antiX-M11-pt1 available - Page 5

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2011-01-04 13:39

quick thought on the wallpaper chooser...I don't know the origins of the chooser, but can it be set up so that it doesn't close after you press one of the"set" buttons down at the bottom. Not much fits on my eee screen, and I've been setting the wallpaper and then reopening the chooser everytime I try out new wall papers.

Also, the chooser looks in usr/share/wallpapers instead of the /home/"user"/wallpapers, yet the wallpapers are available in both places. Its a little confusing, especially if you add your own wallpapers to /home/"user"/wallpapers and expect them to show up in the chooser. you can of course navigate to whatever folder you want, but the chooser doesn't default to the last used folder, which might also be nice.

Just some thoughts.

plvera · posted: 2011-01-04 22:55

I tried running smxi on an USB stick with Antix-live (with persist), but was unable to. Gave me a message about needing /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I was trying to install a liquorix kernel to see if it would pickup my Broadcom 4321 card in my work laptop.

I then tried using synaptic to install the liquorix kernel, but grub was not updated. I ran update-grub and nothing happened.

Is it possible to use smxi with antix in USB? How can I update grub to pickup the kernel that was supposedly installed??

thanks
Pedro

drg · posted: 2011-01-04 23:34

antiX-M11-pt1-686 onto a Dell P4, 3.2GHz, 1G ram.

Have problem and (so far) a work-around. With or without the noxorg option.

Re: accessing the console (runlevel 3, Ctrl-Alt-F1, or the others except -F7. What is the accepted term, so no confusion?)
Work-around is simply log out from slim, got console access again, log in from gui again, back-and-forth switching seems to work now.

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Tedious details
After finishing install, did ‘reboot’, while CD was shutting down saw message “Disabling IRQ 16“. I presume this is about what the kernel is/has done or trying to do.
On 1st time bootup, before log in, checked the console and saw text (below).
Switched back to gui login screen, did login, back to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), now a blank screen and the monitor LED is no longer green.. Same with other tty’s except the -F7.

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Welcome to antiX. Powered by Debian Testing and MEPIS.
antiX1 login: irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the"irqpoll" option)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp #1
Call Trace:
[<c105fabe>] ? __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x69
[<c105fac5>] ? __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69
[<c105fbea>] ? note_interrupt+0xe7/0x13d
[<c106011c>] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x81/0xa2
[<c1004d13>] ? handle_irq+0x17/0x1b
[<c1004595>] ? do_IRQ+0x38/0x89
[<c1003170>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x38
[<c10086f2>] ? mwait_idle+0x52/0x5a
[<c1001ce9>] ? cpu_idle+0x89/0xb8
[<c14ef7f2>] ? start_kernel+0x313/0x318
handlers:
[<f7ccefa8>] (tg3_interrupt_tagged+0x0/0x6c [tg3])
Disabling IRQ #16

Welcome to antiX. Powered by Debian Testing and MEPIS.
antiX1 login: Welcome to antiX. Powered by Debian Testing and MEPIS.
Password:
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drg@antiX1:~$ inxi -F
System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-686-beta2 27 December 2010
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-UP-) cache 1024 KB flags (nx sse sse2 sse3) bmips 6390.13 clocked at 3193.984 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] X.Org 1.7.7 Res:
1024x768@70.1hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports ec00 e8c0 BusID: 00:1e.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver tg3 v: 3.102 BusID: 02:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 4.3GB (43.1% used) 1: /dev/hda FUJITSU MPE3043AE 4.3GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 3.8G used: 1.8G (49%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 0.23GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 90 Uptime 36 min Memory 83.6/1007.4MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.22
drg@antiX1:~$

rokytnji · posted: 2011-01-04 23:59

Is it possible to use smxi with antix in USB

I don't think so pivera. At least with my experience with AntiX 8.5 persistent USB.
I ended up using ndiswrapper to get wireless going on persistent usb for my EEEpc 701SD because the 2.6.32 smp mepis kernel was missing the .ko for my wireless chip on my EEEPC 701SD.

viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2610

rokytnji · posted: 2011-01-05 03:07

Man. I don't know if my cdrw disks are at fault or my burner or what so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Spent all day trying to make a good burn on cdrw on a md5sum checked download.

Finally got a cdrw disk to bbbbbbbboooooot to Icewm no Icons.
Got to Desktop. Unfortunately. Everything went downhill for me when trying to connect wirelessly on this Desktop which has no land line since it sits in my motorcycle shop.

Terminal

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demo@antiX1:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b3:310c IBM Corp. Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0951:1607 Kingston Technology DataTraveler 100
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
demo@antiX1:~$ iwconfig
bash: iwconfig: command not found
demo@antiX1:~$ sux
Password: 
root@antiX1:/home/demo# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          
root@antiX1:/home/demo# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:6b:b8:bf:d4  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:5a:56:07  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ceni shows nada

wicd asks for password and here is what I got

and rutilt gave me no joy either

Like I said. Maybe the fault is on my end with bad media or something __{{emoticon}}__ .

But I guess I figured I should post this as maybe my info is relevant. If not. Ignore
the tattooed biker behind the computer. __{{emoticon}}__

rokytnji · posted: 2011-01-05 03:13

As a follow up (screen shot forum limit comes into play here)

I went into /var/log/wicd and looked for error file. wicd folder was empty.

I saved all above screenshots and terminal readout to USB and then booted into my installed Antix 8.5 which works with that Wireless USB listed above.

Notice how gksu rox does not open rox as root. But sux does. Just another conundrum from a nethanderal. __{{emoticon}}__

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2011-01-05 04:24

rok,

i had a similar issue with liveusb wicd. it gave me the same dbus errors as you. It worked fine after install though. One difference for me is that ceni did work for me on the liveusb.
d.o.

rokytnji · posted: 2011-01-05 17:56

dolphin_oracle wrote:rok,

i had a similar issue with liveusb wicd. it gave me the same dbus errors as you. It worked fine after install though. One difference for me is that ceni did work for me on the liveusb.
d.o.

