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[Moderator caprea]

The kernel is 4.9.0-279-antix, the card is GeForce 8400M GS

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.0 
  Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: MEDION product: WIM2170 v: 20 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: MEDION model: WIM2170 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 1.05 
  date: 11/01/2007 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.4 Wh (54.9%) condition: 48.1/79.9 Wh (60.1%) 
  volts: 12.5 min: 11.1 model: FOX-LGC-72 WIS_ME3 status: Charging 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Core Merom rev: D cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6650 
  Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1000 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] vendor: Wistron driver: nvidia 
  v: 340.108 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) Webcam (UVC) type: USB 
  driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1:2 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 8400M GS/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Wistron driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet 
  vendor: Wistron RTL8101e Medion WIM 2210 Notebook PC driver: r8169 
  v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 4000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Foxconn driver: ath5k v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 29.82 GiB used: 4.35 GiB (14.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: C3000.6-M032 size: 29.82 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 7.8 GiB used: 4.35 GiB (55.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: 32.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 157 Uptime: 1m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 386.2 MiB (9.8%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1650 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

Out of curiosity I just installed the 5.10.88-antix.1-amd64-smp-1 kernel and headers with synaptic and the build looked good, I didn’t reboot until now, though.
Please wait.

In the driver-installer you have to check to look for the backports,too.

[Member Abigail]

Hey, sorry, I didn’t know if you needed the output before or after having the Geode driver installed.

That was the output with it installed, and I can’t start Xfce with it (black screen). I have uninstalled it and now I’m running Xfce. Here’s the output now:

System:    Host: AbiPC Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i586 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: antiX-21_386-core Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Packard Bell NEC product: 00000000000000000000000 v: N/A 
           serial: <superuser required> Chassis: Packard Bell BV type: 13 
           v: ������ serial: <superuser required> 
           Mobo: Packard Bell BV model: SA Series v: Rev 1.00 serial: <superuser required> 
           BIOS: Insyde v: S18_V0.5_EC0.8 date: Built: 06/21/2007 
Memory:    RAM: total: 992 MiB used: 152.9 MiB (15.4%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Geode Integrated by AMD PCS bits: 32 type: UP arch: Geode 
           rev: 2 cache: L2: 128 KiB bogomips: 996 
           Speed: 498 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 498 
           Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch clflush cmov cx8 de fpu mmx mmxext msr pge pse sep 
           tsc vmmcall 
Graphics:  Message: No device data found. 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver: loaded: vesa 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting alternate: geode resolution: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 
           Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing. 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD CS5536 [Geode companion] Audio vendor: Inventec driver: snd_cs5535audio 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:0f.3 chip-ID: 1022:2093 class-ID: 0401 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter vendor: Inventec 
           driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: cd00 bus-ID: 00:0d.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8139 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:a0:d1:c2:c1:54 
           Device-2: Qcom Usb2Wlan type: USB driver: N/A bus-ID: 1-4.2:5 chip-ID: 18e8:6206 
           class-ID: 0000 serial: 101d350112 
           WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB driver: btusb 
           v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-3:2 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001 
           Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: not found rfk-block: 
           hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends 
Logical:   Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 3.87 GiB (5.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS541680J9AT00 size: 74.53 GiB speed: <unknown> 
           type: N/A serial: SB0242SGFDRMVH rev: A70H scheme: MBR 
           Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 71.8 GiB used: 3.87 GiB (5.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: N/A 
           uuid: 128e9a3a-1bdb-4d91-8b1c-bb54917a06c2 
Swap:      Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda2 size: 1.03 GiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A uuid: N/A 
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 
           Hub-2: 1-4:3 info: Standard Microsystems USB 2.0 Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           power: 2mA chip-ID: 0424:2503 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-4.1:4 info: Dialogue PenMount USB type: Mouse driver: hid-penmount,usbhid 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 14e1:6000 class-ID: 0301 
           Device-2: 1-4.2:5 info: Qcom Usb2Wlan type: WiFi driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
           speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 18e8:6206 class-ID: 0000 serial: 101d350112 
           Hub-3: 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 
           Device-1: 2-3:2 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) 
           type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a12:0001 
           class-ID: e001 
Sensors:   Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check --recommends 
Info:      Processes: 122 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 2 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
           Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1050 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 
           running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.06

[Member roland]

This marathon is solved !! I now have a new working install of Manolis Glezos 19.3 on this laptop, which at present I prefer to Grup Yorum 21, as I am still finding odd things 19.3 offers that 21 as yet does not.

