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[Member srgilbert]

rokytnji wrote:

You wish to run a splash screen is what you are asking? Like MX linux does.

What version of antiX? Full,Base,Core?

Need more info. Post a inxi -zv7 so we can take a look at your install.

Here you go, thanks

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard 
  product: Pavilion dv5000 (EZ533UA#ABA) v: F.54 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
  type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 30A4 v: 49.63 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.54 date: 02/08/2007 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 71.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 71.3/71.3 Wh (100.0%) 
  volts: 10.8 min: 10.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion 
  serial: N/A status: Full 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 
  model: Logitech M720 Triathlon Multi-Device Mouse serial: <filter> 
  charge: Normal status: Discharging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 1.94 GiB used: 687.9 MiB (34.7%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: AMD Turion 64 Mobile ML-37 bits: 64 type: UP 
  arch: K8 rev.E rev: 2 cache: L2: 1024 KiB bogomips: 3979 
  Speed: 2000 MHz min/max: 800/2000 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 2000 
  Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch apic clflush cmov cpuid cx8 de fpu 
  fxsr fxsr_opt lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx mmxext msr mtrr nopl nx pae pat pge 
  pni pse pse36 rep_good sep sse sse2 syscall tsc vme vmmcall 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RS480M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 01:05.0 chip-ID: 1002:5955 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: ATI RS480 v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD IXP SB400 AC97 Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_atiixp v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.5 chip-ID: 1002:4370 
  class-ID: 0401 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 9000 
  bus-ID: 06:02.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4318 class-ID: 0280 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: a000 
  bus-ID: 06:06.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8139 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  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: 93.16 GiB used: 4.91 GiB (5.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Fujitsu model: MHV2100AH size: 93.16 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0097 scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GSA-4084N rev: KQ09 
  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: / size: 61.37 GiB used: 4.91 GiB (8.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  label: rootantiX21 uuid: f0c19494-94af-4d8c-8660-223117949bd5 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 30.01 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: B680F7E980F7ADCD 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 size: 513 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A uuid: A7EA-8EA8 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-3:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID 
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 134 Uptime: 19m wakeups: 4 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 
  default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1602 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by srgilbert.

[Member Irina060]

Hi! This is what dmesg | grep wlan0 gave me:

$ dmesg | grep wlan0
[   37.975704] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   42.638743] wlan0: authenticate with e0:51:63:29:94:b5
[   42.663371] wlan0: send auth to e0:51:63:29:94:b5 (try 1/3)
[   42.665251] wlan0: authenticated
[   42.696245] wlan0: associate with e0:51:63:29:94:b5 (try 1/3)
[   42.701535] wlan0: RX AssocResp from e0:51:63:29:94:b5 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=6)
[   42.701874] wlan0: associated
[   42.770191] wlan0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by e0:51:63:29:94:b5
[   43.269932] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready

This is what lspci gave me:

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M1621 (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ULi Electronics Inc. M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE (rev c3)
00:11.0 Bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:13.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
00:13.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
00:14.0 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series (rev 64)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

And this is inxi -zv7:

$ inxi -zv7
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ACER product: TravelMate 520 v: -1 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ACER model: ALi Alladin Pro v: -1 serial: <filter> BIOS: ACER 
  v: 3.3 R01-A3vEN date: 08/14/2001 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.3 Wh (0.6%) condition: 53.3/53.3 Wh (100.0%) 
  volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: AS06 type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Charging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 493.7 MiB used: 105.2 MiB (21.3%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Pentium III (Coppermine) bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: P6 III Coppermine rev: A cache: L2: 256 KiB bogomips: 1790 
  Speed: 895 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 895 
  Flags: cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pge pse pse36 sep sse 
  tsc vme 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c4d class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,mach64 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~87Hz s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:06.0 chip-ID: 10b9:5451 
  class-ID: 0401 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 7000 
  bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 8086:1229 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  type: network bridge driver: N/A port: 6050 bus-ID: 00:11.0 
  chip-ID: 10b9:7101 class-ID: 0680 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: D-Link System D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 driver: ath5k v: kernel 
  port: 8000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0013 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
  WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 6.2 GiB (2.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SKC600MS256G size: 238.47 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0105 scheme: MBR 
  Floppy-1: /dev/fd0 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TOSHIBA model: DVD-ROM SD-C2402 rev: 1717 
  dev-links: cdrom,dvd 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none 
  state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 232.93 GiB used: 6.2 GiB (2.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  label: rootantiX21 uuid: 6d56f1fd-ae01-4d53-aaa8-fdbe38894e03 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 
  dev: /dev/sda2 label: swapantiX uuid: 9ce7929b-e323-48c3-a480-24db78c5c814 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 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: 45.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 132 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 
  default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1519 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06

