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[Forum Admin BitJam]

@seaken64, we had too many complaints about irrecoverable data loss when people used fat32 for their live usbs. If you want to have the first partition be fat32 and the 2nd partition be ext4 with the live-usb stuff, there is a recipe for swapping them around in this thread; antiX live usb maker PARTITION TABLE issue?. This will change the partitioning to gpt and this will cause problems on some Dell models.

It breaks my heart when our users needlessly lose all their data. In addition, there have been a lot of bogus myths and suggestions saying fat32 and ext2 are better for usb sticks and there are a lot of people who fall for this nonsense and still believe it. Few people take the risk of data loss seriously until it happens to them. You can probably still make an antiX/MX fat32 live-usb with Rufus. You could also do it manually by saving everything on the ext4 partition, use mkfs.vfat to convert it to a fat32 partition and copy everything back. If you want to boot legacy then you will need to run syslinux to reinstall the bootloader. I’d call this Kovorian
mode and I think it is ill-advised unless you absolutely do not care about losing all of your data.

There is an old saying that there are two kinds of people in the world, those who have never lost any data and those who make backups. I think there may be something similar about losing data due to an unreliable file system.

It’s like asking someone to make cars without seatbelts or air bags. Sure, the chances of any one person dying or worse may be small but the manufacturer will still have a lot of blood on their hands.

Context is worth 80 IQ points -- Alan Kay

[Member andfree]

Anonymous wrote:

You post mentions antiX Full on 2 kits…
yet the inxi output shows “antiX-17_386-base“

The LiveUSB doesn’t work on the celeron kit, so I ran the “inxi” command from the installed (base) system. See below the output from LiveUSB on one of the kits that it works:

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17.4_386-full Helen Keller 6 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: <filter> BIOS: TOSHIBA 
  v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5586 
  Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.2 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 
  bus ID: 02:09.0 
  IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 100.63 GiB used: 2.72 GiB (2.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1032GAX size: 93.16 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: USB FLASH DRIVE size: 7.47 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 3.12 GiB used: 626.2 MiB (19.6%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 114 Uptime: 13m Memory: 1002.7 MiB used: 109.0 MiB (10.9%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29

[Anonymous]

snipped from the top websearch result for “/etc/systemd/systemd directory”

freedesktop.org/…/man/systemd.unit.html

A unit file is a plain text ini-style file that encodes information about a service, a socket, a device, a mount point, an automount point, a swap file or partition, a start-up target, a watched file system path, a timer controlled and supervised by systemd(1), a resource management slice or a group of externally created processes.

. . .

Load path when running in system mode:

/etc/systemd/system.control
/run/systemd/system.control
/run/systemd/transient
/run/systemd/generator.early
/etc/systemd/system {—- Local configuration
/run/systemd/system {—— Runtime units
/run/systemd/generator
/usr/local/lib/systemd/system {——- Units of installed packages
/usr/lib/systemd/system
/run/systemd/generator.late Generated units with low priority (see late-dir in systemd.generator(7))

Various debian packages will install these in case systemd is used on a system, or with the expectation that systemd will be used. On an antiX system, the config and unit files residing in the /etc/systemd/system directory “do nothing, are not used” by the operating system. However, deleting them is inadvisable b/c some applications test the (expected) presence of their associated unit or config file at each launch & may chirp if those files (placed during installation of the application’s package) are absent.

AntiX 17.4 (full) LiveUSB worked on two kits, but it doesn’t work on this celeron one (see below). After loading, the cursor seems dead, and I only can use the combo <Alt + PrtSc + type “reisub”> to reboot. Adding the line “needs_root_rights=yes“ to /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config didn’t help.

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17_386-base Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario 2100 v: KE.M1.54 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 002A v: NS570 Version PQ1A74 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Phoenix v: KE.M1.54 date: 12/17/20022 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Mobile Intel Celeron bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 256 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3190 
  Speed: 1595 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1595 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RS200M [Radeon IGP 330M/340M/345M/350M] 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:05.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9 128 bits) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus ID: 00:06.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: ali1535_smbus v: N/A port: 2000 
  bus ID: 00:11.0 
  Device-2: National DP83815 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: natsemi v: kernel port: 2400 bus ID: 00:12.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 802.11n [Atheros 
  AR9170] 
  type: USB driver: carl9170 bus ID: 1-1:2 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 16.52 GiB (29.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK6025GAS size: 55.89 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 52.76 GiB used: 16.52 GiB (31.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.03 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 130 Uptime: 35m Memory: 487.8 MiB used: 191.7 MiB (39.3%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 
  inxi: 3.0.29

[Member cyrilus31]

Works perfectly on this system:

System:    Host: Cyrilus Kernel: 4.19.13-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
           v: 6.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.1_x64 Continuum December 15  2017 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite P200 v: PSPB6E-10S01XFR 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: TOSHIBA model: ISRAA v: 1.00 serial: <filter> BIOS: TOSHIBA v: 2.70 
           date: 12/13/2010 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 44.4 Wh condition: 44.4/44.4 Wh (100%) model: TOSHIBA PA3536U 
           status: Unknown 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T9300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn 
           rev: 6 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 9975 
           Speed: 2494 MHz min/max: 800/2401 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2499 2: 2494 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RV630/M76 [Mobility Radeon HD 2600] 
           vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1440x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV630 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.13-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 7.0.0) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Device-2: AMD RV630 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 2600 PRO/XT / HD 3610] 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.13-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 
           bus ID: 04:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network driver: iwl3945 v: in-tree:s 
           port: 4000 bus ID: 05:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 15.69 GiB (10.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD1600BEVS-07RST0 size: 149.05 GiB 
           temp: 29 C 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 143.71 GiB used: 15.69 GiB (10.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 49 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/mxlinux.org-packages/antix/stretch/ stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://debian.proxad.net/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://debian.proxad.net/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/mxlinux.org-packages/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 
           1: deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free #Opera Browser (final releases)
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           1: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib
Info:      Processes: 196 Uptime: 10m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 723.5 MiB (24.1%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29

So there are issues with our P4 systems

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by cyrilus31.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by cyrilus31.

[Member andfree]

On the other kit (see below), antiX forum opens right after having installed midori 8. Posting now from it, but it’s painfully slower than palemoon. If palemoon-non-sse2 hadn’t stopped being supported, I wouldn’t care.

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17_386-base Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario 2100 v: KE.M1.54 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 002A v: NS570 Version PQ1A74 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Phoenix v: KE.M1.54 date: 12/17/20022 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Mobile Intel Celeron bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 256 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3189 
  Speed: 1595 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1595 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RS200M [Radeon IGP 330M/340M/345M/350M] 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:05.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9 128 bits) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus ID: 00:06.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: ali1535_smbus v: N/A port: 2000 
  bus ID: 00:11.0 
  Device-2: National DP83815 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: natsemi v: kernel port: 2400 bus ID: 00:12.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 802.11n [Atheros 
  AR9170] 
  type: USB driver: carl9170 bus ID: 1-2:3 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 16.42 GiB (29.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK6025GAS size: 55.89 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 52.76 GiB used: 16.40 GiB (31.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.03 GiB used: 17.2 MiB (0.8%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 132 Uptime: 51m Memory: 487.8 MiB used: 348.4 MiB (71.4%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 
  inxi: 3.0.29

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by andfree.

[Member andfree]

Thanks for your help. Indeed, no mx testrepo in any of my lists. I placed it in the various list, too. I installed gdebi and used it to install the keyring_all.deb for the repo. I used Synaptic to install midori 8. After all, I unticked the check box for the mx testrepo and hit reload.

Unfortunately, midori doesn’t run fine on this antiX system. Pages seem to be loaded but, at the end, only a blank page is displayed.

$ midori

(midori:2441): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_regex_match_full: assertion 'string != NULL' failed

(midori:2441): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to GtkPaned 0x1af2430 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

** (midori:2441): CRITICAL **: session.vala:278: Failed add tab to session database: Invalid type '(null)' in statement: 
                INSERT INTO tabs (crdate, tstamp, session_id, uri, title)
                VALUES (:crdate, :tstamp, :session_id, :uri, :title)
                

(midori:2441): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to GtkPaned 0x1af2430 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

(midori:2441): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to GtkPaned 0x1af2430 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

(midori:2441): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to GtkPaned 0x1af2430 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

(midori:2441): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to GtkPaned 0x1af2430 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: ts2450s203 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
           Distro: antiX-17_386-base Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: <filter> BIOS: TOSHIBA v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
           flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5586 
           Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: nouveau v: kernel 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.2 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1f.5 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
           driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 bus ID: 02:09.0 
           IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 93.16 GiB used: 49.13 GiB (52.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1032GAX size: 93.16 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 81.32 GiB used: 49.13 GiB (60.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 116 Uptime: 23m Memory: 1002.8 MiB used: 271.6 MiB (27.1%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by andfree.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by andfree.

[Member roland]

A good suggestion Admin, WICD is looking on eth0 while wireless is on eth1, easily switched in the preferences. But this relates to a previous post – why is the boot trying to swap eth0 to eth1 and eth1 to eth0 ? I never discovered why, just put up with it when it took place. Maybe using WICD and CENI indescriminately is causing them to get confused? The many networks in this building seem to be an ever-changing proposition, I connect automatically 10 or 20 times without trouble, then can’t and need CENI to find what’s there and replace the interface.

