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[Member sybok]

I know that there is a CLI tool ‘xrandr’ (to be used together with ‘cvt’) as in the post describing setting custom resolution in *buntu.
Also, ‘xrandr’ (without any options) can be used to print the apparently available resolutions.

Hope that helps.

If it does, you can create a script from the sequence of commands and add it to autostart/startup during the session (assuming the login screen is not similarly messed up or you can get easily past login) in case the new kernel would not help.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by sybok. Reason: Added print of avail. resolutions

[Member stevesr0]

Hi Xecure,

On the ssd that has antix installed, there is an ESP partition mounted at /boot/efi. Within this is a single subdirectory /EFI.
Within the /EFI subdirectory, there are two (sub)subdirectories. One is named antiX19 and the other is named BOOT.

Within the antiX19 subdirectory is a subdirectory named GRUBX64.EFI. Within, the BOOT subdirectory is a subdirectory named BOOTX64.EFI.

The 4 files within these two subdirectories have identical names, date and time modified (1969) and sizes.

The names are /data, .reloc, .text and mods. Each file is only a small number of kilobytes.

On the other ssd, there is an ESP partition with Boot, EFI and System Volume information directories and two files (bootmgr and BOOTNXT).
Within the EFI directory are two directories (Boot and Microsoft). The /Boot directory is identical to the /EFI/Microsoft/Boot directory, while the /EFI/Boot directory houses (only) a bootx64.efi folder of 1.5 Megabytes. Within this folder are 7 files and one directory.

Thus the two efi folders on the linux installation are small and identical, while the efi folder for windows which was already installed when I purchased the computer is different and much larger.

If the two apparently identical efi subfolders on the linux drive are identical, I am puzzled why one boots fine and the other stops early in the boot.

But, except for a cursor which jumps around, I am happy that the install seems to work.

stevesr0

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by stevesr0.

[Member olsztyn]

Brian Masinick wrote:

Since the themes you have tried do not seem to appeal to your preferences I have another suggestion.

Well… Although neither is perfectly fitting my preferences such perfection is not an absolute requirement. I just pick something I can live with…
So, in terms of numerous themes I have tried I settled on one. Not perfect but good enough. The same was previously under Fluxbox. Neither was perfect to my preference but one was good enough.
Fluxbox was simpler but very functional and rock solid in my experience.
Now, due to being forced to adopt IceWM due to re-emerged Fluxbox issues with Chromium/Chrome dropdown menus I am trying to make IceWM usable as much as I can. One annoying thing about IceWM is that it is somewhat buggy from my experience, behavior is not rock solid as expected, such as:
– Toolbar not always popping up when hovering mouse at bottom of screen, sometimes even after multiple attempts. Eventually I can make it appear though… This never happened to me in Fluxbox.
– Some themes are so buggy that they crash IceWM desktop for good until they are removed by logging in via different than IceWM desktop.
– One time IceWM desktop became permanently corrupted after rebooting from persistence=all to persistence=none, therefore Live instance needed to be rebuilt.

My overall impression is these desktop managers are apparently not being maintained any more, in terms of continual their development and fixing, no matter what they say. So they are what they are and we have no choice but put up with various their quirks and bugs.
Now, as soon as something is working and predictably so, I am making multiple copies so as not to lose such working state…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member olsztyn]

These are interesting suggestions anti and BobC… Thank you!

Now, when I have been downloading and testing various IceWM themes I experienced an interesting IceWM crash. Apparently a theme (do not remember which as there were so many) was rogue or buggy
that IceWM crashed and gave me two options instead of desktop – Retry or Reboot. As Retry just re-displayed the same options, Reboot option logged me off instead. Re-logging replayed the same issue.
The only way to restore IceWM desktop was to F1 to Fluxbox on log-in screen, then File manager to IceWM themes folder and delete the latest, most suspicious themes. After that upon logging off and switching to IceWM I was able to get back IceWM desktop.
Clearly there seems to be missing some error handling of loading bad theme.
However I want to be clear that I am not bringing this up as an issue but rather as an interesting observation…
Thanks again and Regards…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member ModdIt]

Hi jj1013,
maybe you tell us why you want to use PPA, as AntiX is debian based you can usually find all the software you wish for without risking your install. Please also consider a Flatpack package may be available for your special needs.

If you really think you must get something from PPA do heed what anti wrote.

Maybe it will work, but there are quite a lot of differences between Buntu and Antix which is far nearer to Debian..

Make sure you have a full working backup, do not blame the distro if things go wrong.

Do not leave a PPA, testing, experimental repos enabled unless you want to migrate from stable and can cope with problems.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

You don’t. antiX is based on Debian and not Ubuntu. Adding PPAs may break your install.

