Several issues... on an old Compaq laptop

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nailshock
Joined: 01 Aug 2014
#1
Hi to all...

After ditching XP from this little typewritter of mine -Compaq Presario 1722 - which suprisingly on anti-x and crunchbang as well even played some 720p HD rips... well... here I go:

First off: the sudo pass works perfectly, anything I try to install via deb package installer - turns out givin me 'wrong pass for root'... strange...

Secondly: as an insomniac and a lunatic with short memory I dunno what I did the first time I installed and tried out antix, regarding the GPU inside.
Its an Ati Mobility Radeon with 8MB of ram, the system itself has 256 (supposadly might be upgradable to 1 gig - which I'll get as soon as I can find a reliable source for the RAM, and the CPU is a PIII Mobiliy (of course) runing at 800MHz I believe...
So, regarding the GPU I simply cannot get the right drivers installed properly. At every bootup, I see it fail and that antix is running its 'old' or rather automatic gpu mode. How to install and/or remedy this? Is there a direct sudo command for downloading and installing cuz, as I said the package installer refuses to install the drivers. The ones I found were Xorgs I believe.

And last: for such a low, old spec yet dear to my heart - cuz I use it most for writing - what DAW would you recomend for me to run on it so I can plugin my guitar and record. I think something like Audacity (or is it Audaciuos) will not work, looking for something similar as FL Studio or Reason - and I would need ASIO4All type of a 'plugin' to run things smoothly. Since I still haven't repaired my new old desktop computer...

Recently I acquired an old-ish notebook cooler which, when I get the time will turn into and add-on for this Presario to sit on (replaced the cooler fans added 2 x 120mm more etc..), and then mod the casing and the whole notebook in a 'industrial dieselpunk' style to get the feel of a 'real' typewritter. And I have plenty of those laying around as well... so... It's kinda off-topic but just to mention that I want to speed it up...

Kudos to the makers of this great OS, any help and advice I can give I will, but please pretty please... how to speed up this piece of sh... shy typewritter?

Greets and treats from Croatia.
N.
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#2
the root password is not the password that is used for sudo. sudo uses the normal user password. the root password should have been set up during install and is a separate password.

post the result of :

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inxi -F
and let the video gurus see your system report. Hopefully someone can help with your video. I have a sony vaio of similar vintage.

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$ inxi -F
System: Host: (none) Kernel: 3.7.10-antix.3-486-smp i686 (32 bit) 
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.2 Distro: antiX-13_386-full Luddite 01 June 2013
Machine: System: Sony product: PCG-FXA32(UC) version: 01
Mobo: Sony model: Q3-Project version: 1A Bios: Sony version: R0107K5 date: 09/17/2001
CPU: Single core AMD Duron (-UP-) cache: 64 KB flags: (pae sse) clocked at 549.989 MHz 
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x 
X.Org: 1.12.4 drivers: ati,mach64 (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1024x768@87.0hz 
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on softpipe GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
Audio: Card: VIA VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller driver: snd_via82xx Sound: ALSA ver: k3.7.10-antix.3-486-smp
Network: Card-1: Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver: rt61pci 
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:11:50:dc:46:66
Card-2: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too 
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 08:00:46:2f:ab:44
Drives: HDD Total Size: 15.1GB (18.1% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: HITACHI_DK23CA size: 15.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 4.0G used: 2.6G (69%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 1.07GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 24.1C mobo: 23.9C 
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0 fan-1: 0 
Info: Processes: 86 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 63.0/500.7MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.7
rokytnji
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
Ati Mobility Radeon with 8MB of ram
My IBM A22M has ati. I ended up throwing out the ati driver that sgfxi threw on it and just going with vesa on it.
Less trouble and meda-dri and glx is running fine using vesa.


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Mine would throw me out to slim login the second i hit anything besides urxvt terminal.

YMMV from mine.
How to install and/or remedy this? Is there a direct sudo command for downloading and installing cuz, as I said the package installer refuses to install the drivers. The ones I found were Xorgs I believe.