I have to thank all of you contributors, but most of all anticapitalista, whose advice and suggestion to run the install using cli-installer AFTER making sure the installer was updated. I ran a general update with apt update then apt dist-upgrade, and requesting grub to be installed on the efi partition, all went just as he said it should and I now have this troublesome little laptop back in working order with all the advantages that the step up from 17 to 19.3 offers. And I have my root swap and home partitions where I wanted them, and grub in the efi partition.

The question remains, what does the cli-installer know that the graphical installer doesn’t ?

It just shows what a fine community of users experts and enthusiasts we have in this forum, so thanks once more to all of you, and especially to anticapitalista !

Best wishes, and sorry from me for my being so slow and stupid at times !!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by roland.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by roland.

[Member Abigail]

System:
  Host: AbiPC Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i586 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 10.2.1 Console: tty 1 DM: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: antiX-21_386-core Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Packard Bell NEC product: 00000000000000000000000 
  v: N/A serial: N/A Chassis: Packard Bell BV type: 13 
  v: ñÑÑÑѕ serial: 50424E 
  Mobo: Packard Bell BV model: SA Series v: Rev 1.00 serial: 0123456789 
  BIOS: Insyde v: S18_V0.5_EC0.8 date: Built: 06/21/2007 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.0 Wh condition: N/A volts: 19.0 min: 19.0 
  model: NBP3A61 type: Li-ion serial: 0000 status: Unknown 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 992.2 MiB used: 80.5 MiB (8.1%) 
  Array-1: capacity: 1024 MiB slots: 1 EC: None max-module-size: 1024 MiB 
  note: est. 
  Device-1: Slot0 size: 1024 MiB speed: N/A type: DDR detail: edo 
  bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: N/A part-no: Not Specified 
  serial: Not Specified 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Geode Integrated by AMD PCS bits: 32 type: UP 
  arch: Geode rev: 2 cache: L2: 128 KiB bogomips: 996 
  Speed: 498 MHz min/max: N/A volts: 1.2 V ext-clock: 33 MHz 
  Core speed (MHz): 1: 498 
  Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch clflush cmov cx8 de fpu mmx mmxext msr 
  pge pse sep tsc vmmcall 
Graphics:
  Message: No device data found. 
  Display: server: X.org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: geode 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: 80x25 
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing. 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD CS5536 [Geode companion] Audio vendor: Inventec 
  driver: snd_cs5535audio v: kernel bus-ID: 00:0f.3 chip-ID: 1022:2093 
  class-ID: 0401 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Inventec driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: cd00 bus-ID: 00:0d.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8139 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:a0:d1:c2:c1:54 
  Device-2: Qcom Usb2Wlan type: USB driver: N/A bus-ID: 1-4.2:5 
  chip-ID: 18e8:6206 class-ID: 0000 serial: 101d350112 
  WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB 
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-3:2 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: not found 
  rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 2.72 GiB (3.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS541680J9AT00 size: 74.53 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: SB0242SGFDRMVH rev: A70H scheme: MBR 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 71.8 GiB used: 2.72 GiB (3.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  label: N/A uuid: 128e9a3a-1bdb-4d91-8b1c-bb54917a06c2 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 size: 1.03 GiB fs: N/A label: N/A uuid: N/A 
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 
  Hub-2: 1-4:3 info: Standard Microsystems USB 2.0 Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 2mA chip-ID: 0424:2503 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-4.1:4 info: Dialogue PenMount USB type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-penmount,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 14e1:6000 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 1-4.2:5 info: Qcom Usb2Wlan type: WiFi driver: N/A interfaces: 1 
  rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 18e8:6206 class-ID: 0000 
  serial: 101d350112 
  Hub-3: 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 
  Device-1: 2-3:2 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) 
  type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001 
Sensors:
  Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check --recommends 
Info:
  Processes: 109 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 2 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 
  default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 948 
  Shell: Bash (login) v: 5.1.4 running-in: tty 1 inxi: 3.3.06 

