kind of beast compared to slim or gdm3, for sure, and I don't understand it much. Just to mention.