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

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

Hi all,

I have a newish computer with two GPUs: an integrated Intel one (UHD630) and a discreet Nvidia card (GTX1050). Last year, several different iso’s ran fine in VirtualBox on this computer.

In my current tests I am using a live usb with Antix 19 full iso. This boots ONLY to a command line, although boot messages indicate that the boot is running at level 5.

On another computer with just one graphics card, the same usb boots to a graphical screen in a “normal” fashion.

I suspect the problem is caused by this computer having two GPUs, but I haven’t seen any reports of this or how to tell the boot which GPU to ignore. I have tried adding “nomodeset i915.modeset=1” before the splash term with no apparent effect.

Appreciate advice and suggestions.

Thanks.

stevesr0

• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by stevesr0. Reason: typo nomodeset for modeset
• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by stevesr0.

[Member stevesr0]

Hi Xecure,

It might be above my pay grade. I have not done hardly any making from source. It may well take me weeks (which is fine, as I am retired and “sheltering in place”).

So, I would appreciate some advice before and while trying to install that.

There is a “comprehensive installation guide” that I printed out and plan on following. (Link: https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa/wiki) However, I am not sure that antix is Debian enough for this to work exactly. So, I would appreciate feedback that the instructions would APPARENTLY work with Antix 17.4. before starting. Also, if there are any programs that need to be installed beyond those mentioned in the guide.

Finally, hopefully someone will respond if I get started and confused <g>.

stevesr0

This is just a question, not a problem. I posted some time ago in different words but apparently it missed attention…
My environment is antiX 19.2 Hannie Schaft fully updated, kernel 4.19, but it was happening for some time across antiX 19. Desktop: Space-Fluxbox. Running Live USB instance if it matters on various laptops: Thinkpads X61, T410, X220, T520. Most frequently used on X61.
My observation is that sometimes antiX boots to Space-Fluxbox without the usual two icons in the top left corner. these icons, standard for antiX are file Manager and Help.
This erratic behavior with missing desktop icons results in significant savings of memory used, reduced on my X61 laptops from 188M with icons to 143M when it happens to boot without.
This might be a trivial reduction to most users, but in my attempt to maximize optimization of antiX it is significant, particularly that I can always start File Manager from the menu whenever I need one, so no functionality is lost if it boots without these two icons…
My question to antiX team is: How can I make it permanent that antiX would boot with no desktop icons to save such significant amount of memory?

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member RobK88]

Sorry, I meant to say that I tried “sudo apt-get update” and “sudo apt-get upgrade” with no success. And yes I know that if I want, I can put both commands on one line using the & symbol.

As suggested, I used the antiX package installer in the antiX control centre and was able to upgrade to LibreOffice version 6.4.3.2.

It looks like the antiX package installer uses apt-get in the background. During the install, the following familiar text appeared in a terminal window:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libreoffice-common' instead of 'libreoffice-l10n-en-us'
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  coinor-libcbc3 coinor-libcgl1 coinor-libclp1 coinor-libcoinmp1v5
  coinor-libcoinutils3v5 coinor-libosi1v5 libmwaw-0.3-3 liborcus-0.14-0
  libxmlsec1 libxmlsec1-nss
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-opensymbol libqrcodegencpp1 libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-core
  libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-style-tango libuno-cppu3
  libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3
  libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 uno-libs-private ure
Suggested packages:
  libreoffice-report-builder python3-uno unixodbc libjtds-java
  libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb libreoffice-sdbc-mysql | libmyodbc | libmariadb-java
  libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql | odbc-postgresql | libpg-java libsqliteodbc
  | tdsodbc | odbc-mdbtools libreofficekit-data tango-icon-theme
  libreoffice-java-common default-jre | java8-runtime | jre
Recommended packages:
  libreoffice-java-common default-jre | java8-runtime | jre
  libreoffice-sdbc-firebird apparmor python3-uno gstreamer1.0-gtk3 libjuh-java
  libjurt-java libridl-java libunoloader-java
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libreoffice-gtk2 uno-libs3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqrcodegencpp1 libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-gtk3
  libuno-cppu3 libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3
  libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 uno-libs-private
The following packages will be upgraded:
  fonts-opensymbol libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common
  libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-impress libreoffice-math
  libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-writer ure
12 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 2 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
Need to get 94.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 15.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

I wish I knew how the antiX package installer was using apt-get.
Is it using a different repo when installing the latest version of LibreOffice?

