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[Member rallan]

I have put my Quick Info output at the end of this post.

Executive Summary: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X bits: 64 type, with a NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] card, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD for the main drive. It’s a desktop. MXLinux19.4-AHS-5.10.0 is my OS. ext4 is my file system.

I have a second spare HDD sitting idle in its own bay, I am thinking of installing antiX on it.

Up until now I have only used antiX as a liveUSB. I started out with FAT32 then switched to ext4. I re-installed antiX with MX Live USB Maker, which as you know is tailored for antiX and MXLinux installations.

Since the switch three apps that I installed – and were working for a while – stopped working. The apps that came bundled with the installation all seem fine.

Is there a cardinal rule that a liveUSB – regardless of the OS – must run on FAT32, and not on any other type of file system?

I dislike FAT32 because it lacks journaling.

System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-4mx-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-4mx-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19.4_x64 patito feo November 11 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME A320M-K v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5603 date: 10/14/2020
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
family: 17 (23) model-id: 1 stepping: 1 microcode: 8001138 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 55894
Speed: 3422 MHz min/max: 1550/3500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1547
2: 1547 3: 1496 4: 2992 5: 1544 6: 1542 7: 1497 8: 2988
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau v: kernel
bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0a65
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0be3
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 09:00.3 chip ID: 1022:1457
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-4mx-amd64
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 05:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.74 TiB used: 176.43 GiB (6.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0A size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 90WD
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm
serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Lexar model: USB Flash Drive size: 14.62 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 929.23 GiB size: 913.65 GiB (98.32%) used: 175.96 GiB (19.3%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 486.0 MiB (23.7%) fs: swap
swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 35.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 55 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list
1: deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/debian buster main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/geogebra.list
1: deb http://www.geogebra.net/linux/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb https://muug.ca/mirror/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
2: deb https://muug.ca/mirror/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list
1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com//deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/slack.list
1: deb https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian/ jessie main
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yandex-disk.list
1: deb http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/deb/ stable main
Info: Processes: 280 Uptime: 1d 1h 44m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 3.87 GiB (49.8%)
Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8
Shell: quick-system-in running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Howdy back, atcha.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/gaming-laptops/g5-15-se-gaming-laptop/spd/g-series-15-5505-laptop/gn5505dyiqs

My uneducated guess. You need a newer kernel for newer gear to get video. Maybe the vesa or fb driver may get you by.
I can’t say. Your Ubuntu reference makes me think this.

I’d ask for live boot and see if you get a screen.
If that works.
Post the output of

inxi -Fx -r

Here is mine as a example

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -Fx -r
System:
  Host: biker Kernel: 4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 2.3.4 
  Distro: antiX-19_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2347DS2 v: ThinkPad T430 
  serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 2347DS2 serial: <root required> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO 
  v: G1ET41WW (1.16 ) date: 05/25/2012 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 12.3 Wh condition: 12.3/56.2 Wh (22%) 
  model: SANYO 45N1001 status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20751 
  Speed: 2609 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2609 2: 2885 
  3: 2980 4: 1712 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e 
  v: 3.2.6-k port: 5080 bus ID: 00:19.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:21:cc:d0:5f:88 
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 60:67:20:95:09:dc 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 52.71 GiB (11.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LT012-1DG142 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.10 GiB used: 5.35 GiB (28.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: /home size: 433.48 GiB used: 47.36 GiB (10.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.82 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3631 
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.us.oneandone.net/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.us.oneandone.net/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insync.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 173 Uptime: 4h 19m Memory: 15.47 GiB used: 796.8 MiB (5.0%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 
harry@biker:~

I run Micro Soft Teams on here because of my wife and her default job stuff.
Maybe this page will help to get you to a running live desktop session.

https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Boot_Parameters

https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

Good luck.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by rokytnji.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Member banned]

Well, as all of you can see, the answeres from the 2 people where just not helpfull. And this is not the frist time! I am very good in testing…linux, browsers, swap methods…and also people.

If people are not well educated or not well in social skills, then this is not my fault. And I am also not willing to fix this problems.

