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[Moderator christophe]

I can’t address your situation in full, but I can share some tips on running live. Things I always do:

1. NO swap FILE usage (whenever you remaster or add persistence files is when the system asks this, I think).

2. use ZRAM for swap — https://mxlinux.org/wiki/other/zram/

Hope this helps some. 🙂

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

My usage pattern has been creating one antiX liveUSB disk, and then use it exclusively, while hopping among my several computers, instead of installing antiX (frugal or not) on each of them. (Besides, some of them do not even equip with a hard disk.)

I understand that, reading data from a USB device is generally slower than reading it from a hard disk, as described in the “Introduction section of the antiX Frugal Install” page. In practice, my liveUSB’s presumably slower app starting time (than if I was running a hard disk based installation) is intangible, because, after an app – such as a browser – starts, it stays in memory and my opening-a-new-tab operation is not slow at all.

But, after the browser has been run for a longer time, or when a tab with a long video is being played, and then I try to open a new tab, my computer sometimes becomes sluggish. At that time, the CPU Load monitor on SysTray shows half of more red color, indicating that the CPU was busy on “sys” mode, I believe. And, my liveUSB flash disk’s I/O light is blinking. It can recover, if I close that busy tab.

My question is, why/when/what does a running LiveUSB session write data onto the USB disk? If it is some buffer data, can I somehow setup a ram disk for it?

Note:

1. antiX is supposed to be able to be run on RAM.
2. When my computer has a hard disk, I already create a large enough swap partition on it. And it seems the swap was not exhausted during the above situation. Even if it was exhausted, I did not anticipate a liveUSB session would use the USB disk itself as buffer, or, should I?
3. I could try the “toram” option when booting from a liveUSB, so that I can eject the USB disk entirely. But not all of my computers have enough memory for that. Besides, if the write-to-USB-disk shouldn’t happen in the first place, the “toram” option should not be necessary.

Is there any tweak options that I need to do, to avoid the I/O on my usb disk (other than those on ~/Live-usb-storage)?

Hi there,

As the title says, I am unable to make any selection inside GRUB unless I plug in the install media (Antix is fully installed and up-to-date).

Below are my specs:

$ inxi -Fz
System:
  Host: ***** Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 
  Distro: antiX-19.2.1_x64-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: 8I945GZME-RH serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Award v: F10 date: 05/28/2007 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 64 type: MT 
  L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  Speed: 3059 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3059 2: 3059 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel resolution: 1440x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945G v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet driver: skge 
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 3.90 GiB (2.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SP1654N size: 149.05 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 40.30 GiB used: 3.90 GiB (9.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 1023.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4 
Sensors:
  Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Info:
  Processes: 163 Uptime: 25m Memory: 1.95 GiB used: 805.5 MiB (40.4%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36 

GRUB is installed on the MBR and I have chosen sda as the install location (I had the option to select sda and fd0, but when trying to install there, it was showing me that fd0 is too small).

I tried to use boot repair to repair grub from both the installation media and the installed system, but still nothing

I tried to add the lines GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="usb_keyboard" and GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="usb usb_keyboard ohci uhci ehci" to /etc/default/grub (as in this thread on the Gentoo forums) and then run grub-update but the whole system was messed and I had to reinstall.

The keyboard works just fine both under Linux and Windows after boot, it is just in GRUB where I need to have the installation media inside so that the keys work

• This topic was modified 3 years ago by catalinux.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Thanks Moddit. I do see most of the fastest browsers preferring to start up using close to a GB of memory. In this regard Palemoon is definitely one of the best browsers because it can handle most pages yet it is more conservative with memory than all except the really minimal browsers that don’t offer full functionality.

I don’t see memory creep with Vivaldi, what I see is that the initial memory footprint probably works best on a computer with at least 4GB of memory installed, otherwise as you note, it may swap (at first). Based on the behavior I observed I believe that once it trims memory it will run more efficiently. I would also suggest that there are not many browsers that will run well with a lot of tabs open on a memory constrained system; Palemoon would probably be one of the best compromises in this situation.

--
Brian Masinick

[Member ModdIt]

Hallo Brian, had to ask kids to be sure. 3.0.1874.38-1
This version is using way higher memory than the last of the 2 series, seems memory usage can climb until the system becomes unusable.

