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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Back with antiX and a brand new Liquorix kernel. Looking promising for me that the Linux 6.0 kernel may work well for me on this hardware; today the 6.0 kernel reached an early Release Candidate status.

Regular antiX kernels will remain 4.9 and 5.10, but newer systems can also use the Liquorix kernels if you so desire…

Here’s my example where it’s been working:

inxi -Cb
System:
  Host: antix21 Kernel: 5.19.0-1.1-liquorix-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.9 Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30
    October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2400 min/max: 500/2401 cores: 1: 2398 2: 2401 3: 2401
    4: 2401
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: nvidiafb v: kernel
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa
    20.3.5
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 26.28 GiB (5.9%)
Info:
  Processes: 170 Uptime: 2m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 483.8 MiB (6.1%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.20

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Brian Masinick

I first checked out Antix a bit over a year ago, because of the live persistence USB. I was using a shuttle IPC i3 with limited memory and no hard drive. It worked perfect for the six months or so I needed it for a media server and web browsing appliance.

That system is dead now, and most of what I have listed below never ran on it by choice at that time.

When I got the system I’m typing this on, I started with Linux Mint so I could set up a Kodi appliance for a friend. Quick and easy that way.

For the last year I have been running mxLinux “wildflower” no systemd, on an old HP g62 amd laptop and It has taken a bit to get the list below working on it, but I have done so, and am quite happy with the results.

So now the goal of moving my main desktop machine completely to antiX.

Requirements are weird and maybe not possible for a successful desktop installation.

MUST HAVE:

Quake 3 Arena: All other of the quake series as well, but I usually don’t have a problem with them.

UnrealTournament GOTY: OldUnreal may have this covered finally for me. I’m currently running the Linux tar.bz on both MXLinux “Wildflower” and Linux Mint “Una”. It works flawlessly in both cases, so I have hopes.

Trilium Notes: It is one of the few things that just works for me, and I have to admit I’m attached to it. I do have a server instance on a laptop, so it will the last challenge, and I only need the desktop instance.

PaleMoon: just ’cause.

lighttpd: It works for me.

CodeTyphon Studio. It’s what I like, it just works.
I’ve created the liveUSB, hopefully I’ll get it correct to make it persistent on the first try.

I begin:

Active Antix Desktop. Persistence failed first attempt. (Do it later.)

Did I mention I love the default desktop? I’ll change it of course, but it is a very nice default.

Installed. Everything hardware wise appears to be working.

It says it will take 4.5 hours to move 670G of data. I’m going to the neighbors for a beer and a doob.

Files all copied.

Quake 3 Arena: ioquake3 ran perfectly from the new home. Played a couple of levels. Perfect.

Unreal Tournament GOTY: The people at oldunreal.com have their shit together. For the first time ever, it just freaking works. Only tested the X64 version, but that is all I use.

Trilium Notes: Had to do some updates to my server as well, but I am typing this from within TN running happily on antix and synced with my server running on an mxlinux laptop.

PaleMoon: From the repository. Extensions installed, bookmarks imported.

lighttpd: Been using it for so long from source that I didn’t know until now that it was in the repo. Still have some basic configuration to do, but its working and visible from my phone.

CodeTyphon Studio. Forgot about the glibc issues with 7.80. Removed and reinstalled 7.70, works compiling several CodeOcean examples, and a couple of my own smaller things.

There are still a thousand little things to do of course, but everyone has finally allowed me to have the linux system I want.

Thank you all very much. You may notice that this isn’t the latest and best hardware.

Now it’s time to play.

