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Is there an antiX version that will run on an older IBM Thinkpad R40e currently running win XP?
Intel® Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor-M 1.8Ghz, Type 2684CVG motherboard, RAM 1GB, HDD 16GB 7GB Free.

I succesfully tested antiX 19.3 Base running from a DVD on a Dell OptiPlex GX270 desktop, Pentium® 4 2.4Ghz, RAM 2GB.

When I tried antiX 19.3 Base with the R40e latop. It tried to start but stopped at a blank screen. Did not get to the stage of offering me options.

Is the Thinkpad too old or are there any things I might have failed to do?
I was hopeful as antiX FAQ says “should run on most computers, ranging from 192MB old PII systems with pre-configured 128MB swap to the latest powerful boxes”.

I have almost no experience with Linux. The Thinkpad was tried with Linux Puppy 5.7.1 and 6.0.51 both ran succesfully but the included web browsers were not suited to current web sites.

Thanks in anticipation 🙂

[Member scruffyeagle]

I used the boot repair utility, and it seemed to work okay. But, rebooting to test it, I discovered a glitch. My 3 partitions are currently used as:
#1: Swap,
#2: Antix v19.3 (upgraded), and
#3: Linux Mint v20.2.

The glitch, is that the boot repair didn’t find Mint. Instead, it found Debian v11.1, which I’d had previously installed in p#3, but over-written with Mint. I tested to see if it could boot Mint from the line specifying Debian, and the answer was no. It returned to the GRUB boot selection screen.

My solution was to go back into Antix, and enter sudo update-grub in a terminal.

That worked okay, but it had an odd side effect when I tested for booting Mint. Previously, Mint would go fairly quickly to the login screen. However, this time, it:
1) Gave me a blank screen with “LINUX MINT” top center, and 4 or 5 dots below it, similar to the Antix Live display.
2) It did a slow march across the dots, changing their color to display progress, similar to what Antix does.
3) It showed a terminal login, in large amber lettering on a black background. (I think it was tty1.) I decided to just wait, and see what it would do.
4) It displayed the normal LM login screen & routine.

Another oddity, is that the LM copy of Firefox has suddenly started working again. (It’s had an odd inability to connect with servers, and I’ve been trying to resolve that problem via the Linux Mint forums.) I don’t know if it will continue to work, but it’s working now! (Curiouser and curiouser…)

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

inxi -Fxz
System: Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0
Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-base Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 3249CTO v: ThinkPad X201 serial:
Mobo: LENOVO model: 3249CTO serial: BIOS: LENOVO v: 6QET66WW (1.36 ) date: 05/31/2011
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 79.4/84.2 Wh (94.3%) volts: 12.3 min: 10.8 model: Panasonic 42T4696
status: Unknown
CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7 M 620 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 cache: L2: 4 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21280
Speed: 1999 MHz min/max: 1199/2667 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1999 2: 1333 3: 1199 4: 1199
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: Lenovo Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:6
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel resolution: 1280×800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 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: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 1820 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1880 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 4.43 GiB (3.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: THNS128GG4BAAA-NonFDE size: 119.24 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 110.9 GiB used: 4.43 GiB (4.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: 0.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1965
Info: Processes: 189 Uptime: 2h 17m Memory: 7.6 GiB used: 1.33 GiB (17.6%) Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1
Packages: 1218 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

--
Brian Masinick

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

Some small problems I encountered:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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My hardware:

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

My .conkyrc-file (with some comments removed):

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

short_units yes

cpu_avg_samples 1
net_avg_samples 1

out_to_console no

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

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

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

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

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1.0

#on_bottom no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 5 5
maximum_width 180

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 10

# border width
border_width 2

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

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

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

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

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

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# if_up_strictness link: up | link | address
if_up_strictness address

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

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

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

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

# stuff after ‘TEXT’ will be formatted on screen

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

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

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

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My fluxbox ‘startup’ file:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=========================================================================

[Member namida12]

$ inxi -Fxyz
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 
  Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450M Pro4 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: P3.50 date: 07/18/2019 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 28744 
  Speed: 2184 MHz min/max: 1400/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2184 2: 2924 3: 2932 4: 2886 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.0 
  Device-2: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-10:4 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.40.0 
  5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.1 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.6 
  Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-10:4 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 171.46 GiB (36.8%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G3XHC-00SJG0 
  size: 465.76 GiB temp: 31.9 C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 14.66 GiB used: 5.34 GiB (36.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  ID-2: /home size: 434.06 GiB used: 166.12 GiB (38.3%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 30.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 217 Uptime: 1d 13h 59m Memory: 5.73 GiB used: 996.2 MiB (17.0%) 
  Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1696 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 
green621@antix621:~

[Member namida12]

Live Media – Trying to install again…

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 
           Distro: antiX-21-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 30 October 2021 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450M Pro4 serial: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends 
           v: P3.50 date: 07/18/2019 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           Speed: 2534 MHz min/max: 1400/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2534 2: 2940 3: 2952 4: 2940 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           Device-2: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.40.0 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 70:85:c2:a3:6e:27 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 480.22 GiB used: 1.4 GiB (0.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G3XHC-00SJG0 size: 465.76 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: PNY model: USB 2.0 FD size: 14.46 GiB 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 182 Uptime: 1m Memory: 5.73 GiB used: 490.5 MiB (8.4%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06 
demo@antix1:~

[Member ModdIt]

Solution 1,
Sould be to reinstall from the backup ISO you created before making repo change to testing. :-).