It was kind of hard to even run a Javascript supporting browser in here to just post this repply but Palemoon-nonSSE2 seems to work amazinlgly decent! 🙂

[Member roland]

I may now have something more positive to offer after running partition checks.

Partition table type is gtp.

esp partition is formatted fat32, boot and esp flags set. I swapped off, unmounted all 3 partitions, esp, /root, /home. Submitted checks for esp, /root, /home. Ran these checks. The esp check fails with ‘grow file system to fill the partition 00:00:00 ( ERROR )’ ‘GNU Parted cannot resize this partition to this size. We’re working on it!’ (see Gparted diag 1). Gparted has only just created this partition a few minutes ago.

Formatted esp partition to fat16, reran check, check finished ok. I have read that the esp partition must be fat32 format. Gparted seems to think it must be fat16.

/root partition is formatted ext4. Ran /root partition check. Root check fails with ‘partition already mounted’, (see Gparted diag 2). Root partition was NOT mounted when I ran the check. The check option is greyed out if the partition is mounted and cannot be selected. Something mounted it after I set the check going. Nothing else was running.

I’m not sure where all this is leading but I smell a possible problem with either Gparted, or with the install routine, or with the information I have regarding their use, or perhaps my shortage of it.

Please disregard the remark I made earlier about serial checks failing then succeeding when repeated, I am going round in circles in a maze of screenshots and partition creations formats and deletions!

Attachments:

1. 

   esp_fat32_check_fail.jpg
   

2. 

   gparted_details_esp.pdf
   

3. 

   esp_fat16_check_ok.jpg
   

4. 

   gparted_details_root.pdf
   

[Member roland]

I wrote a new partition table type MS-dos, created esp fat32, swap, /root ext3, unmounted, ran the install on existing partitions – failed formatting /root.

Wrote new partition table type gtp, created esp fat32, swap, /root ext4, /home ext4, unmounted, ran check on each in turn, esp check fails, root check fails, home check fails. Then ran same checks in reverse order, home check ok, root check ok, esp check fails. I will repeat this tonight just to confirm what I have just written.

I am not sure how to invoke the cli-installer. When I select the installer icon it does not offer me a keyboard install, only the graphics install. Should I run cli-install as a bash from a terminal?

I now feel as if this laptop is in perfect working order as the check routines I ran which completed ok, ran for long enough to suggest that the HD was being processed at block level, 64g is not large. The esp partition check which fails did so immediately, although 256mb is not many blocks to read.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by roland.

Attachments:

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   install_esp_swap_roothome_ext3.jpg
   

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   ext3_attempt_fail.jpg
   

Hi Guys, I installed antiX-21 Grup Yorum 32-bit version on my HP mini 5103 laptop and looks like that there is some issue with FAN control as it never stops even without CPU work… It looks like that it is regulated to low RPM at startup (booting, log-in), after some time (usage) with higher CPU load RPM increases correctly but never go back to low RPM even there is no CPU load. Then CPU is cool down to 35dC which I think is unnecessarily low.

It is also strange as I can see 1GHz clock freq for CPU, but Intel Atom N550 should have maximum clock 1.5 GHz.

It seems that some virtual sensors below do not change at all (temp2, temp4-6)

Do you know what could be a problem and how to solve it? What are the target temperatures for this CPU?

Functional keys (backlight, sound intensity, etc.) are more or less functional.

Thanks in advance!