Spot on D_O. Just installed on first hardrive

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root@bikertest:/home/harry# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7e48ae57

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1307    10498446   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            1308        4865    28579635    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1308        2652    10803681    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6            2653        2794     1140583+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7            2795        3830     8317952   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdd: 60.1 GB, 60060155904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7301 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x55054103

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *           1         599     4811436   83  Linux
/dev/hdd2             600        1242     5164897+  83  Linux
/dev/hdd3            1243        7301    48668917+   5  Extended
/dev/hdd5            1243        2018     6233188+  83  Linux
/dev/hdd6            2019        4585    20619396   83  Linux
/dev/hdd7            4586        7160    20683656    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdd8            7161        7301     1132551   82  Linux swap / Solaris

As you can notice, I have a plethora of Muti-boot stuff on this desktop. I use grub4dos to boot. I am learning it instead of learning grub2. I installed grub for Antix to root on /dev/hda7 where testing is sitting.
Only editing I needed to do to get boot was to change root=/dev/sda7 to root=/dev/hda7 and testing booted fine. Connected via wicd as wlan0 using dhclient in preferences.

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root@bikertest:/home/harry# inxi -F
System:    Host bikertest Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-686-beta2 27 December 2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-UP-) cache 256 KB flags (sse sse2) bmips 3589.83 clocked at 1794.162 MHz 
Graphics:  Card nVidia NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] X.org 1.7.7 Res: 80x24 Gfx Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 1c00 1840 BusID: 00:1f.5
           Card-2 Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] driver ENS1371 at port 2040 BusID: 02:0e.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card Intel 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port 2000 BusID: 02:08.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 100.1GB (2.0% used) 1: /dev/hda IC35L040AVVA07-0 40.0GB 
           2: /dev/hdd SAMSUNG SV6003H 60.1GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 7.9G used: 1.9G (26%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 1.17GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
           ID:swap-2 size: 1.16GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 86 Uptime 17 min Memory 118.3/1135.5MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.22

Installed lshw so I could see

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root@bikertest:/home/harry# lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:09:6b:b8:bf:d4
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=half firmware=N/A latency=66 link=no maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:20 memory:f2000000-f2000fff ioport:2000(size=64)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:e0:4c:5a:56:07
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes ip=192.(edited) multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

Gotta go fill out some job applications. Wife wants me back to punching a time clock __{{emoticon}}__ . Says I spend too much time learning Linux. So I guess my CDRW disk was OK because install went without a hitch. I don't know what is up with the live session freaking on me. If I was a new user. I would be all freaked out on what happened previously. I have not tested much yet since install is fresh. Sound is OK. Flash is OK.
Already did my

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# apt-get update

Good thing about using grub 4 dos is I can blow away testing. Then run grub4dos again and it will edit menu entries again. I don't understand everything yet about grub4dos. But it looks like legacy grub to me.

So testing running OK so far (installed).

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-01-05 18:05

rok don't use the lean or Xtralean cheatcodes and wicd should open ok.

rokytnji · posted: 2011-01-05 18:13

anticapitalista wrote:rok don't use the lean or Xtralean cheatcodes and wicd should open ok.

Aha. Good to know for anybody reading this.

Hannes Worst · posted: 2011-01-09 13:35

I've installed AntiX-M11 with AntiX2usb on the usb-stick and gave it a try on my ol' computer (AMD-athlon 1500+). After trying several other distro's for usb-OS I think AntiX is the best for me yet. Everything seems to work OK. Congratulations with another good release to come.
One slight problem though, my Antix continuesly defaults to a en_GB keyboard. Even when I add kbd=us as cheatcode to my menu.lst , I end up with en_GB. Everytime I have to change it manually to"us". It's no big deal but a bit strange. And I had to define my locale in .xinitrc; this also didn't work as cheatcode at bootup. Reading the posts on this topic so far, I think I'm the only one experiencing this problem.

Greetings from wet and windy Holland

dark-D · posted: 2011-01-11 17:25

installed it on my cousin laptop. it's pretty sweat. the new menu structure is cool. the desktop is ok for a newbie. the icon for files opens rox maybe it should open pcmanfm. it would be nice if the user could import desktop items from the application section in pcmanfm (maybe use pcmanfm desktop when it is more stable). ceni spikes the cpu at 100%, also i think the wireless in live doesn't work for this laptop, and after installation the card is seen and the switch for it but wicd turn empty on a search(need to take a closer look). the conky is unreadable with the current color. i don't know what to say about xmms for new users. pidgin and other programs open links with dillo. in rest all good and antix has become more and more friendly. if i remember anything i'll let you know.

secipolla · posted: 2011-01-11 19:38

Hannes Wort, if you're using persistence, just edit /etc/default/keyboard to set your preferred one.
You can also run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' as root and set the preferred one (and also remove the other ones).

Hannes Worst · posted: 2011-01-11 21:21

Secipolla, thanks for your help.
I allready managed to get the locale right. But now the keyboard-layout is also OK. Thanks!

dark-D · posted: 2011-01-12 21:44

anti if deadbeef is not a good alternative to gogglesmm. can i ask to update gogglesmm in antix pt1 to a newer version? the version in antix gives a segmentation error when we add new files to the list. this has been fixed by the author on the newest version. i use a deb built for ubuntu and it works. here is the link
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/g/gogglesmm/gogglesmm_0.11.5-1~getdeb1_i386.deb"
linktext was:"http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb/ubuntu ... 1_i386.deb"
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