PLEASE, all users before changing repos from Stable to Testing or Unstable make a Backup, put it
on a stick, boot and confirm it works as expected. It is so easy using antiX tools and can save
you a lot of headeache.

You can reinstall and be back at work in a very short time that way.

Present situation now.
If you do not have a backup of home make one, using a live stick copy your data and .files
for your preferred WM to LiveUSB Storage or a second device. Cou can usually also carry over
claws hidden folders, may not work if claws version changed. You can if you wish copy
all contents of home folder, if username stays same it will probably be ok.

You can reinstall keeping home if it is on a separate partition.

Reinstall your antiX version, copy in your saved files from home.
Reinstall your manually installed options with Packet installer Synaptic console according to
your preference.

When you are finished MAKE A SNAPSHOT ISO, put it on a stick confirm it is ok.
Make a backup of that ISO and put it in a safe place.

I always recommend keeping home separate, if you do a semi automated install the installer has a
lider for allocating space to separate home. I have a huge root, about 24GB rest swap and then home on an ssd.
Very easy install.
More complicated with multiple partitions and/or dual boot, use Gparted then the installer seems easiest.

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

[Moderator BobC]

I loaded a machine for a friend this weekend, and set it up with root, swap, and extended partition /home leaving space for a second distro. It was an older Core 2 laptop. It went fine. I used gparted to setup the partitions, then did the install and selected each.

I’ve tried and failed with many “automatic” installs because I have a lot of drives, volumes and distros on many of my machines. Some have MS Windows (98, XP, Vista, 7, and 10), some are Linux only. Some are UEFI, some are setup for MBR. Many have Data volumes with NTFS or EXFMT partitions which are shared between Windows and Linux distros. Each makes sense for what is loaded on that machine, but many are tight on space, or at system limits of volumes, drives, etc., and might not have the free space contiguous or enough to make many distros happy when installing.

Each piece of each turns into another permutation that your automatic partitioner needs to handle, keeping all the distros on that machine happy.

Hibernation and Hybrid suspend/hibernation is an almost total Linux failure. Suspend usually works, but some machines are trouble it seems, anf its easy to spend a lot of hours just trying to get one working reliably.

Swap is a mess in my environment. Each distro thinks it owns the swap, but in reality it should be that each distro should own the swap while it is active, or suspended, or hibernating, and then the swap partition should be available for the next distro booted. Because of that I really should be using swap files, but that is so hard to get to work. Many times I don’t use any swap at all because it creates more problems than it solves.

So, you say LM is the best? Its been a couple years since I tried it.

[Member blackwood]

i installed the driver from the nvidia driver installer on the control center

$ inxi -zv7
System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 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: Apple product: MacBook7,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Mac-F22C89C8 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F22C89C8 serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple v: MB71.88Z.003F.B00.1802022149 date: 02/02/18 
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.7 GiB used: 312.4 MiB (17.9%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 9556 
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 798/2394 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est 
           flexpriority fpu fxsr ht kaiser lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nopl nx pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni pse 
           pse36 rep_good sep smx ss sse sse2 sse4_1 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx vnmi xsave xtpr 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 [GeForce 320M] vendor: Apple driver: nvidia v: 340.108 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:08a0 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Apple Built-in iSight type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:2 chip-ID: 05ac:8507 class-ID: 0e02 
           serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nvidia note: n/a (using device driver) unloaded: fbdev 
           resolution: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: N/A v: N/A direct render: N/A 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:08.0 chip-ID: 10de:0d94 
           class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
Network:   Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 Ethernet vendor: Apple driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: 22a0 bus-ID: 00:09.0 
           chip-ID: 10de:0d7d class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           Device-2: Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl v: kernel port: 2280 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4353 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 4-6.3:7 chip-ID: 05ac:8218 
           class-ID: fe01 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: stopped rfk-block: hardware: no software: no 
           address: <filter> 
Logical:   Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 4.73 GiB (4.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SD7SB3Q-128G-1006 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0006 scheme: GPT 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: MATSHITA model: DVD-R UJ-898 rev: HD10 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: / size: 113.97 GiB used: 4.73 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 label: rootantiX21 
           uuid: 50067456-88ae-4780-8893-2cd862df86ff 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 label: EFI System uuid: B94E-C341 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 dev: /dev/sda3 label: swapantiX 
           uuid: 3dfdb17d-7948-481a-95d4-98d982d937da 
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 
           Device-1: 1-6:2 info: Apple Built-in iSight type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           power: 500mA chip-ID: 05ac:8507 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 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: 6 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 4-3:2 info: Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad (ISO) type: Keyboard,HID,Mouse driver: apple,bcm5974,usbhid 
           interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 40mA chip-ID: 05ac:0237 class-ID: 0301 
           Device-2: 4-4:3 info: Pixart Imaging Optical Mouse type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 
           speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 093a:2510 class-ID: 0301 
           Hub-5: 4-6:4 info: Broadcom BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           power: 94mA chip-ID: 0a5c:4500 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 4-6.3:7 info: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 
           speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 05ac:8218 class-ID: fe01 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 131 Uptime: 23m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 
           Packages: apt: 1652 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06