$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +44.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp2: +47.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp3: +42.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp4: +39.0°C (crit = +73.0°C)
temp5: +24.9°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp6: +70.0°C (crit = +110.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +41.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +35.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)

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$ sudo pwmconfig
# pwmconfig version 3.6.0
This program will search your sensors for pulse width modulation (pwm)
controls, and test each one to see if it controls a fan on
your motherboard. Note that many motherboards do not have pwm
circuitry installed, even if your sensor chip supports pwm.

We will attempt to briefly stop each fan using the pwm controls.
The program will attempt to restore each fan to full speed
after testing. However, it is ** very important ** that you
physically verify that the fans have been to full speed
after the program has completed.

/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

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$ inxi -Fz
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.1 
  Distro: antiX-21_386-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Mini 5103 v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1608 v: KBC Version 92.05 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68PGP Ver. F.03 date: 01/06/2011 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 27.1 Wh (57.7%) condition: 47.0/57.7 Wh (81.4%) 
  volts: 11.5 min: 11.1 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Atom N550 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: 
  L2: 512 KiB 
  Speed: 1000 MHz max: 1000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1000 3: 1000 
  4: 1000 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics 
  driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) Webcam type: USB 
  driver: uvcvideo 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M x86/MMX/SSE2 
  v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter driver: wl 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB] 
  driver: sky2 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM2070 Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR type: USB driver: btusb 
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: running 
  rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 3.9 GiB (1.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS725032A9A364 size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 289.39 GiB used: 3.9 GiB (1.3%) 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: 45.0 C mobo: 39.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 173 Uptime: 13m Memory: 1.95 GiB used: 496.3 MiB (24.9%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06

I am having problems with the wifi on my Dell Latitude D620 laptop running antiX 21.
I have always used a cable with it, but I would like to also have the wireless working.
Conman is showing the wireless as connected.
The internet is extremely slow and times out on most sites. It will open antiX forum site after a 30 sec wait. It will not open gmail or news sites. With a cable, sites open in 2 to 5 seconds.

Below is the inxi -F:

user@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.4 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D620 v: N/A 
  serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0FT292 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A07 
  date: 12/18/2006 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0% condition: 0.0/57.7 Wh (0.1%) volts: 8.7 min: 11.1 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 T7200 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: 
  L2: 4 MiB 
  Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1333 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics 
  driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel 
  resolution: 1440x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: Tenx USB AUDIO type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-294-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express 
  driver: tg3 
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:18:8b:bf:78:38 
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11a/b/g driver: b43-pci-bridge 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:19:7d:99:70:94 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 6.62 GiB (8.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS541680J9SA00 size: 74.53 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 69.11 GiB used: 6.62 GiB (9.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.75 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 170 Uptime: 3h 36m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 1.4 GiB (47.9%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06

• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by greyowl.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by greyowl.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member DaveW]

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts about Thinkpads and trustworthy models. I will keep my eyes open.

Moddit,
I don’t think it is a heat problem, because the issue seems to occur within the first few seconds or minutes after start-up. If it gets past the first 30 minutes, it will usually run all day.

I replaced the Bios battery a few months ago. But it didn’t make a difference. The old battery was a little low, but not dead.

I did try the 5.10.xxx kernel (with similar issues). I don’t remember whether I tried the 4.19.xxx kernel (but probably).

Edit: An important note, which was left out of original: I am running this unit without a main battery (directly from AC power supply/charger). It is being used as desktop, never portable.

Here is a portion of INXI info:

System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-294-antix.1-486-smp 
           root=UUID=396941a0-ff65-41e0-ae0e-82798778afea ro vga=791 quiet apparmor=1 
           security=apparmor 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 info: icewmtray dm: SLiM 1.3.4 
           Distro: antiX-17.1_386-base Heather Heyer 17 March 2018 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D620 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 8 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0FT292 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A10 date: 05/16/2008 
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.96 GiB used: 951.6 MiB (47.5%) 
           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 Core2 T5600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom family: 6 
           model-id: F (15) stepping: 2 microcode: 57 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 7323 
           Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1333 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de 
           ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est fpu fxsr ht lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nx pae 
           pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni pse pse36 sep ss sse sse2 ssse3 tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx 
           xtpr 
           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: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:27a2 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,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: LVDS1 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 dpi: 108 size: 300x190mm (11.8x7.5") 
           diag: 355mm (14") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 
           direct render: Yes 

A couple of years ago, I replaced the mainboard. The new one is:
Board: Dell Inc. 0FT292
Serial Number: .HM8TWC1.CN1296174ED994.