This is not a live session, it is a full installation. And what I was trying to say is that dillo wont load and apt update wont download files (if not wired)

[Moderator christophe]

blur13 wrote:

@christophe

nice desktop, whats the conky code for getting “bars” of cpu/ram/swap/disk?

Conky code for the cpubar: ${cpubar cpu1}
cpu0=average cpu usage (not used here);cpu1 & cpu2 are used for this dual core machine here to show each cpu independently. So the lines go:

${color8}${cpubar cpu1}${color}
${color8}${cpubar cpu2}${color}

— this give it color, and turns it back to the default color at the end of the line.

RAM & Swap:

${color8}${membar}${color}
${color8}${swapbar}${color}

Disk: (for root)
${color8}${fs_bar /}${color}
Or for home:
${color8}${fs_bar /home}${color}

Very simple.

🙂

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by christophe.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by christophe.

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

I’m having difficulty keeping track of the mouse pointer on the screen, because it’s so TINY. I just now measured it while set at its maximum size, and it’s only 3/16″ tall on my screen.

I have the impression that the pointer routines were developed on machines using a 800×600 display, or maybe even 480×360; got defined using specified absolute values of pixels – and, never changed after that.

I’m running a dual-boot setup on a Dell Precision M6300 laptop, with both Antix v21.4, & Win10 pro. Honestly, this mouse issue always makes it feel like a small relief when I switch back to Windows, despite all the shortcomings of Windows. (I can SEE again!)

This machine has a native resolution of 1920×1200, and I’ve already scaled it down to 1440×900.
I really don’t want to reduce the display any further than I’ve already done.

Is there any solution to this TINY pointer problem, other than rescaling the display; i.e., a solution which actually increases the pointer size?

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Here’s the output from inxi -Fxxxrz:

System:
Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 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: Precision M6300 v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0JM680 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A14
date: 12/06/2011
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 68.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 68.6/73.3 Wh (93.6%)
volts: 12.6 min: 11.1 model: PS2 DELL 00 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Full
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T7250 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Core Merom rev: D cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 7978
Speed: 2020 MHz min/max: 800/2001 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 2020 2: 1695
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G84GLM [Quadro FX 1600M] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:040d class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1400×900~60Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: NV84 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Dell 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: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: kernel port: df00 bus-ID: 09:00.0
chip-ID: 14e4:1674 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card driver: wl v: kernel port: df00
bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4315 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Dell Wireless 360 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 6-2:2 chip-ID: 413c:8140 class-ID: fe01
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.2 TiB used: 6.73 GiB (0.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200BPVT-75JJ5T0
size: 298.09 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: 1A03 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD My Passport 0748 size: 931.48 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter>
rev: 1019 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 38.15 GiB used: 6.73 GiB (17.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nouveau
temp: 66.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos:
Packages: apt: 2022
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/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
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:
Processes: 173 Uptime: 1h 14m wakeups: 2 Memory: 3.84 GiB
used: 1.27 GiB (33.1%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm
inxi: 3.3.06

I’m running AntiX v21.4, fully installed on the hard drive in a Dell Precision M6300 laptop.

I’m having a problem installing the Nvidia driver.

Control Centre / Drivers / Nvidia Driver Installer calls up Terminal for its routine. There, it says it’s using su, then asks me for the Root password. BUT, the AntiX 21.4 installation routines didn’t include setting a Root password. I’ve tried entering my user password, and tried entering both “Root” & “root”. None of those works.

