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[Member ModdIt]

At the beginning of the thread you posted below switch on, no hard, maybe the switch contacts are corroded so you get malfunction, common issue.
Please do not use wd40, it will ruin the swtch. Contact spray which really works is acidic and needs a follow up with a fitting neutralising
lubricant partner spray. It removes the plating on contacts very quickly so must work fast or you get an non recoverable dead switch.

UPDATE – RFKILL list results:

Physical switch OFF:
phy0: Soft Block NO, Hard Block YES
phy1: Soft Block NO, Hard Block NO
(No Bluetooth line)

Physical switch ON: # All listed softblock
phy0: Soft Block YES, Hard Block NO
phy1: Soft Block YES, Hard Block NO
Bluetooth: Soft Block YES, Hard Block NO

Your comment on cheap internal cards made me take a look in ebay, decent cards are crazy price in comparison to some months ago.
The USB dongles and PCI cards stable, for now. We are getting raging inflation in EU, all essentials, food, energy, clothes
prices up very fast. Look at company profits you see why. Btards…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by ModdIt.

[Member stevesr0]

Hi Moddit and Male,

1. The card connections certainly could be the issue. If I break down and open the box, I will check that <g>. The hard drive and battery are readily available, the wlan/BT card not so much (at least for me). Curiousity will eventually force me to open it, if I don’t find a magic software answer.

2. The machine HAS a hardware switch – otherwise it is unusable <g>.

3. The one software thing that the linux wireless site suggests for this card is to disable concurrent use of the bluetooth and wlan radios. I have tried without success so far. The wireless site (and several others) recommend placing “options bt_coex_active=0” in /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf. I created that file and it didn’t do anything obvious. Reading further, I learned that the current state of the parameters for different modules could be found in /sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/bt_coex_active. However, I don’t have such a file. A file /sys/module/iwlegacy/bt_coex_active exists. This file consists of a single character “Y”.
So, I created a file /etc/modprobe.d/iwlegacy.conf and placed the options bt_coex_active=0 in that file. Rebooting, I saw several items booting which stated ignore this line in this file (libkmod/libkmod-config.c:712 kmod_config_parse: ignoring bad line starting with ‘options’).

There is a /sys/module/iwl4965/ directory which doesn’t have a bt_coex_active file. I created an /etc/modprobe.d/iwl4965.conf file but this was also ignored on the next boot.

I accidentally tried to create a file in /sys/module/ as sudo and was denied permission! (I suspect it is the extra attributes that can lock files and aren’t visible with ls -asl, but I have to stop for today.)

So, I would love to know how to make the system block concurrent operation of BT and WLAN on this card…

Thanks for comments.

stevesr0

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

dmesg | grep acpi

Might have something to say. Can you give a

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -v8 -r
System:
  Host: biker Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp 
  root=UUID=fd5a926f-f3df-452b-84d5-d72ac28c3f8b ro vga=791 quiet 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.2 vt: 7 dm: SLiM 1.3.6 
  Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Google product: Parrot v: 1.0 
  serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: Google model: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> 
  BIOS: coreboot v: 4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty date: 09/04/2014 
Battery:
  ID-1: BATX charge: 24.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 24.5/37.0 Wh (66.2%) 
  volts: 17.2 min: 14.8 model: SANYO AL12B32 type: Li-ion 
  serial: 00000000000026FC status: Full 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.8 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (27.5%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron 1007U bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 
  cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 5986 
  Speed: 1486 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1486 2: 1500 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov 
  constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept erms est 
  flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs kaiser lahf_lm lm 
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid 
  pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdtscp rep_good sep 
  smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow 
  tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology 
  xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  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 generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0156 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Chicony type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.3:4 
  chip-ID: 04f2:b336 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 136 
  size: 256x144mm (10.1x5.7") diag: 294mm (11.6") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn 
  driver: ath9k v: kernel modules: wl port: 0400 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 168c:0034 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 3c:77:e6:26:f5:b5 
  IP v4: 192.168.254.72/24 scope: global broadcast: 192.168.254.255 
  IP v6: fe80::3e77:e6ff:fe26:f5b5/64 scope: link 
  Device-2: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: 0400 
  bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:16b5 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 20:1a:06:14:09:d9 
  WAN IP: 98.18.192.47 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.1:5 
  chip-ID: 0489:e04e class-ID: e001 
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: running 
  rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: 3C:77:E6:26:F5:B6 
  Info: acl-mtu: 1022:8 sco-mtu: 183:5 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff 
  link-mode: slave accept 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 14.91 GiB used: 7.82 GiB (52.4%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: SSD U100 16GB 
  size: 14.91 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: 132149401089 rev: 6.14 scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 14.91 GiB size: 14.62 GiB (98.01%) 
  used: 7.82 GiB (53.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
  label: rootantiX19 uuid: fd5a926f-f3df-452b-84d5-d72ac28c3f8b 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1.1:5 info: Foxconn / Hon Hai type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0489:e04e 
  class-ID: e001 
  Device-2: 1-1.3:4 info: Chicony type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 
  rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b336 class-ID: 0e02 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 1679 lib: 810 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/buster buster main nonfree nosystemd
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-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/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 180 
  1: cpu: 61.7% command: chrome pid: 8126 mem: 167.8 MiB (4.3%) 
  2: cpu: 3.9% command: google-chrome-stable pid: 19241 
  mem: 256.4 MiB (6.5%) 
  3: cpu: 3.7% command: chrome pid: 19279 mem: 155.5 MiB (3.9%) 
  4: cpu: 0.7% command: chrome pid: 19280 mem: 133.5 MiB (3.4%) 
  5: cpu: 0.5% command: chrome pid: 19350 mem: 162.0 MiB (4.1%) 
  Memory top: 5 of 180 
  1: mem: 256.4 MiB (6.5%) command: google-chrome-stable pid: 19241 
  cpu: 3.9% 
  2: mem: 167.8 MiB (4.3%) command: chrome pid: 8126 cpu: 61.7% 
  3: mem: 162.0 MiB (4.1%) command: chrome pid: 19350 cpu: 0.5% 
  4: mem: 155.5 MiB (3.9%) command: chrome pid: 19279 cpu: 3.7% 
  5: mem: 133.5 MiB (3.4%) command: chrome pid: 19280 cpu: 0.7% 
Info:
  Processes: 180 Uptime: 2d 16h 41m wakeups: 37849 Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 
  runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: service Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.0.3 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06 
harry@biker:~
$ 