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. Like I said. It is already installed. All you need to do is run it.
Hope you don't break it. But a reinstall only takes minutes so no harm no foul for a insomniac. __{{emoticon}}__


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Posts: 1,308
BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#4
nailshock wrote: as an insomniac and a lunatic with short memory [...]
You are going to fit right in here.
Posts: 7
nailshock
Joined: 01 Aug 2014
#5
thanks to the bunch of you insomiacs! here is the paste from inxi -F:


$ inxi -F
System: Host: oopsie Kernel: 3.7.10-antix.5-486-smp i686 (32 bit) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.7
Distro: antiX-13.2_386-full Luddite 4 November 2013
Machine: System: COMPAQ product: PRESARIO 1722EA 470027-964 v: 0F12
Mobo: COMPAQ model: 0726h v: TBD Bios: Phoenix v: 4.06 date: 05/30/2002
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium III Mobile (-UP-) cache: 512 KB clocked at 1133 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ATI RV100 LY [Mobility Radeon 7000]
Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1024x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI R100 (RV100 4C59) x86/MMX/SSE NO-TCL DRI2 GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.5
Audio: Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.7.10-antix.5-486-smp
Network: Card: Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver: e100
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:02:a5:9c:7c:2c
Drives: HDD Total Size: 35.5GB (29.5% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: HITACHI_DK23DA size: 20.0GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: TF10 size: 15.5GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 18G used: 3.0G (18%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.07GB used: 0.02GB (2%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 83 Uptime: 25 min Memory: 169.2/246.4MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28

hope this helps to help... and i think i-ll give it another re/install cuz seems that fat32 runs more smoothly when dowloadin torrents for example so i-ll make another partition, see damn downloadin is faster to an usb 1,1 drive than to this HDD. oh well... rock out with ya cocks out! ty in advance,,,
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nailshock
Joined: 01 Aug 2014
#6
sorry to bump but i dont quite get this, am root, am sudoed etc and every hdd partition is mounted:

"E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?"

after trying following out commands in termminal regarding inxi and smxi...

seems like i am gettin somewhere then it hits me with a dumbass error
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#7
Use sux, then pasword, then the command after the root prompt shows, instead of sudo.

I never use sudo in my AntiX for years. Just sux. And exit.
Posts: 7
nailshock
Joined: 01 Aug 2014
#8
ty for the 'sux' command idea...\\

fellas and gals... what about the workstation idea? i need to record something cuz i-ll forget my tunes in me head...\
and the damn desktop is getting nowhere back online... seems i need another mobo and regarding that another cpu aswell...
so i am stuck, well not really stuck cuz in a way i love this old piece of sh... shy... laptop...
is there a way to record something via this?
Posts: 630
Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#9
nailshock wrote:Hi to all...
And last: for such a low, old spec yet dear to my heart - cuz I use it most for writing - what DAW would you recomend for me to run on it so I can plugin my guitar and record. I think something like Audacity (or is it Audaciuos) will not work, looking for something similar as FL Studio or Reason - and I would need ASIO4All type of a 'plugin' to run things smoothly. Since I still haven't repaired my new old desktop computer...
Myself I use Jack, and LMMS for recording , and editing music with anitX. But I don't think it will work well with the low specs you have.
Both qjackctl and LMMS are in the Debian repositories. If you want to give it a try.
Posts: 7
nailshock
Joined: 01 Aug 2014
#10
Eino wrote:
nailshock wrote:Hi to all...
And last: for such a low, old spec yet dear to my heart - cuz I use it most for writing - what DAW would you recomend for me to run on it so I can plugin my guitar and record. I think something like Audacity (or is it Audaciuos) will not work, looking for something similar as FL Studio or Reason - and I would need ASIO4All type of a 'plugin' to run things smoothly. Since I still haven't repaired my new old desktop computer...
Myself I use Jack, and LMMS for recording , and editing music with anitX. But I don't think it will work well with the low specs you have.
Both qjackctl and LMMS are in the Debian repositories. If you want to give it a try.

Ty... will try it out...

What do you play if I might ask? Anything recorded and online? Soundclouded, mySpaced?
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jdmeaux1952
Joined: 01 Nov 2013
#11
nailshock wrote:Hi.... as an insomniac and a lunatic with short memory....
N.
You are perfect for this forum. I might try writing a message one day and not get it finished until the next. __{{emoticon}}__

JD
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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#12
nailshock wrote: What do you play if I might ask? Anything recorded and online? Soundclouded, mySpaced?
I have a portable grand piano I do mostly piano, music, and some other midi music.
Here is my profile on SoundCloud.
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I also tutor musical theory, reading music, and the piano. That's what has been keeping me busy lately.