System:    Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp 
           root=UUID=0e08696f-9e63-423d-a801-e560dbaad82c ro quiet 
           Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 vt: 7 dm: N/A Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: HP product: 20-c020 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 13 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 8245 v: 001 serial: <filter> BIOS: AMI v: F.12 date: 09/23/2016 
Battery:   Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:    RAM: total: 3.52 GiB used: 1.12 GiB (31.7%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD E2-7110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP 
           arch: Puma family: 16 (22) model-id: 30 (48) stepping: 1 microcode: 7030105 cache: 
           L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 14372 
           Speed: 1647 MHz min/max: 1000/1800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1647 2: 1600 3: 1585 
           4: 1647 
           Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acc_power aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1 bpext clflush cmov 
           cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid 
           f16c flushbyasid fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse 
           mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov 
           pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt 
           pse pse36 ptsc rdtscp rep_good sep skinit ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
           svm_lock syscall topoext tsc tsc_scale vme vmmcall wdt xsave xsaveopt 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R3 Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon 
           v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:9850 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Suyin HP Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1.2:3 
           chip-ID: 064e:9326 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.7x9.4") 
           s-diag: 485mm (19.1") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1600x900 hz: 60 dpi: 94 size: 432x240mm (17.0x9.4") 
           diag: 494mm (19.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:9840 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: rtl8723be v: kernel modules: wl port: e000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b723 
           class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: global 
           IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr scope: global 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
           chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.3:4 
           chip-ID: 0bda:b008 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: running rfk-block: 
           hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> 
           Info: acl-mtu: 820:8 sco-mtu: 255:16 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept 
Logical:   Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 4.55 TiB used: 1.68 TiB (36.9%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-60WN4A0 
           size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD 
           rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Expansion SW 
           size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: 1801 scheme: GPT 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW DU8A6SH rev: DHS3 
           dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
           Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram 
           state: running 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 222.27 GiB size: 217.72 GiB (97.95%) used: 12.2 GiB (5.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: rootantiX21 
           uuid: 0e08696f-9e63-423d-a801-e560dbaad82c 
           ID-2: /home raw-size: 703.86 GiB size: 691.74 GiB (98.28%) used: 621.52 GiB (89.8%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: homeantiX 
           uuid: 3b4f8e33-5aff-4feb-bc60-248ebc7c6936 
           ID-3: /media/olddeadtech/EFI raw-size: 200 MiB size: 196.9 MiB (98.45%) 
           used: 1 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: EFI uuid: 67E3-17ED 
           ID-4: /media/olddeadtech/Expansion raw-size: 3.64 TiB size: 3.64 TiB (100.00%) 
           used: 1.06 TiB (29.1%) fs: exfat dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: Expansion 
           uuid: 6112-364F 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.37 GiB used: 32.7 MiB (0.6%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: swapantiX uuid: 0cc9087e-dbbf-4c4b-880e-09d7c6fe8674 
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:       Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-1.1:5 info: Primax HP USB Optical Mouse type: Mouse 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA 
           chip-ID: 0461:4e66 class-ID: 0301 
           Device-2: 1-1.2:6 info: Seagate RSS LLC Expansion SW type: Mass Storage driver: uas 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 30mA chip-ID: 0bc2:203b class-ID: 0806 
           serial: <filter> 
           Device-3: 1-1.3:4 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
           interfaces: 2 rev: 2.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:b008 class-ID: e001 
           serial: <filter> 
           Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 2-1.2:3 info: Suyin HP Integrated Webcam type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
           interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 064e:9326 class-ID: 0e02 
           serial: <filter> 
           Device-2: 2-1.3:4 info: Realtek 3-in-1 (SD/SDHC/SDXC) Card Reader type: Mass Storage 
           driver: ums-realtek interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
           chip-ID: 0bda:0153 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
           Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Primax HP USB Multimedia Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 98mA 
           chip-ID: 0461:4e67 class-ID: 0300 
           Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 71.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 72.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1813 lib: 905 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http: //la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye/ bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list 
           1: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http: //security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           3: deb http: //www.deb-multimedia.org bullseye main non-free
           4: deb http: //security.debian.org testing-security main contrib non-free
           5: deb-src http: //ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
           6: deb http: //www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes: CPU top: 5 of 167 
           1: cpu: 27.3% command: palemoon pid: 30236 mem: 420.1 MiB (11.6%) 
           2: cpu: 12.4% command: trilium pid: 8602 mem: 205.7 MiB (5.6%) 
           3: cpu: 9.0% command: ./trilium pid: 6052 mem: 217.6 MiB (6.0%) 
           4: cpu: 2.7% command: xorg pid: 2005 mem: 80.1 MiB (2.2%) 
           5: cpu: 2.3% command: trilium pid: 6095 mem: 125.3 MiB (3.4%) 
           Memory top: 5 of 167 
           1: mem: 420.1 MiB (11.6%) command: palemoon pid: 30236 cpu: 27.3% 
           2: mem: 217.6 MiB (6.0%) command: ./trilium pid: 6052 cpu: 9.0% 
           3: mem: 205.7 MiB (5.6%) command: trilium pid: 8602 cpu: 12.4% 
           4: mem: 125.3 MiB (3.4%) command: trilium pid: 6095 cpu: 2.3% 
           5: mem: 120.4 MiB (3.3%) command: zzzfm pid: 2165 cpu: 1.6% 
Info:      Processes: 167 Uptime: 7h 29m wakeups: 1 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
           tool: service Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Client: IceWM v: 2.8.0 inxi: 3.3.06 