For antiX it is very bad, if such people are giving answeres in the forum, that are missleading the users. But I think, that @anticapitalista knows the problem. antiX is for free, of course. But if you would have to sell it, then you would look for better supporters and you would make a better wiki, isn’t it? Well, sometimes also capitalism has good points 🙂

It is very strange, that 2 people are not even able to give answers to a simple zram script, that everyone can understand, that has just basic skills. But as I told you, I am very good in testing, also people.

By the way, if you look for better performance, the best way is, to use just a swapfile, but with the right settings. zram and zswap are ok, if your ram is not to small and if your cpu is not to slow. Because the 2 methodes need also ram and needs also cpu power, compressing data is not a simple thing.

Some helpfull links here and please take a look to your /etc/sysctl.conf. Swappiness default is 60 for servers, for clients can be lower. But 10 is very low! And take care with the other settings, as memory management is not so simple!

Very good and helpfull article:

https://www.howtogeek.com/449691/what-is-swapiness-on-linux-and-how-to-change-it/

some more with some helpfull information:

https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator-Guide/Linux-Kernel-Tuning/
https://lwn.net/Articles/100978/

And please stop giving users missleading answers! With this you are waisting the time of the useres and also harm the antiX project! And yes, I am a ingeneer for informatic (not computer since), I am near 53 years old and I am not a stupid, anyway I can ask like a stupid in order to show up the people, that like to play around with stupid. Do you got the point? I hope so.

If you like to read my post about jOS, you can find it also in the devuan forum with some interessting answers:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4340

have a nice day 🙂

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by banned.

[Member IsaacM]

I have tried several times with several devices. There is nothing wrong with this USB stick. This one has a larger capacity and is 119GB neither it nor any of the other ones would work. I think there is a limitation of some kind in the way that it is mounted or the way the iso is formatted. It is designed to search for an internal drive and probably looks at the location as one that it cannot use so it doesn’t(just conjecture on my part). As far as I can tell all installers for any distro are limited in the same way. It may have something to do with the Kernel perhaps? I was hopeful that AntiX would be different because it is not so light that it’s useless nor, so heavy that it would slow down response time. Nevertheless I would be nice to have a distro that would just install.

I think the way I am going to overcome this is to partition my physical hdd and add AntiX then CP /dev/sdaX /dev/sdb. Then I will partition /sdb to add a swap to speed the USB response time.

[Member bedna]

inxi -Fxzr
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 2.3.4 
           Distro: antiX-19.4_x64-full Grup Yorum 20 May 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Virtualbox System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <filter> BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 48.5 Wh condition: 50.0/50.0 Wh (100%) model: innotek 1 status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Core i7-6500U bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake rev: 3 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 5183 
           Speed: 2592 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2592 
Graphics:  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.12.0.0 bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: vmware unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x989~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:05.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: d020 bus ID: 00:03.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge driver: piix4_smbus v: N/A port: d200 bus ID: 00:07.0 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 8.00 GiB used: 4.61 GiB (57.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK size: 8.00 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.29 GiB used: 4.25 GiB (58.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 512.0 MiB used: 362.2 MiB (70.7%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://tux.rainside.sk/mxlinux/antix/buster buster main nonfree nosystemd
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 151 Uptime: 21h 32m Memory: 995.3 MiB used: 730.4 MiB (73.4%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36

[Member Xecure]

banned wrote:

@Xecure

And you should learn to repect people that are learning! It is not the first time, that I get or found answers from you, that wehre not repectfull or missleading.

You are right. Completely unreliable. The process I follow as a non-expert is:
1. I see a question and I don’t know the answer to.
2. I waste my time researching a possible answer.
3. I try to give the best answer I find after researching.

I start not knowing the answer, as the OP, and end up finding something that resembles an answer and posting it. Can it be wrong? Yes. Can it be right? Sometimes. In those rare cases where the solution is found, the person asking could have arrived at the same answer if they spent the same time searching for the answer as I did.

I never used zram and just know it is used for better RAM use. I researched the same things you asked and brought the best answer I could find.