Processor info (lscpu):

Architecture:          i686
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                2
On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    2
Socket(s):             1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 15
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz
Stepping:              2
CPU MHz:               1833.000
CPU max MHz:           1833.0000
CPU min MHz:           1000.0000
BogoMIPS:              3661.65
Virtualization:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              2048K
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow dtherm

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by DaveW. Reason: a line of information was ommitted from original

[Member joaopaulo]

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.4 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Other-vm? System: LOGIN product: PC-A1005 v: IP-M12.62.24 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LOGIN model: PC-A1005 v: IP-M12.62.24 serial: <filter> BIOS: INSYDE 
  v: IP-M12.62.24 date: 01/12/2011 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 5.7 Wh (51.4%) condition: 11.1/25.5 Wh (43.3%) 
  volts: 11.6 min: 11.6 model: LOGIN BT-A004 status: Charging 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Atom N455 bits: 64 type: MT arch: Bonnell 
  rev: A cache: L2: 512 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6666 
  Speed: 1655 MHz min/max: 1000/1666 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1655 2: 1658 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
  Device-2: Importek 1.3Mega Web Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-2:3 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel 
  resolution: 1024x600~60Hz 
  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 
  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: yes 
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 6000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 
  v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 10.95 GiB (3.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF032 size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 292.4 GiB used: 10.95 GiB (3.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 150 Uptime: 1h 29m Memory: 1.93 GiB used: 1 GiB (52.1%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1753 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

[Member mkrueger]

Well, then I also use Google Translate. 🙂
I entered the commands, but there was no change.

Would it be a way to go back to antiX 19 and then use the “testing” branch for current software? With antiX 19 I did not have these problems, but many programmers were outdated (for example Scribus, which I need in a newer version).

But actually I would rather solve the problem correctly and learn.

$ dmesg | grep firmware
[   24.515076] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 784.2 (2012-08-15 21:35:19)
[ 1931.171048] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 784.2 (2012-08-15 21:35:19)
[ 2157.148047] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 784.2 (2012-08-15 21:35:19)

$ dmesg | grep BCM4318

$ rfkill unblock wlan
$ rfkill list wlan
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

$ inxi -zv7
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.4 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D600 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0T9369 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A15 
  date: 01/26/2005 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.0 Wh (99.3%) condition: 44.3/57.7 Wh (76.7%) 
  volts: 12.5 min: 11.1 model: Samsung SDI DELL MT2648 type: Li-ion 
  serial: <filter> status: Charging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 1.97 GiB used: 415.1 MiB (20.6%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan 
  rev: 6 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 3197 
  Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 600/1600 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600 
  Flags: acpi bts clflush cmov cx8 de dts est fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr 
  pbe pge pse sep ss sse sse2 tm tm2 tsc vme 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RV250/M9 GL [Mobility FireGL 9000/Radeon 9000] vendor: Dell 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c66 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI R200 (RV250 4C66) x86/MMX/SSE2 DRI2 
  v: 1.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.5 chip-ID: 8086:24c5 
  class-ID: 0401 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Dell Latitude D400 driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: c000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  chip-ID: 14e4:165d class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN 
  vendor: AMBIT Microsystem driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: c000 
  bus-ID: 02:03.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4318 class-ID: 0280 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr 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: 74.53 GiB used: 3.91 GiB (5.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS541680J9AT00 size: 74.53 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: A70H scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD-ROM GDR8082N rev: 0106 
  dev-links: cdrom,dvd 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none 
  state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 69.85 GiB used: 3.91 GiB (5.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  label: rootantiX21 uuid: 57b2a62f-6b48-4fca-80d9-7cf563e45470 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 
  dev: /dev/sda2 label: swapantiX uuid: eb6349d8-1f9b-420d-a1e4-de8b46a0b947 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
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: 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 
  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:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2980 
Info:
  Processes: 131 Uptime: 9h 54m wakeups: 5 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 
  runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1332 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06 