[Anonymous]

@stevesr0

I was hoping you would reply to me. With that you gave me another idea and lo and behold, now it works! 😉
I simply had to reinstall a few packages from alsa that were removed during the purge of alsa.

In detail for you:
My goal was to realize the “full automation” of systemd regarding pipewire and wireplumber described by me above also with antiX. I wanted to avoid the package pipewire-media-session, because that caused problems under siduction. Therefore I did an installation of antiX21-base and changed the repo’s to sid after the first start.
After that apt update && apt dist-upgrade.

07-08-2022
$ sudo apt install pipewire wireplumber libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra-pulse libspa-0.2-bluetooth

08-08-2022
$ sudo apt install pipewire-audio-client-libraries

10-08-2022
$ sudo apt purge alsa*

13-08-2022 (these were removed)
$ sudo apt install alsa-ucm-conf alsa-topology-conf alsa-utils

At some point in between, I also installed pavucontrol.
I hope I didn’t forget anything.

Thank you my friend!

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

inxi -b
System:
  Host: antix21 Kernel: 5.18.0-17.1-liquorix-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.9 Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30
    October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core Intel Core i7-5500U [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 2481
    min/max: 500/2401
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: nvidiafb v: kernel
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa
    20.3.5
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 25.99 GiB (5.8%)
Info:
  Processes: 166 Uptime: 1m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 475.5 MiB (6.0%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.20

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Brian Masinick

[Member nottambullo]

<lucaola@antix1:~
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti… Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze… Fatto
Lettura informazioni sullo stato… Fatto
Calcolo dell’aggiornamento… Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti sono stati installati automaticamente e non sono più richiesti:
gir1.2-notify-0.7 gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 gir1.2-polkit-1.0 insserv
libigdgmm11 libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0
libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 startpar system-config-printer-common
Usare “sudo apt autoremove” per rimuoverli.
I seguenti pacchetti saranno RIMOSSI:
connman-iptables initscripts system-config-printer sysv-rc sysv-rc-conf
sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
I seguenti pacchetti NUOVI saranno installati:
getty-run libigdgmm12 liburing1 plocate runit-antix
runit-core-services-antix runit-init-antix sysvinit-utils-antix
I seguenti pacchetti saranno aggiornati:
connman intel-media-va-driver mlocate python3-cupshelpers
system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-udev
ATTENZIONE: i seguenti pacchetti essenziali stanno per essere rimossi.
Questo non dovrebbe essere fatto a meno che non si sappia esattamente cosa si sta facendo.
sysvinit-utils
6 aggiornati, 8 installati, 7 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
È necessario scaricare 4.017 kB di archivi.
Dopo quest’operazione, verranno occupati 268 kB di spazio su disco.
Si sta per compiere un’azione potenzialmente pericolosa.
Per continuare scrivere la frase “Sì, esegui come da richiesta.”
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Interrotto.
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ok con upgrade.. grazie, solitamente mi piaceva anche aggiornare con dist-upgrade ma dice sta roba qui sopra
chiedo anche un altra roba .. non vedo la choiavetta usb e la chiavetta bluetooth .. la chiavetta wi-fi invece si
In caso apro una altra discussione

