antiX-M8.5-rc2 available

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-02-09 09:46

Almost there.

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This version has one major change from rc1 and previous test releases.
Dependency based booting is enabled in livecd so no message to convert on install first boot.
Startup scripts slightly adjusted.
Hopefully this will not affect slower computers, in fact it should speed up boot time even in live mode.
New dpi=XX cheatcode.
2.6.32-7 MEPIS kernel.
Apps upgraded.
Minor tweaks to menus.
wicd 1.7 (fixed version from Debian sid).
Latest transmission from Debian sid (due to security bug).

Post feedback in this thread.

Enjoy!

plvera · posted: 2010-02-09 12:10

Hello:
I tried the livecd and had the same problem with my Dell 7500 inspiron. It would not boot unless I typed nodma in the boot options. I don't really have much idea of what dma does, but perhaps this should be one of the extra boot options? Once it booted, it did not detect my ethernet or wireless pcmcia cards. I went ahead and did an install (entire drive) and it seemed to work ok but then when rebooting, nothing would boot up. This is very strange and it's the first time it's ever happened with Antix. I guess it's possible the hard drive went bad. I'll try again tonight with an install into the full hard drive, and post about the results.
Pedro

oldhoghead · posted: 2010-02-09 13:26

anti,

First boot on this box, black screen, ctrl-alt-F1 then root>root>reboot, on reboot tried intel same result, then tried vesa and am posting from that boot details of this laptop:

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demo@mepis1:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host mepis1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-rc2 Marek Edelman 08 February 2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium M (UP) cache 2048 KB flags (sse2) bmips 3589.65 clocked at 1800.00 MHz 
Graphics:  Card Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device X.Org 1.7.4 Res: 1024x768@0.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.6.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 1c00 18c0 BusID: 00:1f.5
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX BusID: 02:05.0
           Card-2 Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection driver ipw2200 v: 1.2.2kmprq BusID: 02:01.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (-) 1: /dev/hda FUJITSU MHT2080AT PL 80.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 102K (1%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 4.34GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 88 Uptime 4 min Memory 118.8/991.8MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.3.14

Back later with other test machines,

cheers,
oldhoghead

rokytnji · posted: 2010-02-09 14:36

Running Live Usb on Asus EEE 900 . Connected up wireless just fine after going into Control Center>Network>Wicd>Preferences>Wireless interface and typing in wlan0 in empty box. Left external programs tab in auto. Posting now after connecting. No problems booting up on this Asus EEEPC 900 or connecting up. My eye aint still right. But I wanna try doing a persistent install to a 4 gig Kingston external SD Flash card (camera card) later after resting my eye. Will update later how it goes. If it goes OK.

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~$ inxi -F
System:    Host mepis1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-rc2 Marek Edelman 08 February 2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron M (UP) cache 512 KB flags (sse2 nx) bmips 1800.09 clocked at 900.046 MHz 
Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.4 Res: 1024x600@59.5hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 915GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.6.1 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 Attansic Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter driver atl2 v: 2.2.3 BusID: 03:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 28.2GB (1.8% used) 1: /dev/sda ASUS 4.0GB 
           2: /dev/sdb ASUS 16.1GB 3: USB /dev/sdc U3_Cruzer_Micro 4.1GB 
           4: USB /dev/sdd CardReader_SD0 4.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 104K (1%) fs: rootfs 
Info:      Processes 95 Uptime 14 min Memory 126.8/2016.3MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.3.14 
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update: Tapping on touchpad works/. Downloading Base Iso to Live USB presently to make a Persistent Flash Drive. Gonna practise with base because eventually I wish to install Base iso to the internal SSD 4gig on this Asus and see how the persistent Flash drive runs on my Acer Aspire one ZG5.

1407 · posted: 2010-02-09 15:03

oldhoghead ,
Try i915.modeset=0 on boot , I had similar issue with intel card.

rokytnji · 09 Feb 2010, 16:04 #6 2010-02-09 16:04

Install of Base Iso to 4gig external SD Flash card using Control Center>Drives>AntiX to USB worked great. I used Ext2 File System since it is SD Card. Rebooted with Pendrive Pulled and used the new SD card install to boot up. Booted up OK to Desktop.

1. Weird bug with Ceni Connect. Cpu runs at 100% and mouse pointer runs like molasses.
wlan0 won't connect in Ceni. So I hooked up Landline and connected up Ok with Eth0. Will try and run Ceni again and see if it will reconfigure wlan0 so as to maybe borrow the settings or something from eth0. Will reboot after reconfiguring wlan0 and see if it connects or what. Might have to install wicd via eth0 connection to get wlan0 to work maybe. Don't know. Just poke and hope. __{{emoticon}}__

rokytnji · posted: 2010-02-09 17:40

Since above post update.

I now have wireless working in my Base install using Wicd 1.7. I have installed the Meta Package XFCE Lite Desktop. Shutter screenshot. Wicd 1.7. Synaptic Package manager. And edited XFCE so far as posted in
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So far so good. This is turning out to be the bees knees Anti. Gotta rest my eyeball for a bit. Excited as hell though.