Answer in forum to a poster was: recommend trying to upgrade the RAM to at least 4 GB or better yet 8 GB if you can. It will perform much better when it doesn’t need to rely on SWAP memory on a HDD. If the system doesn’t have upgradable RAM, a lighter browser that uses fewer resources than Vivaldi, or other Chromium based browsers, would probably work better for you, sorry.

After troubleshooting and setting a new profile followed suggestion in, https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/46771/higher-ram-usage-and-cpu-when-vivaldi-stable-begin.
Replaced by Palemoon which does not creep toward ever higher memory usage on updates.

[Member ModdIt]

Hi again, you wrote
I would have to reinitalize the cdrw somehow. It’s making old man noises when spinning and seems to be taking a long time to read the disks.

Pls now swap the cables to drives and see if you can verify drive is really ok before spending more time.

Old drives do fail quite often.

If drive OK use alsamixer gui, go through the sliders, there are a lot, because your sound may well be muted. A very common experience. I have often wondered why but guess there is a sensible reason for defaults.

[Member anti1alain]

Hey XE thank you for sticking with me today. I would like to solve this. Get my cd/dvd working and I’ll be cooking with gas. Coincidence with your choice of music that’s pretty funny. Or you are really good and know who I am. My name is Gregory….

I tried your solution above and included the screen capture. dev/sr0 not a file.

It is when I used your shift+L trick that I noticed the tree. Is my /media/sr0 file supposed to be under dev/? Or it is fine where it is? Still not working.

WHat about if I insert a dvd what will happen then? Which player will open? I would need them to start right up when inserted and figure which player to open automatically, or be able to assign it like we’re trying to do. Will I also have to do this with the video player or does XMMS play videos too?

Is there something you can look at that I can send so you see what is up with this?

3 days and counting on this install, it’s getting a little long. Just because I feel that I screwed this up.
PS. I properly downloaded the iso and burned it. I then played dvd and started up live in the demo. Working pretty fine. I tried to use the included installer over the whole hard disk on a WINXP system and properly followed the instructions. At the most crucial moments of partitioning and checking the boxes to ensure a proper install and putting the right boot and root in the right spots however is about 5 seconds compared to the rest of the video showing off the utilities once installed. I had to rewind over 5 times at that spot to try and see exactly how he did it. Anyway it would not install to the hard drive. Figured WINXP was screwing the install due to EIFI or BIOS or whatever I read. SO I DBAN the entire disk start from scratch, Antix had already overwrote the old XP OS. Retried other installs and finally it worked when I was told to use the grub repair and I figured to place the right boot and root, swap and home in the right partitions. Now we are here. Simple, insert CD/DVD it should play.

Love it or leave it

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Single Core, Intel Pentium 4 , 32bits, L2 cache 512mb
LLL (learning to love linux)

I run bootrepair app from desktop environment, from Antix 19.2 liveUSB and encounter error “Could not set up chroot environment. Please double-check the selected location.”

I chose its first option “Reinstall GRUB bootloader on ESP, MBR or PBR (root)”, (the second option “Repair GRUB configuration file” would yield same result, anyway). I then chose “install on MBR” and choose location as “sda”, selected root location as “sdb2” which is my “/live/boot-dev” (actually I also tried different root location options here, but again the outcome were the same). It ended up with an error: “Could not set up chroot environment. Please double-check the selected location.” I figure if I head to that route of manually doing the chroot preparation, it might eventually work. But perhaps the whole point of such “bootrepair” app is to save users from doing those manually.

And then I happened to redo the previous process, but by running bootrepair app from inside terminal, i.e. from the command-line sudo bootrepair. This way, the final outcome is still the same, but at least the console shows the screen output of each step.