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Here’s the output of “inxi -Fxxxrz”:

System:
Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 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: Precision M6300 v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0JM680 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A14
date: 12/06/2011
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 65.3 Wh (95.2%) condition: 68.6/73.3 Wh (93.6%)
volts: 12.5 min: 11.1 model: PS2 DELL 00 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Charging
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T7250 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Core Merom rev: D cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 7978
Speed: 1967 MHz min/max: 800/2001 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1967 2: 1486
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G84GLM [Quadro FX 1600M] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:040d class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1400×900~60Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: NV84 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Dell 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: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: kernel port: df00 bus-ID: 09:00.0
chip-ID: 14e4:1674 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card driver: wl v: kernel port: df00
bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4315 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Dell Wireless 360 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 6-2:2 chip-ID: 413c:8140 class-ID: fe01
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.2 TiB used: 6.73 GiB (0.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200BPVT-75JJ5T0
size: 298.09 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: 1A03 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD My Passport 0748 size: 931.48 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter>
rev: 1019 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 38.15 GiB used: 6.73 GiB (17.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nouveau
temp: 70.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos:
Packages: apt: 2022
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/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
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:
Processes: 178 Uptime: 51m wakeups: 2 Memory: 3.84 GiB
used: 1.22 GiB (31.8%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm
inxi: 3.3.06

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[Member Dr Who2]

Hi caprea,

pavucontrol was preinstalled.
I opened it and can set the volume of “Speaker” with no effect.
Here is the requested output:

System:
Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: 1001PX v: x.x serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 1001PX v: x.xx serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1201 date: 02/18/2011
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.9 Wh (97.6%) condition: 40.9/47.5 Wh (86.1%)
volts: 11.9 min: 10.8 model: ASUS 1001PX status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: Single Core model: Intel Atom N450 bits: 64 type: MT arch: Bonnell
rev: A cache: L2: 512 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6666
Speed: 1042 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1042 2: 1058
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics
vendor: ASUSTeK Eee PC 1015PX driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: IMC Networks UVC VGA Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-6:3
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel
resolution: 1024×600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK Eee PC 1015PX driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: atl1c v: kernel port: ec00 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR2427 802.11bg Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: AzureWave driver: ath9k v: kernel port: ec00 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 10.34 GiB (4.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7LN256HAJQ-00000 size: 238.47 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 230.71 GiB used: 10.34 GiB (4.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 127 Uptime: 1m Memory: 1.93 GiB used: 324.9 MiB (16.5%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 2549
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Dr Who2.

[Member Irina060]

I think ati drivers are working now. How much of an improvement should I see? Also ram usage is normally around 70-80mb at idle which is awesome
I did an inxi -zv7 as root this time to see if everything is fine now 🙂

inxi -zv7
System:
Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 dm: N/A
Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ACER product: TravelMate 520 v: -1 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ACER model: ALi Alladin Pro v: -1 serial: <filter> BIOS: ACER
v: 3.3 R01-A3vEN date: 08/14/2001
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.3 Wh (0.6%) condition: 53.3/53.3 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: AS06 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Charging
Memory:
RAM: total: 493.7 MiB used: 111.5 MiB (22.6%)
Array-1: capacity: 512 MiB note: est. slots: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 256 MiB voltage: 3.3
Device-1: DM2 size: 256 MiB info: single-bank speed: N/A type: SDRAM
detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: N/A
part-no: N/A serial: N/A
Device-2: CN22 size: 256 MiB info: single-bank speed: N/A type: SDRAM
detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: N/A
part-no: N/A serial: N/A
CPU:
Info: Single Core model: Pentium III (Coppermine) bits: 32 type: MCP
arch: P6 III Coppermine rev: A cache: L1: 32 KiB L2: 256 KiB
bogomips: 1790
Speed: 895 MHz min/max: N/A volts: 1.6 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
Core speed (MHz): 1: 895
Flags: cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pge pse pse36 sep sse
tsc vme
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c4d class-ID: 0300
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,mach64
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×768~87Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:06.0 chip-ID: 10b9:5451
class-ID: 0401
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 7000
bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 8086:1229 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
type: network bridge driver: N/A port: 6050 bus-ID: 00:11.0
chip-ID: 10b9:7101 class-ID: 0680
Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: D-Link System D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 driver: ath5k v: kernel
port: 8000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0013 class-ID: 0200
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 3.64 GiB (1.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SKC600MS256G size: 238.47 GiB
speed: <unknown> type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0105 scheme: MBR
Floppy-1: /dev/fd0
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TOSHIBA model: DVD-ROM SD-C2402 rev: 1717
dev-links: cdrom,dvd
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none
state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 232.93 GiB used: 3.64 GiB (1.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
label: rootantiX21 uuid: 6d56f1fd-ae01-4d53-aaa8-fdbe38894e03
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1
dev: /dev/sda2 label: swapantiX uuid: 9ce7929b-e323-48c3-a480-24db78c5c814
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 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: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 133 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5
default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1205
Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.1.4 running-in: x-terminal-emul inxi: 3.3.06

Titel: edited for clarity on user request.