also wo we can look at your install/hardware. Above is my chromebook install.

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[Member stevesr0]

Short update.

I have identified the hardware and the firmware, following the suggestions of Xecure and rokytnji. In dmesg, on one occasion, I noted the comment “kernel bug at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/common.c:2350!”. This caused me to look up kernel bug reports involving iwlwifi and there have been a number of them.

Following hints others have tried to get their wlan/bluetooth combo cards working, I tried to prevent concurrent bluetooth and wlan use by creating an /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf file with the line “options iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0, swcrypto=1 11n_disable=8” and and a file /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf with the single line “options iwlwifi enable_ini=0”.

Of note the iwlwifi supporters note that firmware for devices that require iwldvm (which I think this card does) is NOT supported. Unfortunately, nothing has worked in terms of shutting off the continual messages.

I was able to get ceni on a few occasions to recognize wireless networks, but never connect. I think what happens is the continual stream of enabling and disabling of the firmware and the stream of opcode 00 x 0000 errors simply block functioning. Ultimately, I generally have to shutdown the power to bring the computer down, whenever I enable the card.

I tried using the original Windows XP hard drive that was installed with the machine and was able to get various wireless networks recognized, but in that OS, the maximum security is WPA and I am using WPA2 on my wireless access point. I haven’t found a way to check if the card is misbehaving in the same way as it does in linux, but I didn’t have any loss of control (except perhaps for intermittent sounds for no reason (that I eventually muted) and was able to shutdown normally.

So, I guess I will put this aside for awhile, hoping that a new version of firmware or other kernel modules results in a restoration of function. In the meantime, I can use ethernet and a usb wireless card.

I am posting in the unlikely case that this might be useful to someone else.

(I thought about opening the laptop up to see if the connections were problematic, but the one time I did that it was a VERY involved process and this promises to be the same. And my efforts to fix the internal card are mainly to learn something, which to some slight degree <g> I think I have.)

stevesr0

[Member aluthier]

The Bluetooth manager acts like it’s going to open, but nothing happens. Here is the info from the inxi dump