hi, I installed antix 32 bit version a year and a half ago. It works very well. At that time I thought my processor was a 32 bit because I had the 32 bit windows vista preinstalled on it. I wasn’t sure the year of release but thought it was around 2009. Checking some commands, I’m very confused.

lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
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: 23
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz
Stepping: 10
CPU MHz: 1600.000
CPU max MHz: 2100,0000
CPU min MHz: 1200,0000
BogoMIPS: 4189.48
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 est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm dtherm

and

inxi -Fxz
System: Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: bspwm 0.9.9
Distro: antiX-19.2.1_386-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC v: Rev 1 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3628 v: 18.50 serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.42 date: 03/23/2010
CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T6500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 bogomips: 8378
Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1200
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
Device-2: Quanta type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-4:2
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV710 (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp LLVM 7.0.1) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard dv6-1190en driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard dv6-1190en driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp running: yes
Network: Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl v: kernel port: 7000
bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169
v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 5000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 6.22 GiB (2.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9320325AS size: 298.09 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 29.47 GiB used: 6.22 GiB (21.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 1024 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 156 Uptime: 59m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (40.7%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0
Packages: 1253 Shell: Zsh v: 5.7.1 inxi: 3.3.06

It seems to me the system supports 64 bits. Can I run the 64 bit antix OS?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by newuser.

[Member roland]

I recently installed Grup Yorum 21 on a PC that already had Grup Yorum 19.3 installed tidied up and running well. I installed an SSD to receive 21, but intended to retain 19.3 at least for the time being. I had to fit a SATA expansion card and rearrange a couple of SATA cables to accommodate things. I also had the 19.3 $home on a separate partition on yet another drive, and intended that this $home would be shared between the two installs. I was unsure what to do about the swap partition, so created a new one on the SSD. 19.3 can use this I suppose, allowing the other one to be released.

I found the new installer crystal clear and straightforward to use, although I took the precaution of creating and formatting the required new partitions in advance, invoking Gparted before I ran the installer.

I did run into problems with a slow messy boot process, but these I am certain are related to the SATA expansion card, and in no way resultant from the install. I regard 21 as a good step forward despite it being very similar in most respects to 19.4. Connman works straight out of the box, that’s major step in itself.

[Member raakken]

Sorry, been away on job…
I will try to search some more, though i didn’t find anything before i posted.
inxi -Fxz gives:

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: SAPPHIRE model: IPC-350DM1W v: 1AOVQ055 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4.6.4 date: 10/30/2012 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 
  model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus charge: Full 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: AMD E-350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bobcat rev: 0 
  cache: L2: 512 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 6385 
  Speed: 1550 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1550 2: 1588 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] vendor: PC Partner Limited 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
  OpenGL: 
  renderer: AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Wrestler HDMI Audio vendor: PC Partner Limited 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: e000 
  bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: ZyDAS ZD1211B 802.11g type: USB driver: zd1211rw bus-ID: 1-5:2 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 4.84 GiB (1.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3320820AS size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 286.93 GiB used: 4.84 GiB (1.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.25 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 49.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 140 Uptime: 5m Memory: 3.45 GiB used: 730.4 MiB (20.7%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1575 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

No sound from any application, neither from speakers(active) or headphones. Speakers tested with chromebook with gallium os, and works fine
thanks

[Member ModdIt]

Figuring some way to make this easier to understand has to be shared first place on my todo list.

I want to win new users not frighten them,
wherever possible get them on the road to telling others, hey my computer was crap, now it
runs great, with Linux.

BobC: I’ve never done a separate /home setup,
Sounds like you would be a great guinea pig/tester :-).

We know you are an experienced linuxer, have very good problem ananlysis capability as well as an
excellent solution finder. Maybe if we all put our heads together we can find an easy way to get
confusion out of the equasion.