bootrepair version: 17.15
/bin/lsblk -ln -o NAME,SIZE,LABEL,MODEL -d -e 2,11 -x NAME | /bin/grep -E ‘^x?[h,s,v].[a-z]|^mmcblk|^nvme’
“sda 55.9G HTS541060G9SA00\nsdb 4G MSFT_NORB\nsdc 3.2G MSFT_NORB”
/bin/lsblk -ln -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL -e 2,11 -x NAME | /bin/grep -E ‘^x?[h,s,v].[a-z][0-9]|^mmcblk[0-9]+p|^nvme[0-9]+n[0-9]+p’
“sda1 26.8G ntfs IBM_PRELOAD\nsda2 1K \nsda3 5.1G vfat IBM_SERVICE\nsda5 23.8G vfat /media/DATA DATA\nsda6 256M swap [SWAP] \nsdb1 204M vfat /media/USB-DATA USB-DATA\nsdb2 3.8G ext4 /live/boot-dev Live-usb\nsdb3 49M vfat /media/LIVE-UEFI LIVE-UEFI\nsdc1 3.2G ntfs /media/demo/DELL_PRO_64 DELL_PRO_64”
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sda| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sdb| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sda1| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sda2| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sda3| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sda5| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sda6| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sdb1| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sdb2| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sdb3| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o LABEL /dev/sdc1| /bin/grep -q rootantiX
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sda1| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sda2| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sda3| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sda5| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sda6| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/bin/lsblk -ln -o PARTTYPE /dev/sdb1| /bin/grep -qEi ‘0x83|0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4|44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A|4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709’
/sbin/cryptsetup isLuks /dev/sdb2
df / –output=source |sed -e 1d
“overlay”
/bin/mktemp -d –tmpdir -p /tmp
“/tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6”
/bin/mount /dev/sdb2 /tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6 && /bin/mount -o bind /dev /tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6/dev && /bin/mount -o bind /sys /tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6/sys && /bin/mount -o bind /proc /tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6/proc
“mount:”
“/tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6/dev: mount point does not exist.”

So, somehow, that /bin/mount -o bind /dev /tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6/dev was not successful. I opened another terminal to check, and noticed that /tmp/tmp.TUTUN9qlS6/dev directory did not exist. Is it supposed to be automatically created, during the bootrepair operation before I reached to this point? How, if possible, can I modify the scripts of bootrepair?

Some more background, if it would be helpful: my computer came with Windows XP pre-installed in its first hard drive partition, later I successfully installed a Lubuntu on an extended partition and the dual boot worked fine. Recently, since I’ve switched to exclusively use AntiX from liveUSB anyway, I nuked the Lubuntu partition and reclaimed/merged its space back to my another data-only partition. Now I can still boot with AntiX liveUSB, but the Windows XP on hard disk can not boot due to a messed-up GRUB.

Regards,
Ray

[Member manyroads]

Here is an error message I got from installing Head_on_a_Stick’s SharpBang (sid):

Items Debian sid does not find on this machine (during install).

ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:02:00:0.bin
ath10k/cal-pci-0000:02:00:0.bin

$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:    Host: mx19-ahs Kernel: 5.4.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
           Desktop: dwm 6.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.1_ahs_x64 patito feo February 15  2019
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5493 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10
           serial: <filter>
           Mobo: Dell model: 0M4FW1 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.3.0 date: 10/24/2019
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.9 Wh condition: 39.9/42.0 Wh (95%) volts: 13.0/11.4
           model: BYD DELL 1VX1H9A type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 serial: <filter>
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-1035G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ice Lake
           rev: 5 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19046
           Speed: 737 MHz min/max: 400/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 657 2: 926 3: 872 4: 622 5: 650
           6: 944 7: 680 8: 675
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:8a56
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
           compositor: compton v: 0.1~beta2+20150922 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics (Ice Lake 4x8 GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 19.3.3
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
           chip ID: 8086:34c8
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-3-amd64
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell RTL810xE
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell
           driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0042
           Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-10:5 chip ID: 0cf3:e009
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 551.22 GiB (57.8%)
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD size: 953.87 GiB
           speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: ECFM22.5 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / size: 59.69 GiB used: 13.13 GiB (22.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 227 Uptime: 2m Memory: 23.33 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (4.3%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93
           runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
           running in: sakura inxi: 3.0.36 

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by manyroads.

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
dwm & i3wm ~Reg. Linux User #449130
20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"

I had a nice post before but upon loading several screen captures in my previous post (how many can I post?) got booted as spam! I’ll be curt.

1. Cd-dvd not reading, mounting.Reading music nor pictures. (I already checked quite a bit on these forums for this issue and nothing clear nor specific about my problem.) Solved! (I did actually find something on the forums:

$ sudo mkdir /media/sr0, I tried it, and it worked. So I did the same for the 2nd dvd/burner drive. )

2. Cannot play streaming music: StreamTuner2,MPS, Poorman etc. 
3. I downloaded packets thru installer and manager in control center eg. SuperTuxKart and cannot find them or make them run. Does not appear in menu. (how can I see a list of my installed packages or manage them?) Is there an auto update manager I can run or how?
4. How to find a Weather conky or display on desktop.
5. Making desktop icons for favorite apps.(solved, I found this out alone, sorry)
That is it for now. Thanks comrades!