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.4 Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D600 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0T9369 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A15 
  date: 01/26/2005 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.0 Wh (99.3%) condition: 44.3/57.7 Wh (76.7%) 
  volts: 12.5 min: 11.1 model: Samsung SDI DELL MT2648 status: Charging 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan 
  rev: 6 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: sse sse2 bogomips: 3197 
  Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 600/1600 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RV250/M9 GL [Mobility FireGL 9000/Radeon 9000] vendor: Dell 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI R200 (RV250 4C66) x86/MMX/SSE2 DRI2 
  v: 1.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.5 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Dell Latitude D400 driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: c000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN 
  vendor: AMBIT Microsystem driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: c000 
  bus-ID: 02:03.0 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 3.91 GiB (5.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS541680J9AT00 size: 74.53 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 69.85 GiB used: 3.91 GiB (5.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2927 
Info:
  Processes: 131 Uptime: 9h 54m Memory: 1.97 GiB used: 426.9 MiB (21.2%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1332 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

$ inxi -r
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/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.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.de.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 

$ ping -c 5 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.178.54 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.178.54 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.178.54 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.178.54 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.178.54 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4112ms
pipe 4

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by mkrueger.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by mkrueger.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by mkrueger.

[Member ModdIt]

Strange things reported, I am booting from
sda1 dev/sda1 ext4 /boot boot 639 MiB
root is dev/sda2 ext4 / rootantiX21 24,90 GiB
home dev/sda3 ext4 /home homeantiX 61.06 GiB

Swap on extended /dev/sda5 linux swap swapantix 1017 MiB which is ridiculous but also have main swap on rotating disk.
Ans swappiness set to a minimum for SSD.

sdb has a fat32 187 Mib Partition marked boot and esp

grub is installed to sda MBR option so the efi part is likely unused. It is from an older installation of antix 19.

See what Mint does, hopefully the MMC is not dead, replacing is a job for a good shop unless you have a closely temperature controlled
hot air oven and experience. Shop repair is risky and overly expensive too with board replacement being main option offered.

[Member roland]

Yes I did go right through to the end filling in passwords and auto-login switch, but really when it fails formatting /root it does so very soon, usually before I have got my fingers to the next button. When it hangs I have also gone to the last screen but it is still hanging with everything filled in. In any case it still has the /home partition to deal with after it finishes with /root, before (I guess ?) it begins to copy system files across.

I do appreciate your point and this afternoon will run through an install once again to check out what I have just said. Honestly I must have tried different approaches about 50 times but the result is always one of two, fails formatting /root, or hangs.

I am almost certainly mistaken but feel that formatting /root when it is unnecessary is not required, and the installer could have an option to Preserve /root besides any others.

Just as an aside I have a Toshiba laptop with a 3-core AMD, quite modern, and installed 17.4 on it in a trouble-free process about 2 years ago. Sadly I am not in UK at the present so cannot look at the partitions I created but they are likely to be just Swap Root and Home. I knew nothing about EFI bck then (and still don’t!).

[Member roland]

After learning a little about the UEFI system browsing the www, I find that most laptops made during the past 10 years expect UEFI system to be catered for in their booting arrangements. It does not seem to have made much inroad into the PC market yet.

UEFI seems to be the product of a latter day ‘Gang of Nine’ attempt to regulate boot management when multiple operating systems are present, one wonders if the Windows fraternity or related manufacturers are behind it, as it seems to do nothing that Grub does not do. I am not sure if UEFI excludes Grub or if Grub can function within the UEFI envelope, as the antiX installer offers either MBR or EFI as Grub install locations. It looks as if Grub code is embedded in UEFI files at some point during install.