I am thinking install templates as a good way to go. Standard with separate home as example X GB
minimum for root, Swap chose between 5ooMB and 8 GB as more than enough for modern machine.
Rest for home. Alternative template with an area as archive.

That could be very nearly as easy as a standard take whole disk no home install.

I need to get on top of UEFI Legacy install, autodetect and setup on the actual machine would be the
perfect option from user point of view.

I have more than once gone around that with an autoinstall to get a boot then reinstalled adding custom
partitions but keeping the 300 MB or so EFI ESP or boot partition intact. before I installed Arch I used
Manjaro to get a setup in my head. In the end I gave up on both, too many update issues at times.
Archers say too stupid to read the docs. they are right, I am an experimenter. Kept one solid system and
played with others. Right now, solid is 19.4 and still learning about 21 with runit. Moving soon I think.

[Member tupp]

Thanks everyone for the prompt replies!

BobC wrote:

What kind of machine is it and which kernel did you boot with?

I tired both kernels and neither allowed poweroff.

Here is the result of inxi -Fxz:

System:    Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 
           Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 9010 v: 01 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0M9KCM v: A01 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A30 date: 06/28/2018 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-3770 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 cache: L2: 8 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 54271 
           Speed: 3850 MHz min/max: 1600/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3850 2: 3032 3: 3844 4: 3757 5: 2297 6: 3553 7: 3833 
           8: 2293 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Caicos XT [Radeon HD 7470/8470 / R5 235/310 OEM] 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: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 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 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.57 TiB used: 66.26 GiB (2.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Maxtor model: STM3320620AS size: 298.09 GiB 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 size: 1.82 TiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 57.37 GiB used: 4.57 GiB (8.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /home size: 389.93 GiB used: 61.69 GiB (15.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Swap:      Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 46.5 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 191 Uptime: 5m Memory: 15.59 GiB used: 631.1 MiB (4.0%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1645 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

BobC wrote:

Did you look for errors with dmesg?

I found this:

[    2.513780] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000400-0x000000000000047F (\PMIO) (20160831/utaddress-238)
[    2.513787] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.513790] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000540-0x000000000000054F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-238)
[    2.513794] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.513795] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-238)
[    2.513799] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.513800] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-238)
[    2.513803] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.513804] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich

BobC wrote:

Its not clear whether the problem is with the kernel/boot parms, what was in the /home directory, or something else. If you have space on the drive, do a normal antiX install to that partition, boot to it, and see if it functions normally or not.

I might just try a complete reinstall and completely clean out the /home directory.

christophe wrote:

I read this as your “custom” antiX is using your old Devuan home partition. Am I wrong?

You are correct. I cleaned out a lot of cruft, but there are certain config files which I would like to keep in /home.

Dave wrote:

@ christophe: That is how I read it as well.
My quick suggestion to try would be to make a new user account and see if the same problems exist. However given the following line there is a different underlying problem.

Thanks. It might be better to just move everything in /home to another partition and do a clean reinstall, and then carefully copy everything back.

Dave wrote:

For example the system could be having troubles using the acpi commands correctly to actually power off the machine.

Indeed. There were some acpi errors in dmesg (see above).

Dave wrote:

The other issues with the incorrect path being set as well as issues with the runlevel configuration seems to suggest some level of corruption on the install. (Assuming the installation media / ISO has been verified ok via checksum)

Yes. That is why I am thinking of a reinstall. The checksum matched the iso.

By the way, the last time it got stuck in the console without powering down, for kicks I pressed “ctrl-alt-bkspace” and the messages in the attached photo appeared. It can’t seem to make it to the halt command.

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Apologies for not including more information, I really should have done that!

I will try the instructions you linked to for qt5ct.
EDIT: I tried those instructions but that only allows me to set the QT theme. I want the QT theme to look the same as the GTK2 theme, so I don’t think that’s the way to do it?

I’m running 32 bit antiX base installed to an SSD. Here is the output of inxi

System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D830 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0HN341 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A11 
  date: 04/03/2008 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 83.3 Wh (99.5%) condition: 83.7/86.6 Wh (96.7%) 
  volts: 12.4 min: 11.1 model: SMP DELL YD6238 status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T9300 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Penryn rev: 6 cache: L2: 6 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 9972 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/2501 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 800 2: 2000 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM (CL) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  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: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express 
  vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: 10c0 bus-ID: 09:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network 
  driver: iwl4965 v: in-tree: port: 10c0 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 3.57 GiB (3.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: RBU-SNS8350DES3128GP 
  size: 119.24 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 116.68 GiB used: 3.57 GiB (3.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 128 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 22.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 145 Uptime: 1m Memory: 3.44 GiB used: 342.7 MiB (9.7%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1304 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06 

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