I am sorry for wasting my time researching and answering questions I originally didn’t have the answer to. I will leave all my volunteering work to you, and just spend some needed time away from the computer. Good luck with giving back and expanding your knowledge.

Note: The zram script in antiX can be read here: /usr/local/bin/zram
Note 2: You could also use zswap for more options. I just spent a few seconds searching and found this (another unreliable answer): https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/using-zswap-instead-of-zram/

PS: It seems you didn’t get the MAN joke.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member AA BB]

All our MSWindows OS’s systems were removed in late 2019 and all our current x86 boxes are MBR based, no UEFIs …GParted indicates the dual boot systems have separate AntiX 19.4 and MX-19 dedicated partitions We repeatedly tried MBR boot repair using the boot repair tools available on Live USBs containing MX19 and AntiX 19.4 (May 2021 version). The only thing we end up with is a boot menu that boots either AntiX or MX but never dual MX/Antix. All the boot repairs specify MBR.

All our MX and Antix dual installs are encrypted installs, and each has its own swap and root partition but both share the same boot partition, and obviously both share the MBR. Our last attempt gave MX and Antix their own separate boot partitions, but we still got only a single boot.

The bottom line issue we face is getting grub and/or boot repair to dual boot two completely separate encrypted installs on an MBR system.

In order to dual boot for both installs, the boot repair tools must some how figure out the correct boot partitions of both installs.
If MX is currently controlling the MBR, it seems to me the only possible way to create a dual boot is to run the AntiX boot repair tool, and hope it “add” the Antix boot partition to the current MBR. Instead, it appears the AntiX boot repair tool is overwriting the MBR controlled by MX, with a new one controlled by AntiX

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by AA BB.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by AA BB.

[Member banned]

@skidoo and @Xecure

Thank you! After boot I have this:

antix@antix1:~
$ free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         949608      179776      361304       22852      408528      612876
Swap:       2299308           0     2299308
antix@antix1:~
$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/swapfile                               file		2097148	0	-1
/dev/zram0                              partition	202160	0	100
antix@antix1:~
$ zramctl
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo         197.4M   4K   87B   12K       1 [SWAP]
antix@antix1:~
$ 

That looks good 🙂 So zram is ok and working. But it has anyway a – 🙁

antix@antix1:~
$ service --status-all
 [ - ]  acpi-support
 [ + ]  acpid
 [ ? ]  alsa-utils
 [ - ]  anacron
 [ + ]  avahi-daemon
 [ + ]  bluetooth
 [ ? ]  bootchart-done
 [ - ]  bootlogs
 [ - ]  bootmisc.sh
 [ + ]  brightness
 [ - ]  checkfs.sh
 [ - ]  checkroot-bootclean.sh
 [ - ]  checkroot.sh
 [ + ]  connman
 [ - ]  console-setup.sh
 [ ? ]  cpufrequtils
 [ + ]  cron
 [ ? ]  cryptdisks
 [ ? ]  cryptdisks-early
 [ + ]  cups
 [ + ]  dbus
 [ ? ]  dundee
 [ + ]  elogind
 [ + ]  gpm
 [ + ]  haveged
 [ - ]  hostname.sh
 [ ? ]  hwclock.sh
 [ + ]  irqbalance
 [ - ]  keyboard-setup.sh
 [ - ]  killprocs
 [ ? ]  kmod
 [ - ]  lm-sensors
 [ ? ]  loadcpufreq
 [ - ]  mountall-bootclean.sh
 [ - ]  mountall.sh
 [ - ]  mountdevsubfs.sh
 [ - ]  mountkernfs.sh
 [ - ]  mountnfs-bootclean.sh
 [ - ]  mountnfs.sh
 [ ? ]  networking
 [ + ]  nfs-common
 [ + ]  ntp
 [ ? ]  ofono
 [ - ]  oobe
 [ ? ]  pppd-dns
 [ - ]  procps
 [ - ]  rc.local
 [ + ]  resolvconf
 [ - ]  rmnologin
 [ + ]  rpcbind
 [ - ]  rsync
 [ + ]  rsyslog
        