[Forum Admin Dave]

1. I have setup / used a lenovo m73 with an I3 and 8gb of ram and dual display port for a set top box.
Seems to work decently. If a movie disk is needed a usb disk drive gets plugged into to the usb3 port in the back.
The audio was a bit of a chore to setup. Though once setup it was fine. Ended up using a sound bar later though.
Bluetooth seems to work ok with the wii remote and usb sensor bar (can leave the wii unplugged most of the time then).
As far as keyboard and mouse, just used a regular keyboard and mouse with a usb dongle.
I imagine the wifi would be fine, though I prefer wired so this was never tried.

2. No, there are other options.
Mobian seems to be pretty far. There is a ways to go yet for it to be on par with commercially available options (at least on a pinephone); but it does seem to work ok. Albeit a fair bit clunky. I cannot recommend it if you absolutely and constantly depend on your phone. Definitely worth looking at / trying if you have the opportunity.

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown

[Member PPC]

Hi! In line with the previous answers:

1- If your mini pc has a X86 CPU (in plain English it’s easier to say that it’s not an ARM CPU, like the Raspeberry pie and similar devices), and has at least 1Gb of RAM, it probably can be used for most common tasks, like surfing the web (using a light browser), streaming Youtube videos (using Smtube, if Youtube plays too slowly on your browser), Office work or playing music files or video files (for very old or low powered CPU’s Xine media player usually produces the best results, allowing full HD videos to play even in single core computers with inbuild video-cards).
If you want to play simple games (like solitaire) or use emulators to play ROMS of games you legally own, it probably will do a decent job too… If your device has decent enough resources, it can even run streaming services (like netflix, etc) on your browser, even Google Stadia games…
Hum… about your HDMI/bluetooth question- it all depends if your mini pc has the display port you want already built it, if not you can always buy a converter, to plug it in to a TV. If you require bluetooth- you can buy, for cheat a bluetooth dongle, if the device does not already support it- unless you already have a bluetooth keyboard/etc, it’s way cheapper to buy a wireless keyboard and mouse…

2- You can’t replace Android/IOS with antiX, because simply antiX is not build to run on the types of CPU’s almost 100% of mobile devices (phones and android tablets) use. You can, however, use some applications to run Linux (via virtual machines), with some degree of success. The last time I tried that was before I started using antiX on my computers…

P.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by PPC.

Hi
1 – if I installed antiX on a mini form PC intended for use as a set top box would it be able to cope with fan temperature control, multiscreen options HDMI, USB c, display port, wifi or bluetooth keyboard with incorporated touchpad or traction ball and so forth?

It could be either a low end low cost intel Pentium/Celeron type processor OR i3/i5/i7 range along with their ranges of drives and RAM.

and 2 – what is the chance of antiX running on a mobile phone/cell phone?

Perhaps an antiX respin might do?

Thank you

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

I’m going to be away for several days (coming up soon), so I wanted to make sure to update antiX before leaving; note that today I’m using a very recent Liquorix kernel; they’ve been very good once again after a few rare issues a few updates ago.

On this system, every kernel I have works well; I have 4.9, 5.10 antiX kernels (I’ve used the 4.19 kernel with consistently good results here and on my other systems recently too).