A partition table conforming to either MS-Dos or GTP standards is suggested but GTP is recommended because of the greater number of partitions available. MS-Dos is limited to 4 (I always thought it was 3, maybe the the EFI partition is not counted ?). The EFI partition used as /boot will need to store about 30mb of code for each installed system. The recommended total size varies from 200mb to 500mb however (seems a lot of excess ?). It must be formatted Fat32 with EFI and Boot flags set. I created one of 256mb which has to be adequate (?).

I have created the partitions I thought appropriate for an install on this laptop including an EFI partition as above. The install fails formatting /root. I also tried leaving the installer to create partitions to chosen % for /root and /home, fails with an endless hang, I gave it 10 minutes or more. Htop showed little or no cpu activity throughout. The log shows no new activity after the necessary cleanup, so it’s doing nothing it seems?

Therefore I have to conclude that either I have missed something fundamental (most likely) or the installer does not handle partition preparation adequately, or maybe something is missing.

I think (my opinion only) that the installer should not attempt formatting any partition marked Retain, and this marker should be available for all classes of partition including /root, giving the user more flexibility and getting the installer straight into copying the new system across.

How can I run a bad block HD check independently of a partition format, when there is no system installed?

The attached screenshots show a bespoke install using partition table gtp, Efi partition 256mb with boot + EFI flags, Swap, /root ext4 and /home ext4, which fails formatting /root.
Also a default install with 12% /root and the rest /home, which hangs endlessly with no apparent activity.

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harry@shop:~
$ inxi -zv7
System:    Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.4 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
           Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 6075BHU v: ThinkCentre M57 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: LENOVO serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 2RKT41AUS date: 03/20/2008 
Battery:   Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:    RAM: total: 3.58 GiB used: 1.04 GiB (29.0%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium Dual E2160 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom rev: D cache: L2: 1024 KiB 
           bogomips: 7181 
           Speed: 1449 MHz min/max: 1200/1800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1449 2: 1742 
           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 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:29b2 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Q35 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e 
           class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 1820 bus-ID: 00:19.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:10bd class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter type: USB driver: r8712u bus-ID: 2-6.4:5 chip-ID: 0bda:8172 
           class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
           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: 298.09 GiB used: 15 GiB (5.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 size: 298.09 GiB speed: <unknown> type: N/A 
           serial: <filter> rev: 3A01 scheme: MBR 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: RW/DVD GCC-H30N rev: 1.02 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd 
           Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw state: running 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 252.52 GiB used: 15 GiB (5.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 label: rootantiX21 
           uuid: f1b7ea1f-dd9f-479b-8bf1-56d1ac2e1a8b 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A 
           uuid: 83f3c3a7-56c1-4666-b6ba-87069c6ee9cf 
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 36.56 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: 5091df41-e1b4-4c73-a7bf-a05357b81d9a 
           ID-2: /dev/sda3 size: 1024 KiB fs: ext4 label: /data uuid: cfc7c48a-7166-4682-bb9a-8da7af996851 
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: 1-2:2 info: Super Top USB Mass Storage Device type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 
           rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 400mA chip-ID: 14cd:8168 class-ID: 0806 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: 2-6:4 info: Super Top 4-Port hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 14cd:8601 
           class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 2-6.4:5 info: Realtek RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter type: Network driver: r8712u interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
           speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:8172 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
           Hub-4: 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-5: 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 
           Hub-6: 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-7: 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 
           Hub-8: 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 
           Device-1: 7-1:2 info: Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 
           speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 045e:0040 class-ID: 0301 
           Hub-9: 8-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 8-1:2 info: IBM NetVista Full Width Keyboard type: Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 
           rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 04b3:3025 class-ID: 0301 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 140 Uptime: 4h 20m wakeups: 1 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1605 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06 
harry@shop:~
$ inxi -r
Repos:     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 
harry@shop:~
$ sudo apt -f install
[sudo] password for harry: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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