Just updated antiX-19.3_386-full on frugal install again after restoring the system from an older backup to the most recent kernel and did a complete system upgrade. When looking into the system info I feel somewhat uneasy now:

CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan family: 6 
           model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 1596 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1733 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 800 
           Flags: acpi apic bts clflush cmov cpuid cx8 de dts est fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr nx 
           pae pbe pge pse pti sep ss sse sse2 tm tm2 tsc vme 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           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 

So there are 3 severe vulnerabilities left, if I read this output correctly.

Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable
Type: mds status: Vulnerable
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable

The intel microcode installed seems to be most recent version available:

$ apt-cache policy intel-microcode
intel-microcode:
  Installiert:           3.20220207.1~deb10u1
  Installationskandidat: 3.20220207.1~deb10u1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 3.20220207.1~deb10u1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Did I miss the correct kernel update to be safe from the vulnerabilities?
Kernel: 4.19.0-222-antix.1-686-smp-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0

Or is this specific kernel not completely patched against these three types of vulnerability? Should I install a different one?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by ModdIt.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

I always have hundreds, maybe thousands of these strange entries present in dmesg output, but I didn’t care until now (other tasks were more pressing):

[86937.220868] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[86937.376717] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87091.289762] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87091.493217] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87162.479049] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87162.931605] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87245.022686] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87245.197732] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87247.041506] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87248.365814] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87315.359517] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87315.817009] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87399.333751] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87399.517787] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87553.565195] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87553.731926] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87707.354013] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87707.811039] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[87861.465295] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[87861.655315] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[88015.584769] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[88015.767957] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[88169.805340] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[88170.257176] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[88171.834543] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[88173.533659] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[88323.806854] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[88323.996549] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready

This is not new, it probably has started when I switched the notebook from antiX 17.4.1 to 19.3 last year. Interresting thing is: There is no issue with the network connection, eth1 is WLAN, and it connects fast and fine and the connection is most of the time rock stable. Nevertheless, I believe this unnecessary constant background activity takes some system load, which could be used in a better way…

Anybody around who knows what this is, where originates it, and how to stop it?
Or is this behaviour as designed, intended and needed and correct behaviour?

Didn’t find much useful on it searching the forum and the web.
As said before, there is (and was never) no issue with using the eth1 wlan connection, it works fine always, except for these strange log entries.

Recent System info:

System:    Kernel: 4.19.0-222-antix.1-686-smp-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: vga=0x0317 gfxsave lang=de_DE tz=Europe/Berlin quiet frugal_static splash=v 
           disable=lxF mount=all 
           Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 vt: 7 dm: SLiM 1.3.6 
           Distro: antiX-19.3_386-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Other-vm? System: Notebook product: RIM2000 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: No Enclosure type: 1 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Notebook model: RIM2000 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: RIM00F0A 
           date: 05/27/2005 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 57.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 57.7/65.1 Wh (88.6%) volts: 16.6 
           min: 14.8 model: ARIMA LI4403A type: Unknown serial: <filter> status: Full 
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.96 GiB used: 1.24 GiB (63.2%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan family: 6 
           model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 1596 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1733 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 800 
           Flags: acpi apic bts clflush cmov cpuid cx8 de dts est fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr nx 
           pae pbe pge pse pti sep ss sse sse2 tm tm2 tsc vme 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           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: NVIDIA NV43M [GeForce Go 6600] vendor: Rioworks driver: nvidia v: 304.137 
           alternate: nvidiafb,nouveau bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0148 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting 
           failed: fbdev,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2464x900 s-dpi: 98 s-size: 639x231mm (25.2x9.1") 
           s-diag: 679mm (26.8") 
           Monitor-1: VGA-1 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 
           Monitor-2: VGA-2 res: 1440x900 hz: 60 dpi: 100 size: 367x230mm (14.4x9.1") 
           diag: 433mm (17.1") 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce Go 6600/PCIe/SSE2 v: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.137 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio vendor: Rioworks 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:2668 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: Philips s SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder vendor: Animation 
           driver: saa7134 v: 0, 2, 17 bus-ID: 06:03.0 chip-ID: 1131:7133 class-ID: 0480 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.19.0-222-antix.1-686-smp-pae running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Marvell 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet vendor: Rioworks driver: sky2 v: 1.30 
           port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4351 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 v: 1.2.2kmprq 
           modules: wl port: 2000 bus-ID: 06:08.0 chip-ID: 8086:4220 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: eth1 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           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: 151.75 GiB used: 79.8 GiB (52.6%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST9100823A size: 93.16 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: 3.02 scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk 
           size: 58.59 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 8.01 scheme: GPT 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: PBDS model: DVD+-RW DS-8W1P rev: BD1B 
           dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
           Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r 
           state: running 
Partition: ID-1: /live/boot-dev raw-size: 8 GiB size: 7.81 GiB (97.65%) used: 5.37 GiB (68.8%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: antiX-Frugal 
           uuid: 19eaea0e-493b-4007-8eff-f14aca40363f 
           ID-2: /media/_daten3 raw-size: 42.48 GiB size: 41.69 GiB (98.14%) 
           used: 36.16 GiB (86.7%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 label: /daten3 
           uuid: c1bc867a-ec28-436d-831b-e47f334471ce 
           ID-3: /media/_daten4 raw-size: 3 GiB size: 2.89 GiB (96.35%) used: 2.03 GiB (70.2%) 
           fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 label: /daten4 
           uuid: 556a43c4-118c-4bb5-baa2-7c997faea6da 
           ID-4: /media/_home raw-size: 20 GiB size: 19.56 GiB (97.80%) used: 16.96 GiB (86.7%) 
           fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: /home 
           uuid: 94021be3-c160-4166-a151-92ad72b26f9a 
           ID-5: /media/antiX raw-size: 10 GiB size: 9.78 GiB (97.80%) used: 6.86 GiB (70.1%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: antiX 
           uuid: a6852dda-0c34-4c4f-8efc-5d458cbaaeec 
           ID-6: /media/antiX-Live-usb raw-size: 58.54 GiB size: 58.36 GiB (99.68%) 
           used: 6.44 GiB (11.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: antiX-Live-usb 
           uuid: 326eac56-4981-40d1-9a28-14376a8aa6a7 
           ID-7: /media/antiX-uefi raw-size: 50 MiB size: 49.9 MiB (99.77%) used: 6 MiB (12.1%) 
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: antiX-uefi uuid: 01BA-8055 
           ID-8: /media/sda10 raw-size: 7.51 GiB size: 7.27 GiB (96.77%) used: 5.95 GiB (81.8%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda10 maj-min: 8:10 label: N/A 
           uuid: 0eb91a9b-ea52-4f5b-9140-5a06f6f73d1d 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.16 GiB used: 31.5 MiB (1.4%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9 label: N/A uuid: 2d151628-e6f1-4e23-a8a6-7820d17b8a14 
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 1 KiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A uuid: N/A 
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 
           Device-1: 1-3:3 info: Alcor Micro Flash Drive type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA chip-ID: 058f:6387 class-ID: 0806 
           serial: <filter> 
           Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 2-1:2 info: Pixart Imaging type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid 
           interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 093a:2533 class-ID: 0300 
           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 
Sensors:   Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured? 
Repos:     Packages: apt: 1891 lib: 866 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb https: //mirror.eu.oneandone.net/linux/distributions/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.de.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http: //security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
           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 139 
           1: cpu: 30.0% command: yad pid: 14675 mem: 23.6 MiB (1.1%) 
           2: cpu: 10.8% command: firefox-esr pid: 19435 mem: 462.5 MiB (23.0%) 
           3: cpu: 5.6% command: firefox-esr pid: 19243 mem: 375.8 MiB (18.7%) 
           4: cpu: 3.1% command: gtkdialog pid: 14626 mem: 22.9 MiB (1.1%) 
           5: cpu: 2.3% command: xorg pid: 3910 mem: 63.6 MiB (3.1%) 
           Memory top: 5 of 139 
           1: mem: 462.5 MiB (23.0%) command: firefox-esr pid: 19435 cpu: 10.8% 
           2: mem: 375.8 MiB (18.7%) command: firefox-esr pid: 19243 cpu: 5.6% 
           3: mem: 91.7 MiB (4.5%) command: firefox-esr pid: 19672 cpu: 0.1% 
           4: mem: 63.6 MiB (3.1%) command: xorg pid: 3910 cpu: 2.3% 
           5: mem: 59.9 MiB (2.9%) command: firefox-esr pid: 32415 cpu: 0.0% 
Info:      Processes: 139 Uptime: 1d 7h 13m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 
           default: 5 tool: service Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Client: shell wrapper 
           v: 5.0.3-release inxi: 3.3.06