Here’s what I’m running today:

inxi -Cb
System:
  Host: antix21 Kernel: 5.18.0-15.2-liquorix-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.8 Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30
    October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2469 min/max: 500/2401 cores: 1: 2691 2: 2395 3: 2395
    4: 2395
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: nvidiafb v: kernel
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa
    20.3.5
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 25.63 GiB (5.7%)
Info:
  Processes: 168 Uptime: 7m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 549.6 MiB (7.0%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.20

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Today’s instance of antiX with the -E (Bluetooth device) listed; using a Liquorix kernel (just added a newer one NOT shown here, and purged an older one):

inxi -bE
System:
  Host: antix21 Kernel: 5.18.0-14.2-liquorix-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.8 Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30
    October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core Intel Core i7-5500U [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 2534
    min/max: 500/2401
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: nvidiafb v: kernel
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa
    20.3.5
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: not found
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 25.52 GiB (5.7%)
Info:
  Processes: 179 Uptime: 4m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 564.6 MiB (7.2%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.20

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Can’t stay away too long from antiX; definitely looking forward to the Bullseye release working on my newer hardware.
Meanwhile antiX still works great on my Dell Inspiron 5558, my Lenovo X201 and two other old HP units; a laptop AND a desktop.

Here today with:

inxi -bCI
System:
  Host: antix21 Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.8 Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30
    October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 600 min/max: 500/2401 cores: 1: 500 2: 500 3: 800
    4: 600
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: N/A
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 25.25 GiB (5.6%)
Info:
  Processes: 181 Uptime: 6m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 453.4 MiB (5.7%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.20

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Back again with antiX and another inxi report using yet another set of options:

inxi -zv4
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.88-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.8
    Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 2021
    base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
    volts: 16.3 min: 14.8 model: Samsung SDI DELL 07G07587587 status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2482 high: 2745 min/max: 500/2401 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 2745 2: 2396 3: 2395 4: 2395 bogomips: 19155
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen8 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] vendor: Dell driver: nvidiafb
    v: kernel arch: Kepler bus-ID: 08:00.0
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 2-5:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
    driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 07:00.0
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
    bus-ID: 2-6:4
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 25.25 GiB (5.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 78.19 GiB used: 25.24 GiB (32.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 98.4 MiB used: 2.2 MiB (2.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Info:
  Processes: 177 Uptime: 1m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 488.7 MiB (6.2%)
  Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1279 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.19

• This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by Brian Masinick.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

inxi -bw
System:
  Host: antix21 Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.8
    Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core Intel Core i7-5500U [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 700
    min/max: 500/2401
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: N/A
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 26.48 GiB (5.9%)
Weather:
  Report: temperature: 33.9 C (93 F) conditions: Few clouds
  Locale: Greenville, SC, USA
    current time: Wed 27 Jul 2022 01:21:46 PM EDT (America/New_York)
    Source: WeatherBit.io
Info:
  Processes: 187 Uptime: 46m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 1.06 GiB (13.7%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.19

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

inxi -BCDGMNw
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 625 min/max: 500/2401 cores: 1: 500 2: 600 3: 900
    4: 500
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: N/A
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 26.48 GiB (5.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
Weather:
  Report: temperature: 33.9 C (93 F) conditions: Few clouds
  Locale: Greenville, SC, USA
    current time: Wed 27 Jul 2022 01:16:29 PM EDT (America/New_York)
    Source: WeatherBit.io

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

… and here’s what I get on this system if I do a full inxi listing, omitting the “xz” that we often include:

inxi -F
System:
  Host: antix21 Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.8
    Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.1/41.4 Wh (72.6%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 675 min/max: 500/2401 cores: 1: 500 2: 500 3: 500
    4: 1200
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: N/A
  Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: b4:6d:83:44:f0:02
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 20:47:47:d5:7c:0f
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: not found
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 26.4 GiB (5.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 78.19 GiB used: 26.4 GiB (33.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 98.4 MiB used: 2.2 MiB (2.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: 25.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2200
Info:
  Processes: 177 Uptime: 16m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 829.6 MiB (10.4%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.19

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