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=78f6253d-cf94-4365-a2d4-0c843f067d2b ro quiet 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.0 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Venue 8 Pro 3845 v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: DellInc. type: 8 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 03JYKK v: A01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A07 
  date: 02/27/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: TIBT charge: N/A condition: N/A volts: N/A min: 3.8 
  model: DELL BLY Battery type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Unknown 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 886.5 MiB used: 727.8 MiB (82.1%) 
  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: Intel Atom Z3735G bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Silvermont family: 6 model-id: 37 (55) stepping: 8 microcode: 838 
  cache: L2: 1024 KiB bogomips: 10666 
  Speed: 1833 MHz min/max: 500/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1833 2: 1834 
  3: 921 4: 1352 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts 
  clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb 
  ept erms est flexpriority fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce 
  md_clear mmx monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
  pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdrand rdtscp rep_good 
  sep smep ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow 
  tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq tsc_reliable vme vmx vnmi 
  vpid xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0f31 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.3x8.3") 
  s-diag: 398mm (15.7") 
  Monitor-1: DSI-1 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (BYT) v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.5 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: bytcr-rt5640 driver: bytcr-rt5640 
  message: bus/chip ids unavailable 
  Device-2: Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio 
  message: bus/chip ids unavailable 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Message: No device data found. 
  IF-ID-1: 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 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 148.21 GiB used: 10.46 GiB (7.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 maj-min: 179:24 model: SD128 size: 119.08 GiB 
  block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> 
  scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data. 
  ID-2: /dev/mmcblk2 maj-min: 179:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: HBG4e 
  size: 29.12 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: 0x7 scheme: GPT 
  SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data. 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 27.49 GiB size: 26.89 GiB (97.82%) 
  used: 10.45 GiB (38.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk2p2 maj-min: 179:2 
  label: rootantiX21 uuid: 78f6253d-cf94-4365-a2d4-0c843f067d2b 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) 
  used: 302 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/mmcblk2p1 maj-min: 179:1 
  label: EFI System uuid: BB2C-8E6D 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.37 GiB used: 7.5 MiB (0.5%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/mmcblk2p3 maj-min: 179:3 label: swapantiX 
  uuid: daab834c-a6bc-48b1-b824-027d2b46ed0f 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1p1 maj-min: 179:25 size: 119.08 GiB fs: ntfs 
  label: New Volume uuid: BA203F6A203F2D2F 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-2:2 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-2.1:3 info: Dell Dell KB216 Wired Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 413c:2113 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-2.2:4 info: SHARKOON 2.4G Mouse type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 1ea7:0064 class-ID: 0301 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.0 
  speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 1601 lib: 763 
  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.mx.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/megasync.list 
  1: deb https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/Debian_testing/ ./
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 181 
  1: cpu: 96.0% command: chromium pid: 2690 mem: 127.3 MiB (14.3%) 
  2: cpu: 6.4% command: chromium pid: 2305 mem: 79.6 MiB (8.9%) 
  3: cpu: 6.2% command: chromium pid: 2259 mem: 163.2 MiB (18.4%) 
  4: cpu: 4.4% command: xorg pid: 1515 mem: 32.6 MiB (3.6%) 
  5: cpu: 4.0% command: blueman-applet started by: python3 pid: 3025 
  mem: 49.2 MiB (5.5%) 
  Memory top: 5 of 181 
  1: mem: 163.2 MiB (18.4%) command: chromium pid: 2259 cpu: 6.2% 
  2: mem: 133.2 MiB (15.0%) command: chromium pid: 2309 cpu: 2.2% 
  3: mem: 127.3 MiB (14.3%) command: chromium pid: 2690 cpu: 96.0% 
  4: mem: 118.0 MiB (13.3%) command: chromium pid: 2579 cpu: 2.3% 
  5: mem: 79.6 MiB (8.9%) command: chromium pid: 2305 cpu: 6.4% 
Info:
  Processes: 181 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 
  default: 5 tool: service Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06

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@anti:

$ pstree
runit─┬─claws-mail───{claws-mail}
      ├─conky───6*[{conky}]
      ├─dbus-daemon
      ├─dbus-launch
      ├─devmon───udevil
      ├─gconfd-2
      ├─palemoon───46*[{palemoon}]
      ├─roxterm─┬─bash───bash─┬─grep
      │         │             ├─mpg123───mpg123
      │         │             └─sed
      │         ├─bash───pstree
      │         └─{roxterm}
      ├─runsvdir─┬─runsv─┬─connmand
      │          │       └─svlogd
      │          ├─runsv───slimski─┬─Xorg───6*[{Xorg}]
      │          │                 └─desktop-session───jwm
      │          ├─runsv───elogind
      │          ├─6*[runsv]
      │          ├─runsv───rpcbind
      │          ├─6*[runsv───getty]
      │          ├─runsv───avahi-daemon───avahi-daemon
      │          ├─runsv───gpm
      │          ├─runsv───cupsd
      │          ├─runsv───rsyslogd───3*[{rsyslogd}]
      │          ├─runsv───dbus-daemon
      │          ├─runsv───saned
      │          ├─runsv───haveged
      │          ├─runsv───sshd
      │          ├─runsv───udevd
      │          ├─runsv───bluetoothd
      │          ├─runsv───cron
      │          └─runsv───acpid
      ├─volumeicon
      └─wpa_supplicant

Installed Pithos using the Package Installer. Program will not run.