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member Irina060]

Thank you! The update went fine 🙂

Here is the inxi -zv7:

$ inxi -zv7
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ACER product: TravelMate 520 v: -1 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ACER model: ALi Alladin Pro v: -1 serial: <filter> BIOS: ACER 
  v: 3.3 R01-A3vEN date: 08/14/2001 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.3 Wh (0.6%) condition: 53.3/53.3 Wh (100.0%) 
  volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: AS06 type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Charging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 493.7 MiB used: 209.8 MiB (42.5%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Pentium III (Coppermine) bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: P6 III Coppermine rev: A cache: L2: 256 KiB bogomips: 1790 
  Speed: 895 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 895 
  Flags: cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pge pse pse36 sep sse 
  tsc vme 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c4d class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:06.0 chip-ID: 10b9:5451 
  class-ID: 0401 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 7000 
  bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 8086:1229 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
  Device-2: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  type: network bridge driver: N/A port: 6050 bus-ID: 00:11.0 
  chip-ID: 10b9:7101 class-ID: 0680 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: D-Link System D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 driver: ath5k v: kernel 
  port: 8000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0013 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  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: 238.47 GiB used: 2.92 GiB (1.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SKC600MS256G size: 238.47 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0105 scheme: MBR 
  Floppy-1: /dev/fd0 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TOSHIBA model: DVD-ROM SD-C2402 rev: 1717 
  dev-links: cdrom,dvd 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none 
  state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 232.93 GiB used: 2.92 GiB (1.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  label: rootantiX21 uuid: 6d56f1fd-ae01-4d53-aaa8-fdbe38894e03 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 128 KiB (0.0%) 
  priority: -1 dev: /dev/sda2 label: swapantiX 
  uuid: 9ce7929b-e323-48c3-a480-24db78c5c814 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 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: 71.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 136 Uptime: 1h 32m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 
  runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1205 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06 

Cpu usage and temps are because I did this command while it was still updating and upgrading. Now Im wondering if kernel 5.x will work but thats for another day 🙂

@ModdIt that sounds interesting ^^

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by caprea. Reason: added code block

[Member Irina060]

Im doing whole disk wipe (filling with 0s which Idk what that means but hopefully it means total wipe). I will sure try to do the updates to the live usb in other pc I havent thought about that 🙂
Yeah I bought more ram for the laptop a month ago to max its capacity of 512mb. For a laptop of that era (came with windows 2000) it was pretty good I believe, in todays standards tho… not so much.
If default install fails I will try gparted as you suggest and make a root, a home and swap partition. I’ll come back with news in some hours because this will take a bit

[Member ModdIt]

Stubborn beast of a machine you have.
Please do update the installer, released version had some bugs.
The packages you definitely need are antix-installer installer-data-antix not sure if you will need cli-installer-antix
unless the graphical setup totaly fails that is. If you just do apt update apt install above packages it should
hopefully pull in anything else needed. Trouble is your device sorely lacks RAM so I am unsure if that is a viable approach.

One tried and effective work around would be to run live on another machine, upgrade system then remaster with the antiX tool
before another install attempt.
Case where I wish I was not far away and could just drop by with the netbook and a freshly updated and remastered stick..

Several days ago I did an install where the process was at 12% for ages, I think because I set the installer to check the disk,
in the end, after about an hour, for a rotating 160GB 7200RPM disk the process went on to waiting for user input which can also
be confusing, to me anyway. If unsure just tap enter to see if the system reacts..