 [ - ]  saned
 [ - ]  sendsigs
 [ + ]  slim
 [ - ]  smartmontools
 [ + ]  ssh
 [ - ]  sudo
 [ + ]  tlp
 [ + ]  tor
 [ + ]  udev
 [ - ]  ufw
 [ - ]  umountfs
 [ ? ]  umountnfs-alternative.sh
 [ - ]  umountnfs.sh
 [ - ]  umountroot
 [ - ]  unattended-upgrades
 [ - ]  urandom
 [ - ]  virtualbox-guest-utils
 [ - ]  x11-common
 [ - ]  zram
antix@antix1:~
$

Also the firewall has a -. I was taking then a look to Control Center / System / Choose Startup Services:

zram has a x in runlevel 2,3,4,5 (not S). The firewall (ufw) has x in runlevel S (no other). udev also has a x in runlevel S. So why ufw is – and udev i + on the above list? And why zram is – and anyway working?

Last questions: Is algorithm lzo ok for zram? In zswap they say, that lz4 and lz4ho are better. But how I would change this? In the zram script it is not set…so default lzo. And also zram script is using another methode to create the zram? No zramctl to see there. Or can I use zramctl on a existing zram, without to change the size or to create it new?

@Xecure

And you should learn to repect people that are learning! It is not the first time, that I get or found answers from you, that wehre not repectfull or missleading.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by banned.

Ok, I was using the zram skript as it says in the file itself. Works basicly. I have not done nothing with /etc/rc.local, there is just exit 0. See this post:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/getting-the-zram-script-to-work-solved/

The script is making a zram in % of the free ram. So of course it depends, what other appilcation you are running in the moment you start it. After reboot I got this:

$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/swapfile                               file		2097148	0	-1
/dev/zram0                              partition	199496	544	100

But with the command given in the zram script I got this:

$ lsmod | grep zram
zram                   18355  1

So what means 18255? Not the size? It comes from /sys/module/zram/coresize

Then I tried to change the default like it says in the zram script:

“Copy this script (as root) from /usr/local/bin to /etc/init.d and then #update-rc.d zram defaults”

I don’t get any output, if I run this with sudo:

antix@antix1:~
$ sudo update-rc.d zram defaults
[sudo] password for antix: 
antix@antix1:~

What is it doing? I can not find a file or directroy rc.d. Where is it?

Then I tried to find the default settings for zram, as it is in the code from zram script:

   # Cumulative size of zram swapspace expressed as a percentage of available memory
   # Option, a value specified in /etc/default/zram overrides a value specified below
   # Examples
   #   PERCENTAGE=30
   #   PERCENTAGE=10
   # Default, PERCENTAGE=25

But I could not find such a file. Or what /etc is it? Not the one in the root?

And just a idea. Wouldn’t it also be helpful to have the option of specifying the zram size in MB and not as a percentage of the free ram?

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Ok, I was using the zram skript as it says in the file itself. Works basicly. I have not done nothing with /etc/rc.local, there is just exit 0.

The script is making a zram in % of the free ram. So of course it depends, what other appilcation you are running in the moment you start it. After reboot I got this:

$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/swapfile                               file		2097148	0	-1
/dev/zram0                              partition	199496	544	100

But with the command given in the zram script I got this:

$ lsmod | grep zram
zram                   18355  1

So what means 18255? Not the size? It comes from /sys/module/zram/coresize

Then I tried to change the default like it says in the zram script:

“Copy this script (as root) from /usr/local/bin to /etc/init.d and then #update-rc.d zram defaults”

I don’t get any output, if I run this with sudo:

antix@antix1:~
$ sudo update-rc.d zram defaults
[sudo] password for antix: 
antix@antix1:~

What is it doing? I can not find a file or directroy rc.d. Where is it?

Then I tried to find the default settings for zram, as it is in the code from zram script:

   # Cumulative size of zram swapspace expressed as a percentage of available memory
   # Option, a value specified in /etc/default/zram overrides a value specified below
   # Examples
   #   PERCENTAGE=30
   #   PERCENTAGE=10
   # Default, PERCENTAGE=25

But I could not find such a file. Or what /etc is it? Not the one in the root?