Edit: When restarting or shutting down completely. I am taken to the slim log in screen as if I logged out. If I wait a few seconds. It completes the restart or shutdown ok. Just for info.

Edit: Above Edit Only happens on my base install presistent USB. Does not happen on Full Iso Install to IDE hardrive on Panasonic CF-48 Laptop.

plvera · posted: 2010-02-10 00:59

As a follow up, I managed to reinstall rc2 in my old dell laptop and this time it booted fine. I noticed that there was only 1 line in the boot and not the extra options avaialable in the live cd, so I wonder if somehow it's still not right. Ethernet pcmcia card was detected fine. Wireless pcmcia card was not detected. It's a Linksys Notebook adapter 892.11g. In the past, the Broadcom drivers worked fine. Checked synaptic and some of the broadcom drivers are already installed. I'll have to spend some time figuring out why the wireless is not working.

I'll keep testing.
Pedro

plvera · posted: 2010-02-10 02:21

I went ahead and installed a liquorix kernel to see if I would get lucky with the wireless issue, but the liquorix kernel did not fix it. I did notice that Antix did pickup the wireless card (using inxi -F)

pedro@(none):~$ inxi -F
System: Host (none) Kernel 2.6.32-7.dmz.2-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-rc2 Marek Edelman 08 February 2010
CPU: Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (UP) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 1403.8 clocked at 701.585 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x X.Org 1.7.4 Res: 1280x1024@75.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.6.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card ESS ES1978 Maestro 2E driver ES1968 (ESS Maestro) at port 1400 BusID: 00:08.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller BusID: 06:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 25.4GB (7.6% used) 1: /dev/sda IBM 25.4GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 22G used: 1.9G (9%) fs: ext3
Info: Processes 71 Uptime 2 min Memory 47.4/248.7MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.3.14

So I did apt-get install b43-fwcutter hoping that that woudl fix it. But nope, still can't see the wireless card. I've just about run out tricks atm.

oldhoghead · posted: 2010-02-10 02:45

anti,

On this box:

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demo@mepis1:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host mepis1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-beta4 Marek Edelman 09 January 2010
CPU:       Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (UP) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 896.59 clocked at 448.124 MHz 
Graphics:  Card ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x X.Org 1.6.5 Res: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.6.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card ESS ES1978 Maestro 2E driver ES1968 (ESS Maestro) at port d800 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card Atheros AR2413 802.11bg NIC driver ath5k
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (-) 1: /dev/hda WDC WD400UE-22HCT0 40.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 105K (1%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 1.08GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 84 Uptime 7 min Memory 116.8/310.6MB Client Shell inxi 1.3.0

I was unable to get RC2 or RC1 to recognize the network card, simply did not pick up the card, also have an ethernet card that is a pcmcia card too, and neither RC2 or RC1 picked it up either, I tried various cheat codes all to no avail,
this one, Beta 4 booted fine, don't know what changes have taken place or where to look really, but have just started my search and will update you when I find the missing piece of the puzzle. Probably the kernel, but will check it out.

cheers,
oldhoghead

rokytnji · posted: 2010-02-10 03:43

Durn Guys. I haven't burned a Cd yet of 8.5 rc2 yet and checked if it will boot up yet on my Panasonic CF-48 yet with internal intel wireless PCI card yet. It looks like I might run into some road blocks from your posts maybe. Same with my IBM T23 with Belkin F5D 7010 PCMCIA Wireless G cardbus. Going 500 miles for another eye (same eyeball) operation thursday so will be scarce again for testing.

Ok. Booted up my Persistent USB SD Flash Drive on My Acer Aspire ZG5. I had to use a Usb to SD Flash Adapter as the Acer Bios only recognizes USB boot but not SD slot boot. Tried both Flash Card slots with no joy. But works with the USB Adapter.

To get wireless working on Acer Aspire One. I am booting into XFCE Desktop now by the way. I had to go into Wicd>Preferences and change Network Interface from wlan0 to wlan1 to see my router on this netbook. Changed it also from dhclient to auto also. Connected up fine after that.

Anti. I am noticing on bootup (on both netbooks) I am getting a Fatal modprobe error having something to do with Realtek. It is not seeming to affect anything. Just posting for info.

AntiX 8.5 rc2 Persistent USB Install on a Kingston 4 gig SD external Flash card (camera)

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System:    Host mepis1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-base-rc2 Marek Edelman 08 February 2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Atom N270 (UP) cache 512 KB flags (sse3) bmips 3193.98 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.4 Res: 1024x600@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 945GME GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.6.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801G (ICH7 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: 03:00.0
           Card-2 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port 3000 BusID: 02:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 164.0GB (0.5% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD1600BEVT 160.0GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb Card_Reader 4.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 105K (1%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 1.81GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 110 Uptime 32 min Memory 172.6/997.2MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.3.14