~/.desktop-session/current.log indicates:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/pithos/pithos/pithos.py", line 1112, in do_command_line
    self.do_activate()
  File "/usr/share/pithos/pithos/pithos.py", line 1119, in do_activate
    self.window = NewPithosWindow(self, self.options)
  File "/usr/share/pithos/pithos/pithos.py", line 1053, in NewPithosWindow
    window.finish_initializing(builder, options)
  File "/usr/share/pithos/pithos/pithos.py", line 165, in finish_initializing
    load_plugins(self)
  File "/usr/share/pithos/pithos/plugin.py", line 92, in load_plugins
    plugin = plugins[name] = load_plugin(name, window)
  File "/usr/share/pithos/pithos/plugin.py", line 67, in load_plugin
    module = __import__('pithos.plugins.'+name)
  File "/usr/share/pithos/pithos/plugins/notify.py", line 24, in <module>
    gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 126, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Notify not available

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.1 
           Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 6000 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0J5165 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A09 date: 09/28/2005 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.1 Wh (96.9%) condition: 42.4/73.3 Wh (57.8%) 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 800/2000 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 
           IF: eth1 state: up mac: 00:0e:35:ea:f2:a4 
           IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: 00:11:43:6f:f8:b3 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB driver: btusb 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: 00:1A:7D:DA:71:11 bt-v: 2.1 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 15.2 GiB (40.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST940815A size: 37.26 GiB 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.99 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2602 
Info:      Processes: 126 Uptime: 8m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 414.9 MiB (20.7%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06 

How can I fix this?

Installed apt-notifier using the Package Installer and uncommented “apt-notifier &” line in ~/.desktop-session/startup.

~/.desktop-session/current.log indicates:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/apt-notifier/modules/apt-notifier.py", line 21, in <module>
    from distutils import spawn
ImportError: cannot import name 'spawn' from 'distutils' (/usr/lib/python3.9/distutils/__init__.py)

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.1 
           Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 6000 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0J5165 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A09 date: 09/28/2005 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.1 Wh (96.9%) condition: 42.4/73.3 Wh (57.8%) 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 800/2000 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 
           IF: eth1 state: up mac: 00:0e:35:ea:f2:a4 
           IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: 00:11:43:6f:f8:b3 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB driver: btusb 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: 00:1A:7D:DA:71:11 bt-v: 2.1 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 15.2 GiB (40.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST940815A size: 37.26 GiB 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.99 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2602 
Info:      Processes: 126 Uptime: 8m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 414.9 MiB (20.7%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06 

How can I fix this?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by LS650V.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by LS650V.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by LS650V.

[Moderator caprea]

Which desktop are you using? If it is the default rox-icewm, in the
menu > settings > preferences > TaskBar > TaskBarShowApmAuto should be selected
After you have done this setting you have to go again to
menu > settings > preferences
and click on the “Save changes” button, also you have to restart icewm to let the changes take effect.

For bluetooth did you try
menu > applications > settings > bluetooth manager

If you want to use bluetooth for audio you have to install pulseaudio
Best to do this with the package installer from control-centre

If your bluetooth device is not recognized at all you should give us more information about your hardware.
Post the output from terminal of
inxi -zv8

Edit: There’s also the possibility to let the conky show the battery status.
control-centre > Surface > System Monitor (conky)
Scroll down to the the last two lines. They are responsible for battery status.
Remove the # in front of one of the two lines and save the file when closing.
You have to test which one of the two works for you or you prefer.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by caprea.

Hey guys, I installed AntiX on a Dell Venue 8 Pro. Everything but the Bluetooth and the battery life percentage works.

What’s the best way to search for drivers?
Is there a .deb file for a battery/charging percentage package that people use for laptops or tablets?

Thanks!

[Moderator BobC]

The zim helpnotes system had 2 flavors.

Skidoo’s version automatically monitors what application is active and changes to that application’s notes automatically in it’s window to match. The idea is for it to be instantaneous, so once started its intended to stay running.

My version is simpler, and only runs when a hotkey is pressed, and it brings up the helpnotes for the application you have active when you press the key, or creates a blank one for you to enter your notes if nothing is found. Nothing runs in background, but once running it runs until you close the window.

I like the idea of being able to set the defaults to FT10 by application or not, and being able to restore the original settings. If that festure is included, care needs to be taken to make sure it doesn’t overlay those original settings if changed again.

I agree on adding normal folders.

On recycle bin I’m used to having a link to it, and there was an option to empty it, I think.

Maybe terminal apps like mc and roxterm should be ignored? Normal people generally don’t use them much.

Roxterm – turn off shortcut keys and change copy/paste to ctrl+c ctrl+v (non-standard for Linux, means ctrl+c doesn’t work to cancel a program running in that terminal)

Let me know if there are things I can help with…

Ps Do you think puldeaudio should be included by default? My bluetooth wireless headset wont work without it.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by BobC.

Been a while, but have a new install of antiX21. Wanted to look at some log files so favorite apps antix->Applications->System->Rox Filer as root.
Would not open any files, just blank. So, terminal->su->rox, rox-filer would open any file.