[Member VW]

Anyone with some basic knowledge in mathematical modelling who had taken a look at the structure of the “Imperial College”-model would have noted the faults of this approach and its exaggerations. The model’s prognosis that the United Kingdom would have to count with more than half a million deaths and a complete overload of its health system reversed the British government’s earlier decision to use prudential surveillance and specifically targeted intervention and to shift to the full-control strategy, which required massive intervention into the public and private life of the nation. The leaders of other countries that were somewhat still in doubt jumped on the bandwagon and the march into a tyrannical State was programmed.

It was too late when the authors of the model finally revised their original estimate from 500 thousand to 20 thousand and later on lowered this number even more. The governments had already set into motion their emergency plans.

After declaring the coronavirus a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), agendas that had been prepared years ago were set into motion and the state agencies followed the procedures that were prescribed by the International Health Regulations (IHR) as the international legal instrument that is binding on 196 countries across the globe, including all the Member States of WHO.

Even now, months after the outbreak of the virus, the true size of the threat remains unclear. The quantitative basis is still too small to make a reliable projection.

If the modellers and the responsible government bodies had looked at the basic numbers instead of elaborating an apparently sophisticated model, they would have noticed that there has been no noticeable rise of the death rate. A look at the overall death statistics shows flat lines with fluctuations within its natural range. Even in Italy, there has not yet been a higher number of deaths than usual in the past couple of months. In absolute numbers, the death count is actually slightly down because of the seasonal factor that wintertime is over.

“These are the times that try men's souls" - Thomas Paine

[Member olsztyn]

rokytnji wrote:

But. Your runit reasons mystify me. Works on one. Not the other. Weirdness indeed.

Edit: But then again. Systemd distros sometimes is needed to make bluetooth gear work. Which leaves us out.

My preliminary testing indicates that antiX (Full) 19.2 Hannie Schaft Sysvinit variant behaves the same way as Runit variant for Bluetooth. Does not seem to work for either.
This means to me:
– antiX 19 fully updated Sysvinit variant works fine with bluetooth (Which means systemd is not required for this to work, but pulseaudio is).
– antiX 19.2 with respectable name of Hannie Schaft unfortunately does not work with bluetooth, regardless variant is Sysvinit or Runit.

This also means that 19.2 Sysvinit is not fully equivalent to 19 fully updated, which seems the latest working fine with bluetooth.
However, again to point out, bluetooth is not important to antiX, as apparently not many users care about bluetooth and the requirement of pulseaudio to make bluetooth work means additional huge ~70M memory demand, which is against antiX being lean principle. So from this perspective you may be right on being left out…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

If the OP is still around, apparently it is possible to install according to this post.

nvidia-legacy-304xx driver for Debian 10 (Buster)

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

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member wildstar84]

Thank you sir! I was able to pull up Synaptic on another box to assist me in following your instructions. I had “Use custom application font” checked. I unchecked it and pressed [Apply] immediately fixing the pbm. I’d be curious what “application font” it is using though – does Synaptic have a config file somewhere? I am assuming that the “application” font would be used from /root/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, where I have the line “gtk-font-name=Sans 12” specified, but maybe NOT as I tried rechecking the “Use custom application font” and selecting “Sans Regular 12” (the nearest choice available), applying and it still works (unchanged as that is apparently what it is now using). Anyway, unchecked again and reapplied and everything seems to be working properly again!

Upon further review (from the other unupdated working box) I was indeed using “Terminus Regular”, which according to the bug you posted is borked by the pango upgrade, and is now no longer a selectable option in Synaptic, so no longer will use a “custom font” now and that is no biggie as Sans 12 is good enuf for me! 🙂

Thanks anticapitalista!

Jim

So, with Linux and crypt btrfs, /lost+found avails not, but I’ve had an event happen on crypt btrfs in which the system boots and apt-get runs (so I have runlevel 3 sort of) but:
USB WiFi cards and other USB things fail err -110 (ohai no USB kthxbi), and
xorg is not found

But /var/cache/apt/… is fat, I just don’t see anything called kernel and trying to install xorg stuff gets me asked if I’d like to join the Church of Udev (of course not! I merely ask to reinstall eudev as well and all is cured?)

Clearly I can go find a new HD, install antiX and move things over, but I wonder if I’m missing anything obvious, such as:

A–A way to take my nice ‘logged’ filesystem and ID everything that’s been removed since the last intentional apt-get!
B–Apt cache magic to inventory: everything whose presence in the apt caches would suggest it darn well should be, but is not there?
C–The separate stomach storing kernel packages?
D–Other corroboration that when a nVidia c.f. 2003 videocard overheats to failure, Intel DMA will hurt a system in certain assets such as lsof re: X and USB databases may present.

Apologies, and may aerosols bring you desirable superpowers (instead of imported breathing apparatus, perhaps an affinity to homoleptic mathematical proofs written in R when using runit.)