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demo@mepis1:/aufs/home/demo$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                  10M  272K  9.8M   3% /dev
tmpfs                 499M     0  499M   0% /aufs/lib/init/rw
tmpfs                  10M  4.0K   10M   1% /dev/shm
rootfs                 16M  105K   16M   1% /
/dev/sdb1             315M  273M   40M  88% /isosrc
/dev/loop0            263M  263M     0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop1            253M  253M     0 100% /linux
/ramdisk              798M   16K  798M   1% /ramdisk
/dev/sdb2             3.4G  497M  2.8G  15% /persist-root
/aufs                 3.4G  497M  2.8G  15% /aufs

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mepis1:/aufs/home/demo# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x11a8ba38

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         637     5116671   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2             638       14225   109145610    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           14226       19457    42026040    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           14226       19237    40258858+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           19238       19457     1767118+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 3957 MB, 3957325824 bytes
122 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7564 * 512 = 3872768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfa1e7fcf

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          88      332785   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              89        1021     3528606   83  Linux
mepis1:/aufs/home/demo#

sdb1 is the live usb (isosrc) section of Flash drive installion
sdb2 is the persistent- root (kinda like /home I guess) section of Flash drive installation. These outputs show what has been taken up since installing XFCE,Wicd,Shutter,Extra Sakasa Wallpapers, Bookmarks in Iceape. I haven't installed a Mail Client yet because in the betas, I remember a mail client in Iceape. I just can't find it yet. Maybe it is not included in Base Iso.

Edit: Tap on touchpad on Acer not working. Works on Asus though.

rokytnji · posted: 2010-02-10 12:33

1. Weird bug with Ceni Connect. Cpu runs at 100% and mouse pointer runs like molasses.

After opening Ceni on the Acer Aspire One. I can say this only happened on my Asus EEEpc 900. Ceni worked ok on the Acer Aspire One ZG5.

secipolla · posted: 2010-02-10 13:52

I finally managed to test it.
pt_BR menus and apps seem to be fine except for:
- in IceWM menu, under Ferramentas, Filers must be either Sistema de arquivos or Arquivos (you used Gerenciamento de arquivos in Fluxbox's menu and that's fine but you can use one of the shorter options for IceWM).
- ROX-Filer reverted to Debian's pt_BR translation which is awful (I opened a bug/patch for that some time ago but it's still open). I didn't check to see if you used the translation for Wallpaper (the ROX app for changing the background); if you can, please use it too.
- the live-cd localized ok in pt_BR but the keyboard didn't set to abnt2 (or br). I noticed an error message at boot time about keysum being out-of-range and 'incapaz de carregar o mapa de teclados!' (unable to load keymap!). But that message was there on earlier versions (beta4) and the keyboard loaded fine then.

I appreciated the customized GRUB theme as well as the new ROX desktop.

I noticed that the live-cd didn't eject itself on shutdown/reboot this time as antiX used to do so well. Did you remove some package, anti? Maybe ejectcd? If it's a feature that can come back, please put it back __{{emoticon}}__

I have to test the installer yet (maybe on VMWare Player) but I opened it, noticed that it's in Portuguese and translated for us the Terms of Use (Termos de Uso):

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O antiX é uma distribuição Linux independente baseada no Debian Testing e no Linux MEPIS.

O antiX usa alguns componentes do Linux MEPIS que estão sob a licença 'Apache free'. Alguns componentes do MEPIS foram modificados para o antiX. Tenha ciência dos direitos autorais do MEPIS.

Os nomes dos produtos e os logos do MEPIS são marca registrada de MEPIS LLC. O uso comercial dos produtos e/ou marcas do MEPIS é proibido a menos que se obtenha permissão escrita para tanto.

Aproveite bem o antiX.

I noticed too that nowadays antiX's live-cd (coming from Debian, I think) can't write to a NTFS partition even being root. TBH, I don't know if this feature was ever possible. I managed that in my installed system by changing dmask to 000 and fmask I think to 000 too in fstab (must check).

secipolla · posted: 2010-02-10 23:30

I forgot to check for the Wallpaper translation but anyway the files, both for ROX-Filer and Wallpaper, are at
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I noticed ncmpcpp doesn't work when launched from the menu (the terminal just flashes) and when called from inside the terminal it gives an error 'Cannot connect to mpd: problems connecting to"localhost" on port 6600: Conexão recusada' (Connection refused). teresaejunior had posted about it being broken plus a fix and a GUI at the chat box but it's buried now. I don't now if it referred to this problem.

Epdfviewer is broken too. It doesn't launch from the menu and when called from the terminal the error says '/usr/bin/epdfview: Erro de entrada/saída' (Input/output error). Actually the properties of /usr/bin/epdfview say it's an octet-stream file and not an executable.

P.S. the keymap error at boot time says 'unicode keysum out of range' and then something like U+ffff. But then it said the same in beta4 and br keymap loaded fine.

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-02-11 09:26

secipolla, you must have a bad burn or something. pt_BR works fine here, despite that error message in live mode. epdfview opens.

ncmpcpp won't work as mpd is disabled by default. You have to enable it /etc/init.d/mpd start (and in /etc/default/mpd set yes on boot if you want it to.)

I'll add the new rox translations (I did add them but rox got upgraded and overwrote the .mo file) and the translation for the terms and conditions.