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=d333bf86-4b35-4551-9407-f1b83e3867eb ro quiet selinux=0 
           Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
           Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Other-vm? System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite A205 v: PSAF3U-03600V 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: No Enclosure type: 1 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Intel model: SANTA ROSA CRB serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 1.20 
           date: 06/15/2007 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 53.2 Wh (100.4%) condition: 53.0/53.0 Wh (100.0%) volts: 15.0 
           min: 15.0 model: PA3535U-1BAS type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Unknown 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 serial: <filter> 
           charge: Normal status: Discharging 
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.93 GiB used: 812.2 MiB (41.1%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom 
           family: 6 model-id: F (15) stepping: D (13) microcode: A4 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           bogomips: 6650 
           Speed: 1633 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1633 2: 1645 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 
           de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est fpu fxsr ht lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr 
           nopl nx pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni pse pse36 pti rep_good sep sse sse2 ssse3 syscall 
           tm tm2 tsc vme xtpr 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics vendor: Toshiba driver: i915 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2a02 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Chicony USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2:2 
           chip-ID: 04f2:b008 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.3x8.3") 
           s-diag: 398mm (15.7") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 dpi: 98 size: 331x207mm (13.0x8.1") 
           diag: 390mm (15.4") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM (CL) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Toshiba driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:284b class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Marvell 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet vendor: Toshiba driver: sky2 v: 1.30 
           port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4353 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network driver: iwl4965 
           v: in-tree: modules: wl port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:4229 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 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:   Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 186.31 GiB used: 5.17 GiB (2.8%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MK2035GSS size: 186.31 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 1.5 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0M scheme: MBR 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: PIONEER model: DVD-RW DVR-K17LF rev: 4.53 
           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: 23.44 GiB size: 22.9 GiB (97.71%) used: 5.17 GiB (22.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: rootantiX21 
           uuid: d333bf86-4b35-4551-9407-f1b83e3867eb 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.43 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 label: N/A uuid: 9789e53a-bcbe-44fb-b3bc-e53cc201e0c7 
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 1.46 GiB fs: ntfs label: TOSHIBA SYSTEM VOLUME 
           uuid: 666AB6AF6AB67B7F 
           ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 90.62 GiB fs: ntfs label: SQ004393V04 
           uuid: ACFCBDCFFCBD93D4 
           ID-3: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 1 KiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A uuid: N/A 
           ID-4: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 22.8 GiB fs: ext4 label: rootMX19 
           uuid: 80074dbe-910c-4673-b38c-8c22ef1490ba 
           ID-5: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 7.48 GiB fs: ext4 label: antiX-Frugal 
           uuid: 51b15177-859a-4eb8-a50c-09aeb41f1f8c 
           ID-6: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 size: 24.27 GiB fs: ext4 label: homeMX 
           uuid: 811dd779-eeb7-4682-b69a-43cb840cf515 
USB:       Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Chicony USB 2.0 Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 
           rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b008 class-ID: 0e02 
           serial: <filter> 
           Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 4-1:2 info: STMicro Fingerprint Reader type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0483:2016 class-ID: 0000 
           Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 6-1:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Mouse,HID 
           driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 98mA 
           chip-ID: 046d:c52f class-ID: 0300 
           Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: 52.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: apt: 1603 lib: 756 
           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/brave-browser-release.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ bullseye main
           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
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes: CPU top: 5 of 164 
           1: cpu: 31.0% command: yad pid: 30351 mem: 29.3 MiB (1.4%) 
           2: cpu: 21.3% command: firefox-esr pid: 25868 mem: 259.4 MiB (13.1%) 
           3: cpu: 8.0% command: firefox-esr pid: 25819 mem: 308.5 MiB (15.6%) 
           4: cpu: 0.7% command: gtkdialog pid: 30020 mem: 29.7 MiB (1.5%) 
           5: cpu: 0.3% command: firefox-esr pid: 25981 mem: 136.6 MiB (6.9%) 
           Memory top: 5 of 164 
           1: mem: 308.5 MiB (15.6%) command: firefox-esr pid: 25819 cpu: 8.0% 
           2: mem: 259.4 MiB (13.1%) command: firefox-esr pid: 25868 cpu: 21.3% 
           3: mem: 136.6 MiB (6.9%) command: firefox-esr pid: 25981 cpu: 0.3% 
           4: mem: 101.6 MiB (5.1%) command: firefox-esr pid: 25924 cpu: 0.1% 
           5: mem: 68.1 MiB (3.4%) command: firefox-esr pid: 25958 cpu: 0.0% 
Info:      Processes: 164 Uptime: 15h 49m wakeups: 11 Init: runit v: N/A runlevel: 2 tool: service 
           Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 

cheers,
ohh

Every matter requires prior knowledge.