And just a idea. Wouldn’t it also be helpful to have the option of specifying the zram size in MB and not as a percentage of the free ram?

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Hi Xwcure,`
Many thanks for your advice. I have removed all my previous efforts and mounted the USB exfat stick manually.
I have used the make-fstab command to ensure I had it right and edited my /etc/fstab to include the line for the stick drive. I also added users and rw which seem right.
Here is my /etc/fstab now:-

alastair@Dell-9300-antix1:~
$ cat /etc/fstab
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=37407943-6191-4582-beca-681ecad4a2a9 / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=9e43a24f-37d5-4e02-a879-9faafe04026b /home ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
UUID=7aad6124-af34-4f9a-92e0-0e0ab681428b swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=64A5-F009 /media/alastair/big_stick exfat auto,exec,users,rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 noauto,exec,users,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrw /media/cdrw iso9660 noauto,exec,users,rw 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd udf noauto,exec,users,ro 0 0
/dev/dvdrw /media/dvdrw udf noauto,exec,users,rw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/sr0 auto noauto,exec,users,ro 0 0
alastair@Dell-9300-antix1:~
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Sadly this didn’t work. I can of course still mount it manually but sadly no auto function. I opted to put the mount point in /medai/alastair/ which is where other usb fat sticks are auto mounted.
You will have seen from the info in fstab about pluggable devices, which is why I went of on my earlier track. AFAIK the UUID for this stick is unique so another similar device will not work. Is that correct? Whatever the case, automount not yet working and I always get warning when I do mount the stick that it was not properly unmounted. UI assume this is just due to exfat.
Do you have any other edits I can try please?

[Member Budgie]

 cat fstab
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=37407943-6191-4582-beca-681ecad4a2a9 / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=9e43a24f-37d5-4e02-a879-9faafe04026b /home ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
UUID=7aad6124-af34-4f9a-92e0-0e0ab681428b swap swap defaults 0 0 
/dev/cdrom                                 /media/cdrom                                iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/cdrw                                  /media/cdrw                                 iso9660    noauto,exec,users,rw            0 0
/dev/dvd                                   /media/dvd                                  udf        noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/dvdrw                                 /media/dvdrw                                udf        noauto,exec,users,rw            0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /media/sr0                                  auto       noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
alastair@Dell-9300-antix1:/etc
$ 

I tried to mount the device as /dev/sdb1 but no.
This explains why I cannot mount but now I am stuck and need help.

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 26.854945] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
[  252.742193] usb 1-7: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[  252.871330] usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=090c, idProduct=1000, bcdDevice=11.00
[  252.871335] usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  252.871339] usb 1-7: Product: Flash Drive
[  252.871341] usb 1-7: Manufacturer: Samsung
[  252.871344] usb 1-7: SerialNumber: 0342120110012854
[  253.711289] usb-storage 1-7:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  253.714868] usb-storage 1-7:1.0: Quirks match for vid 090c pid 1000: 400
[  253.715946] scsi host2: usb-storage 1-7:1.0
[  253.717100] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  253.736214] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[  255.926942] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Samsung  Flash Drive      1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[  255.929499] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  255.930166] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 501253132 512-byte logical blocks: (257 GB/239 GiB)
[  255.930878] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  255.930883] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[  255.931511] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[  255.936292]  sdb: sdb1
[  255.938876] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

So it seems the device is seen as a drive but not properly mounted.
fdisk -l tells me all is ok:-

$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/ram0: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram1: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram2: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram3: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram4: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram5: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram6: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram7: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram8: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram9: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram10: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram11: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram12: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram13: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram14: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram15: 16 MiB, 16777216 bytes, 32768 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/sda: 74.5 GiB, 80026361856 bytes, 156301488 sectors
Disk model: HTS548080M9AT00
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda2 2048 31088639 31086592 14.8G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 31088640 152104959 121016320 57.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 152109056 156301487 4192432 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 239 GiB, 256641603584 bytes, 501253132 sectors
Disk model: Flash Drive
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 256 501253099 501252844 239G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
alastair@Dell-9300-antix1:~
$
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Sorry my touchpadis driving me crazy.
Grateful for your advice please.