$ inxi -zv7
System:
Host: antix1alain Kernel: 4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32
compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5 dm: SLiM 1.3.6
Distro: antiX-19-runit_386-base Marielle Franco 9 December 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: IBM product: 8189E8U v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter>
Mobo: IBM model: IBM serial: <filter> BIOS: IBM v: 2AKT42AUS
date: 08/09/2004
Memory:
RAM: total: 486.2 MiB used: 265.4 MiB (54.6%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MT
arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 9 L2 cache: 512 KiB bogomips: 11171
Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2793 2: 2793
Flags: acpi apic bts cid clflush cmov cx8 de dts fpu fxsr ht mca mce mmx
msr mtrr pae pat pbe pebs pge pse pse36 sep ss sse sse2 tm tsc vme xtpr
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics vendor: IBM driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2572
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1440×900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 865G x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.3 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801EB/ER AC97 Audio vendor: IBM driver: snd_intel8x0
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 chip ID: 8086:24d5
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82541EI Gigabit Ethernet vendor: IBM driver: e1000
v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: 2000 bus ID: 03:0b.0 chip ID: 8086:1013
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: D-Link DWA-160 802.11abgn Xtreme N Dual Band Adapter(rev.B2)
[Ralink RT5572]
type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus ID: 1-4:4 chip ID: 2001:3c1a
serial: <filter>
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 3.47 GiB (4.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD800AAJS-00WAA0
size: 74.53 GiB speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: 1D58 scheme: MBR
Floppy-1: /dev/fd0
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD-ROM GDR-H30N rev: 1.00
dev-links: cdrom,dvd
Features: speed: 52 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none
state: running
Optical-2: /dev/sr1 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD-RAM GSA-H55N rev: 1.03
dev-links: cdrw,dvdrw
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 42.27 GiB used: 3.39 GiB (8.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
label: rootantiX19 uuid: 6eba7e01-f2ed-4d47-b867-0ef121a7693d
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 88.3 MiB (4.3%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
label: swapantiX uuid: e4d98779-4fbb-4d8f-b4a4-62e867439853
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Device-1: 1-4:4 info: D-Link DWA-160 802.11abgn Xtreme N Dual Band
Adapter(rev.B2) [Ralink RT5572]
type: Network driver: rt2800usb interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 2001:3c1a serial: <filter>
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Device-2: 2-1:2 info: Dell Keyboard type: Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
chip ID: 413c:2003
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Device-3: 3-1:2 info: Chic type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 05fe:0202
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 70.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 141 Uptime: 3h 41m Init: runit v: N/A runlevel: 2 default: 5
Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: roxterm
inxi: 3.0.36

$ inxi -r
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/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.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.gr.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

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Single Core, Intel Pentium 4 , 32bits, L2 cache 512mb
LLL (learning to love linux)