- Du Mu
The Art of War

I just learned this week that a new version of AntiX was released. I installed the Antix-21 64-bit Runit version with a 5.10 kernel on my main machine, in parallel with my previous Antix-17.4 environment. I was very impressed, in that (almost) everything I use worked right out of the box. I never managed to get AntiX-19 to work with a 5.10 kernel, which I need to support my relatively new hardware, but this time I was lucky. I was particularly happy to learn that SpaceFM still ships with AntiX, be it in a new incarnation. I would hate to switch to another filemanager after all these years, so thank you, Skidoo!

Some small problems I encountered:

(1) The new login screen doesn’t let you go back to the ‘username’ field after you press enter. That would be nice for fixing the occasional typing error. It doesn’t react to mouse clicks, but maybe this is normal. If everything else is fine, it could use a little esthetic cleaning up. These gargantuan fonts, yech. Again, there may be a reason for that (users with very high resolution screens?). It also mentions the <F1>-key to change session type twice in two different fonts (with and without serifs!). Surely once is enough.

(2) Connman. Worked just fine on the live USB, and I could connect to my network more or less easily. But after installing to the harddisk it messed up the boot process. After the message ‘udev: waiting for being fully populated’ (or something like that) my screen went black and the computer seemed to hang up completely. Enough to scare away a first time user I guess. Luckily I thought about switching to the <F1> console. There I saw an almost endless repeat of the message ‘No protocol specified’ (or something like that). I presumed it was Connman trying to connect to the wifi. After (many!) minutes, if finally gave up, and I could complete the login process. Switching to Ceni for network management solved that problem.

(3) Package manager. This is a known problem, apparently. LaTeX full didn’t install. I used Synaptic instead. After updating I *could* install LaTeX with the package manager, but only after first removing all latex packages I had already added with Synaptic. The interplay between Synaptic and the Package Manager is still somewhat mysterious to me.

(4) Synaptic is absent from the fluxbox menu. Sure, I can start it from the Control Centre, but I’m used to find it under the ‘System’ menu. I *thought* I knew how fluxbox decides which apps it put in the menu (I thought it was decided by the ‘Categories’ entry in the .desktop file), but apparently I’m wrong. So can I get Synaptic back in the menu? And how?

(5) Conky. I use fluxbox as window manager, with a different wallpaper for each desktop. The method I use to switch wallpapers calls for Conky-std in stead of Conky-legacy, which is installed by default. But Conky 1.11 complains about syntax errors in the .conkyrc configuration file. I solved this by installing an older Conky-std 1.10 from my Antix-17 environment. But I would prefer to use the standard version from the repos, if possible.

(6) Fluxbox-minimal session. When choosing a fluxbox-minimal session, fluxbox refuses to use the ‘startup’ configuration file. It makes a new one on its own (and thus makes me loose some customisations I made), and renames the old one to ‘startup.disabled’. Using a normal ‘Fluxbox’ session works fine, so apparently there is nothing wrong with the ‘startup’ file. I tested if Antix-17 has the same problem. To my surprise it refused to start a fluxbox-minimal session! (I forgot the precise error message – ‘Unable to handle startup request’ or something like that), but I *could* switch to ‘fluxbox-minimal’ desktop, after first starting a normal ‘fluxbox’ session.

============================================================================
My hardware:

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7
Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 30 October 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (WI-FI) v: Rev X.0x
serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1004 date: 08/13/2020
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
rev: 0 cache: L2: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 86242
Speed: 3590 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 3590 2: 3596 3: 3678 4: 3452 5: 3592 6: 3580 7: 3766 8: 3506 9: 3587
10: 3589 11: 3597 12: 3498
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1280×1024~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV106 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.1
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.4
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: f000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-5:2
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0
lmp-v: 5.1
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 6.29 TiB used: 1.77 TiB (28.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HD753LJ size: 698.64 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000VN004-2E4164 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-5: /dev/sde vendor: Intel model: SSDSA2CT040G3 size: 37.27 GiB
ID-6: /dev/sdf vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A120G size: 111.79 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 85.96 GiB used: 9.94 GiB (11.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdf1
ID-2: /home size: 21.41 GiB used: 4.45 GiB (20.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdf3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.02 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sdf2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 41.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 286 Uptime: 1h 37m Memory: 15.58 GiB used: 1.15 GiB (7.4%)
Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1869 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06
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My .conkyrc-file (with some comments removed):

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

short_units yes

cpu_avg_samples 1
net_avg_samples 1

out_to_console no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7×12
#font 6×10
#font 7×13
font 8×12
#font 7×12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
#xftfont gentium:size=12
#ftfont DejaVu Sans:size=10
xftfont DejaVu Sans:bold:size=9
#xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=9

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus, pcmanfm and rox desktops)
own_window no
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1.0

#on_bottom no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 5 5
maximum_width 180

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 10

# border width
border_width 2

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

color2 ffffff
color3 ff0000
color4 yellow
color8 0044aa
color9 2266cc

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 30

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# if_up_strictness link: up | link | address
if_up_strictness address