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Something doesn’t work.

With:

echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled

I can activate zswap and

grep -R . /sys/module/zswap/parameters
dmesg | grep -i zswap

show me

root@antix1:/home/antix# grep -R . /sys/module/zswap/parameters
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled:Y
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent:20
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool:zbud
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor:lzo
root@antix1:/home/antix# dmesg | grep -i zswap
[    5.163930] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud

So it basically works. But when I edit etc / default / grub on

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="-1"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="<code>grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/lsb-release | cut -d= -f2 | cut -d\ -f2 2> /dev/null || echo Debian</code>"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL="console"

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command 
vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE="640x480"

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="false"
#GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/wallpaper/grub/back.png"

GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"
export GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-gray/black"
export GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="white/black"

and run

sudo update-grub
echo lz4 >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
echo lz4_compress >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
update-initramfs -u

and reboot, the zswap is still NOT activated. I get

root@antix1:/home/antix# cat /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled
N
root@antix1:/home/antix# dmesg | grep -i zswap
[    5.163930] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud

When I look at /boot/grub/grub.cfg, I can’t find anything with zswap there.

I have a Muliboot installation with antiX-19.3, Devuan and TinyCore. So with boot menu.

When I first time ran this line

update-initramfs -u

a message told me to remove cryptsetup-initrams. I did and it also removed cryptsetup

cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries 
    nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the 
    'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup initramfs 
    integration and avoid this warning.

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Hello,

I am new to AntiX but have used Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux before. I’m really glad you all still support the use of older 32-bit hardware on your recent versions. Because of this, I decided to use AntiX on a few old laptops I recently acquired.

Anyhow, after installing AntiX, I was unable to configure any printers.

Here is what I tried so far:

I went to the Control Centre, and I didn’t see “Printers” or anything like that under any of the sections/tabs.

I’m most familiar with configuring printers via the browser interface of CUPS, so I tried to access that.
I attempted to access CUPS via the browser (Firefox), using http://localhost:631, Firefox said “unable to connect”.

I also launched a terminal and did “sudo service cups restart” and also “sudo service cups start”, and received a message “cups: unknown service”.

I also tried to install cups using apt and apt-get “sudo apt install cups” and “sudo apt-get install cups” and received a message “E: Unable to locate package cups”.

Firefox also did not let me manage printers from the Print dialog box on the pages I was going to print, the only printer listed was the PDF output option, not a hardware printer.

I have also pasted below the output of “inxi -Fxz” in the terminal, if that helps with the version information, hardware etc.
System:
Host: antix19-gateway Kernel: 4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32
compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610
Distro: antiX-19-runit_386-base Marielle Franco 9 December 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Gateway product: Gateway M320 and 4500 Series
v: 53.01.03 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gateway model: Gateway M320 and 4500 Series
v: KBC K53.28.18������������� serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 53.01.03
date: 12/09/2004
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 7.5 Wh condition: 16.4/48.8 Wh (33%)
model: Gateway 4400 status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP
arch: M Dothan rev: 6 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: sse sse2 bogomips: 2591
Speed: 1296 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1296
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics vendor: Rioworks
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2
v: 1.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Rioworks
driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Rioworks driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: 3000 bus ID: 02:08.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN vendor: Gemtek
driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 3000 bus ID: 02:09.0
IF-ID-1: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 2.65 GiB (7.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS424040M9AT00 size: 37.26 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 33.92 GiB used: 2.60 GiB (7.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 487.9 MiB used: 49.4 MiB (10.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 139 Uptime: 26m Memory: 1.94 GiB used: 391.9 MiB (19.8%)
Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
inxi: 3.0.36

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

Warm regards,
antixnewbie21