Should that fail please try with gparted.
make / (root) /home and swap, you will need swap due limited available memory then for next attempt
set the installer to use those partitions without reformatting, use ext 4 except for swap, finaly install grub to MBR.

If you get that far and the grub install fails boot live and try to use the grub repair tool. Again set install to MBR.

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

[Member Robin]

ronnie_g wrote:

In you reply you said you were not sure 21 would run on a PII?
What version would be better suited?

When saying “recent” I meant any recent antiX version, 17,19 or 21.
But as you have proven: 21 boots into gui, it is obviously able to run on even a PII (always thought a PIII was minimum for antiX…)

ronnie_g wrote:

21 was really slow at times, and even crashed / locked up

I believe this is rather due to lack of RAM:
RAM: total: 145.4 MiB used: 95.8 MiB (65.9%)

There is literally no program you could start without running into swapping.
Your system will constantly page memory to the swap (disk), so you will need lots of patience on your system.

And with not more than
bogomips: 601
you shouldn’t expect high speed, even when antiX is extremely optimised for resource saving functionality. This PII @ 300MHz hardware is slow, and you can’t get more out of it as what is inside. As a rule of thumb from my experience: an everyday usable system starts with 2GB RAM, and something about 2000 bogomips, with a dedicated graphics card (no shared memory). And it doesn’t make any difference whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit, but 32 bit will give you a hard time in future probably, since for more and more programs are no security updated versions available for 32 bit any longer (which has no real technical reason, but they simply don’t support and provide it)

In case you have to rely on this slow PII@300MHz hardware, no access to a faster and more recent system, you can try to optimise the configs and settings to prise the best out of your box under antiX. In this very special case best is to wait for answers from people here around having more experience with this class of machines.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member Irina060]

I did try “remaster_antiX-21_sysvinit_386_full_kernel_4.4.0-296_01-16-2022.iso” as you suggested but got same result. I will try again with fast boot disabled.
Also, when I used the usb antix instalation I made. I looked for my laptop specs:

System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp 
           root=UUID=e8856052-1dcf-4898-b20a-bf5c7dbf31db ro quiet 
           Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 vt: 7 dm: N/A Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ACER product: TravelMate 520 v: -1 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ACER model: ALi Alladin Pro v: -1 serial: <filter> BIOS: ACER v: 3.3 R01-A3vEN 
           date: 08/14/2001 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.3 Wh (0.6%) condition: 53.3/53.3 Wh (100.0%) volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 
           model: AS06 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging 
Memory:    RAM: total: 493.9 MiB used: 119.5 MiB (24.2%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Pentium III (Coppermine) bits: 32 type: MCP 
           arch: P6 III Coppermine family: 6 model-id: 8 stepping: A (10) microcode: 4 cache: 
           L2: 256 KiB bogomips: 1790 
           Speed: 895 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 895 
           Flags: cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pge pse pse36 sep sse tsc vme 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           Type: l1tf status: Vulnerable 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown status: Vulnerable 
           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: AMD Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c4d class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,mach64 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm (10.7x8.0") 
           s-diag: 339mm (13.3") 
           Monitor-1: default res: 1024x768 hz: 87 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_ali5451 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:06.0 chip-ID: 10b9:5451 class-ID: 0401 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 

Just in case it is useful. Not sure it is but just in case.

Update: Same result with “remaster_antiX-21_sysvinit_386_full_kernel_4.4.0-296_01-16-2022.iso” 🙁

[Member Irina060]

So uhm, the athlon desktop decided to stopped working after the first install and did not solved the grub error. The core 2 duo I did the first instalation which caused the first grub error only boots the iso in virtual mode 1280×1024 which would be fine but if I try to install it to a usb it gives me a “failed to prepare required partitions” when trying to format root. And it wont go pass trying to format swap. I tried formating the usb, using other usbs, other pcs, other formating tools and software but nothing works. This is starting to be a little of a headache not gonna lie. I used super grub2 disk which only showed me windows 7s boot option. Also tried rescatux (from same website) but it got into an infinite loop and wouldnt boot (I tried both 0.74 and 0.73 with same result).
Im starting to run out of ideas guys. I dont know why this old laptop wont accept antix. Maybe due to screen resolution or refresh rate idk really. I only have 3 options left at this point: Use a virtual machine to run the iso and install to usb then (idk if possible), keep looking for help everywhere, unetbootin???