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# Possible variables to be used:
#
# Variable Arguments Description
# acpiacadapter ACPI ac adapter state.
# acpifan ACPI fan state
# acpitemp ACPI temperature.
# adt746xcpu CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
# adt746xfan Fan speed from therm_adt746x
# battery (num) Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM
# battery. ACPI battery number can be
# given as argument (default is BAT0).
# buffers Amount of memory buffered
# cached Amount of memory cached
# color (color) Change drawing color to color
# cpu CPU usage in percents
# cpubar (height) Bar that shows CPU usage, height is
# bar’s height in pixels
# downspeed net Download speed in kilobytes
# downspeedf net Download speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# exec shell command Executes a shell command and displays
# the output in torsmo. warning: this
# takes a lot more resources than other
# variables. I’d recommend coding wanted
# behaviour in C and posting a patch :-).
# execi interval, shell Same as exec but with specific interval.
# command Interval can’t be less than
# update_interval in configuration.
# fs_bar (height), (fs) Bar that shows how much space is used on
# a file system. height is the height in
# pixels. fs is any file on that file
# system.
# fs_free (fs) Free space on a file system available
# for users.
# fs_free_perc (fs) Free percentage of space on a file
# system available for users.
# fs_size (fs) File system size
# fs_used (fs) File system used space
# hr (height) Horizontal line, height is the height in
# pixels
# i2c (dev), type, n I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev
# may be omitted if you have only one I2C
# device. type is either in (or vol)
# meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp
# meaning temperature. n is number of the
# sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on
# your local computer.
# kernel Kernel version
# loadavg (1), (2), (3) System load average, 1 is for past 1
# minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for
# past 15 minutes.
# machine Machine, i686 for example
# mails Mail count in mail spool. You can use
# program like fetchmail to get mails from
# some server using your favourite
# protocol. See also new_mails.
# mem Amount of memory in use
# membar (height) Bar that shows amount of memory in use
# memmax Total amount of memory
# memperc Percentage of memory in use
# new_mails Unread mail count in mail spool.
# nodename Hostname
# outlinecolor (color) Change outline color
# pre_exec shell command Executes a shell command one time before
# torsmo displays anything and puts output
# as text.
# processes Total processes (sleeping and running)
# running_processes Running processes (not sleeping),
# requires Linux 2.6
# shadecolor (color) Change shading color
# stippled_hr (space), Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
# (height)
# swapbar (height) Bar that shows amount of swap in use
# swap Amount of swap in use
# swapmax Total amount of swap
# swapperc Percentage of swap in use
# sysname System name, Linux for example
# time (format) Local time, see man strftime to get more
# information about format
# totaldown net Total download, overflows at 4 GB on
# Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn’t
# seem to be a way to know how many times
# it has already done that before torsmo
# has started.
# totalup net Total upload, this one too, may overflow
# updates Number of updates (for debugging)
# upspeed net Upload speed in kilobytes
# upspeedf net Upload speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# uptime Uptime
# uptime_short Uptime in a shorter format
#
# seti_prog Seti@home current progress
# seti_progbar (height) Seti@home current progress bar
# seti_credit Seti@hoome total user credit

## antiX additives examples. Add below Text##
##Battery examples##
##${color}battery: ${color}$acpiacadapter, ${battery_percent BAT1}%
##${color}battery:${color} ${battery}
#${color}ACPI Battery: ${color}$battery
#${battery_bar 11,0}
##Wireless example##
#${color}Wireless:
#${color}essid: ${wireless_essid wlan0}
#${color}IP:${color} ${addr wlan0}
#${color}speed: ${color} ${wireless_bitrate wlan0}
#${color}link strength: ${color} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 wlan0}

# stuff after ‘TEXT’ will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color}${alignc}antiX
${color3}$alignc${font DejaVu Sans:size=12}${time %I:%M} $font
${color3}${alignc}${time %a %d %b}
${color}${alignc}${exec disp=${DISPLAY#:}; disp=${disp%.[0-9]}; cat $HOME/.desktop-session/desktop-code.$disp 2>/dev/null}
${color}${alignc}${execi 60 xdpyinfo | sed -n -r “s/^\s*dimensions:.*\s([0-9]+x[0-9]+).*/\1/p”}
${color}${alignc}$kernel
${color}${alignc}Uptime: $uptime

${color}CPU:${alignr}${color}${cpu}${color}%
${color}Freq:${color}${alignr}${freq}
${color}$alignr${cpugraph cpu0 30, 170 888888 2266cc}
${color}Disk:${alignr}${color}${diskio}
${color}${alignr}${diskiograph 30,170 888888 2266cc}
${if_up eth0}${color}eth0 up: $alignr${color} ${upspeed eth0}
${color}$alignr${upspeedgraph eth0 30,170 888888 2266cc}
${color}eth1 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed eth0}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph eth0 30,170 888888 2266cc}${endif}
${if_up wlan0}${color}wlan0 up: $alignr${color} ${upspeed wlan0}
${color2}$alignr${upspeedgraph wlan0 30,170 888888 2266cc}
${color}wlan0 down: $alignr${color} ${downspeed wlan0}
${color}$alignr${downspeedgraph wlan0 30,170 888888 2266cc}${endif}