HI guys, I’ve listed my specs to get help completing my install and getting this system functioning. I have listed the issues I’m having with hardware and software since my install. I’ve numbered my priorities:
1. Cd, dvd, not mounting or finding file. (I would like to include a screen shot of the error message, but I don’t know how on here)
2. Problems streaming music: StreamTuner2, or Poormanradio. (I also downloaded some apps thru package installer and manager and cannot find them) eg. SuperTuxCart not listed in my apps menu.
3. Not able to read cd pictures nor music. (See 1)
4. MPS youtube not working. (API issue; I checked some of this out and seems a little complicated with google and registering.) SMTube works; however to play videos or music I have to right click “read with: mpv + youtube-dl” I would like this to work by just clicking on the link.
5. Once I get most of these working how can I make them desktop short cuts? Easy for someone not used to computers : watch and manage pictures & listen to music.
6. Is there an automatic update manager?
7. What weather conky can I use on desktop?
8. Those are my main issues. The next 2 I might as well give my impressions so far.
9. Very speedy. As you can see by my specs this is a dinosaur desktop from the beginning of the new millenia. In comparing the WINXp OS to Antix OS on this machine I am amazed at how functional it has now become. Sorry for the rant, but I realize that some people and me prior to linux would stop using a computer or go and buy a new one because of the Windows bog down since it is just so long to boot and open windows and the apps and updates ahhh. So if I get all my issues resolved and I am sure I will: 3 thumbs up for Antix for old computers (which is the search term I used to find out about Antix).
10. Happy so far, works pretty well and lite for 512mb ram system. Still learning and playing around updating and configuring, Will use again on another machine.
Thank you.
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$ inxi -zv7
System:
Host: antix1alain Kernel: 4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32
compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5 dm: SLiM 1.3.6
Distro: antiX-19-runit_386-base Marielle Franco 9 December 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: IBM product: 8189E8U v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter>
Mobo: IBM model: IBM serial: <filter> BIOS: IBM v: 2AKT42AUS
date: 08/09/2004
Memory:
RAM: total: 486.2 MiB used: 278.6 MiB (57.3%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MT
arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 9 L2 cache: 512 KiB bogomips: 11171
Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2793 2: 2793
Flags: acpi apic bts cid clflush cmov cx8 de dts fpu fxsr ht mca mce mmx
msr mtrr pae pat pbe pebs pge pse pse36 sep ss sse sse2 tm tsc vme xtpr
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics vendor: IBM driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2572
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1440×900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 865G x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.3 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801EB/ER AC97 Audio vendor: IBM driver: snd_intel8x0
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 chip ID: 8086:24d5
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82541EI Gigabit Ethernet vendor: IBM driver: e1000
v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: 2000 bus ID: 03:0b.0 chip ID: 8086:1013
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: D-Link DWA-160 802.11abgn Xtreme N Dual Band Adapter(rev.B2)
[Ralink RT5572]
type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus ID: 1-4:4 chip ID: 2001:3c1a
serial: <filter>
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 3.39 GiB (4.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD800AAJS-00WAA0
size: 74.53 GiB speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: 1D58 scheme: MBR
Floppy-1: /dev/fd0
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD-ROM GDR-H30N rev: 1.00
dev-links: cdrom,dvd
Features: speed: 52 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none
state: running
Optical-2: /dev/sr1 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD-RAM GSA-H55N rev: 1.03
dev-links: cdrw,dvdrw
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 42.27 GiB used: 3.36 GiB (8.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
label: rootantiX19 uuid: 6eba7e01-f2ed-4d47-b867-0ef121a7693d
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 30.0 MiB (1.5%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
label: swapantiX uuid: e4d98779-4fbb-4d8f-b4a4-62e867439853
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Device-1: 1-4:4 info: D-Link DWA-160 802.11abgn Xtreme N Dual Band
Adapter(rev.B2) [Ralink RT5572]
type: Network driver: rt2800usb interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 2001:3c1a serial: <filter>
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Device-2: 2-1:2 info: Dell Keyboard type: Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
chip ID: 413c:2003
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Device-3: 3-1:2 info: Chic type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 05fe:0202
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 137 Uptime: 2h 02m Init: runit v: N/A runlevel: 2 default: 5
Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: roxterm
inxi: 3.0.36

$ inxi -r
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/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.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.gr.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

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Single Core, Intel Pentium 4 , 32bits, L2 cache 512mb
LLL (learning to love linux)

[Moderator BobC]

I am not going to pretend I would be able to figure out an answer, but “Smart” is a harddrive error monitoring system.

Nobody is going to even be able to guess without knowing what kind of computer you have and what kind of drive is in it.

Also, if you would go to a terminal and run/post the results of

inxi -Fxz

Someone might be able to at least guess. Do you have a spare disk drive you could swap in to try instead of that one? A lot of times if there are hardware problems suspected, it’s easiest to just swap in a different part to see if it solves the problem.

[Member ModdIt]

Never Ever start a computer without adequate chip cooling. You might be lucky and the protection circuits save processor and board. You might destroy both in milliseconds. We saw a processor explode as internal circuits vaporized, expensive and could have resulted in a blind technician had he not worn glasses.

Looks like the one mentioned in this thread is still surviving but methods mentioned are for the desperate fringe.

On the Linux tools kids suggested to go over to Arch forums and search on usage. We are all learning but this one
seems not at that level.

Hard to know best way to go, you might be able to find an Intel Processor Diagnostic tool fitting for your legacy CPU.
knowing if the issue is board or CPU would be useful. Could even be both but that is rather unlikely.
Not sure I would risk swapping out Processor from a friends Laptop, or fitting mine in his.
Unlikely to do damage but who knows.

I would be searching for same device with damaged screen or similar, try with a fresh processor if getting a genuine article is
really so cheap.

Depending on your locality it might be worth calling a computer recycling facility or repair shops to see
if they have any spares or an old repair guy who knows the issue and solution. Wish you luck and expert help.

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[Member majorr92]

still the same 100% CPU with SWAP 🙁

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

A swap partition might help

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