${color}${alignr}${color3}Used / Total
${color}RAM:${alignr}${color3}$mem ${color3} /${color3} $memmax
${color}Swap:${alignr}${color3}$swap ${color3} /${color3} $swapmax
${color}/ Disk:${alignr}${color3}${fs_used /} ${color3} /${color3} ${fs_size /}
${color3}${alignc}${execi 1000 persist-enabled}
${execi 1000 acpi 2>/dev/null | grep -q . && echo “Batt: “}${execi 10 acpi -b 2>/dev/null | cut -d” ” -f3,4 | sed ‘s/,$//’}

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My fluxbox ‘startup’ file:

# fluxbox startup-script:
#
# Lines starting with a ‘#’ are ignored.

# You can set your favourite wallpaper here if you don’t want
# to do it from your style.
# fbsetbg -l
#
# This sets a black background
# /usr/bin/fbsetroot -solid black

# This shows the fluxbox-splash-screen
# fbsetbg -C /usr/share/fluxbox/splash.jpg

# Other examples. Check man xset for details.
# Turn off beeps:
# xset -b
# Increase the keyboard repeat-rate:
# xset r rate 195 35
# Your own fonts-dir:
# xset +fp ~/.font
#
# Your favourite mouse cursor:
# xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr
#
# Change your keymap:
# xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

# Eigen aanvullingen Startup apps
# paneltoggle.sh
rox –top=PANEL
xmodmap -e ‘pointer = 3 2 1’
fbxkb &
volumeicon &

# And last but not least we start fluxbox.
# Because it is the last app you have to run it with ”exec” before it.

# exec /usr/bin/fluxbox
# or if you want to keep a log:
exec /usr/bin/fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log

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antiX-21 ships with elogind and libelogind0 on the iso.
For probably most users, this is just fine and it enables users to install various desktop-environments as they please without issue.

Users can easily replace elogind for consolekit or seatd and remove libelogind0.
Here’s how on antiX-21-full.

1. Temporarily, add dev to the antix.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/bullseye bullseye main nonfree nosystemd dev NO LONGER NECESSARY TO DO THIS STEP

2. sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

Do not blindly press Enter. Check that nothing important will be removed.

3. sudo apt install seatd

4. Now we can remove elogind. Check nothing important gets removed. This will also install libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0

sudo apt purge *elogind*

5. Check that all is working especially printing, scanning (assuming it all worked before making the changes above).
Also check mounting usb devices, bluetooth etc

Note: You should be able to install xfce4 and lxde without libelogind0
You will not be able to do install MATE, KDE/plasma, Gnome (shudder) without libelogind0 getting installed.
Many apps in Debian are packaged (IMO wrongly) with libsystemd0/libelogind0 as a hard dependency so installing apps may also bring libelogind0 back.
I’m not going to rebuild all of Debian’s packages, only a select few.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member ModdIt]

Regarding the wallon Post, my android phone is as or more powerful than my computer,
Kirin 810 CPU 6 GB Ram 256 GB fixed memory, extendable, dual sim, wifi bluetooth.

Device is Honor 9X Pro, cost me 23o Euro. Fantastic Phone, as 3 to 4 days between charges
and best of all Google Free. Most of my software is from F Droid. NetGuard from Git brings
ad blocking.

The open source version of wire Messenger, video not perfect. not yet but good enough.
That is from git-hub via wire.com. Will soon also be on FDroid.

With this class of device a keyboard, mouse and monitor, could make a computer obsolete.

I can use bluetooth keyboard, would prefer a dock, driving a FHD screen would be no issue,
near same as it has already.

What is very badly needed is legislation to force easily repairable devices, spare parts for
anyone, for minimum 5 years, spare battery for 8 would be good too.
Require open API by law, and force firms to allow unlocking the bootloader. We pay for the devices,
we should be able to controll them.

Fines should not be in the laughable order as at present. 25% of estimated yearly profits for first
offence be it against privacy or damaging buyer interests. Second offense 75% and for a third sales and
network ban plus all assets consfiscated within legislation area.
That would even convince Zuckerberg to comply.

Not the wish of agencys, remember the parent company of goog and its founders…And EU does not want to be left out,
wants to scan ALL private messages for Kid Porn. Good idea says granny poot, but porn sites are still actively
encouraging fathers and sons to rape sisters, step sisters and their friends, force maids etc assf*#ck brothers.
All with impunuity in EU.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by ModdIt.