[Member lmde]

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.146-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.3.1_x64-base Helen Keller 27 December 2018 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP Pavilion 061 product: RF763AA-ABF a1620.fr 
  v: 0nx0114RE101LEUC300 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTek model: LEUCITE3 v: 2.00 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 3.16 
  date: 08/11/2006 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium D bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Netburst Presler 
  rev: 4 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 bogomips: 11203 
  Speed: 2800 MHz min/max: 2400/2800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2800 2: 2400 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV43 [GeForce 6600] 
  vendor: Gigabyte GV-NX66128DP Turbo Force Edition driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV43 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard Pavilion A1512X driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1b.<strong>0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.146-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family LAN vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e100 
  v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: ee00 bus ID: 02:08.0 
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 3.17 GiB (1.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD2500JS-60NCB1 size: 232.89 GiB 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801GR/GDH (ICH7R/ICH7DH) SATA Controller [RAID mode] 
  driver: ahci v: 3.0 bus ID: 00:1f.2 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 14.64 GiB used: 3.02 GiB (20.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: /home size: 211.60 GiB used: 146.4 MiB (0.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.96 GiB used: 316 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 150 Uptime: 53m Memory: 994.7 MiB used: 637.8 MiB (64.1%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29 
tux@antix1:~

I did a test with the backport driver : the nvidia module not found
I did a test with the principal driver : no screen found
with the nvidia driver, it seems that I have a screen detection problem with EDID.
I re-installed new driver and created a xorg.conf with a modeline that works well with the new driver.
I reinstalled the nvidia driver and modified the xorg.conf by replacing the new driver in the device section with nvidia. But I still have a black screen when I reboot, I made several unsuccessful attempts…

I’m probably racking my brains for nothing with this old card, because there’s probably an insignificant difference between the performance of the nvidia driver and the new driver

[Anonymous]

But I’m a complete linux noob. So I’m not sure I’d even know where to begin doing those ideas.

Going to IT specialist around the corner might be a better idea in that case. 😉

However, here the best possible answer, without even knowing what kind of computer/configuration you are trying to retrieve the data from.
(I saw XP, but it also depends who/which company installed it.)

You would boot from a CD and end up at the desktop — that is, if all went well.
Then you would see what is on my screenshot and proceed with clicking on:

Menu/Applications/System Tools/SpaceFM

SpaceFM (Space File Manager) would open and show what’s on my screenshot.
On the left hand side, you would probably be able to see your OS HD.

Anything loop, swap and such you can ignore.
What’s important for you is sdasomeNUMBER.

sda stands for the 1st Hard Disk, sdb for the 2nd HD, sdc for the 3rd, sdd for the 4th and so on.

The number behind those first three letters stands for the partitions.
Since I don’t know how your HD is/was formated, can’t tell you more.

Normal Windows 7 installation would have 2 partitions, the first one being around 100MB in size and the other all the rest.
Windows XP normally has only 1 partition.

Some manufacturers include their own recovery partitions and if this is the case with your computer too, then you would have 2 partitions in XP and 3 in Windows 7.

100MB partition in Win7 you can always ignore — you’d want the biggest one, so very probably sda2 or sda3.
In your case of XP, it’s sda1 or sda2 (if there is recovery partition installed).
Again the biggest partition is usually the one that contains your data.

Your CD with antiX should show as sdb and some number.
sr0 is a CD/DVD drive.

[Member betman]

@rokytnji. Sorry. Here are the specs:

System:    Host: zwx Kernel: 4.9.146-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.2.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 
           Distro: antiX-17.3.1_x64-base Helen Keller 27 December 2018 base: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Gateway 4250s v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Acer model: Gateway 4250s serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.01 date: 08/14/2013 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 265.2 Wh condition: 267.8/47.5 Wh (564%) model: standard status: Unknown 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: AMD A4-3320M APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Fusion 
           L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 7985 
           Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 800/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 800 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Sumo [Radeon HD 6480G] driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD SUMO (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.146-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 7.0.1) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.4 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:01.1 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia vendor: Holco Enterprise Co /Shuttle driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.146-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Holco Enterprise Co /Shuttle driver: r8169 
           v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.2 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8723ae v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 10.08 GiB (2.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000LPVX-22V0TT0 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 454.96 GiB used: 10.01 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
           ID-2: /boot size: 487.8 MiB used: 68.5 MiB (14.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 488 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 53 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 196 Uptime: 19h 39m Memory: 1.68 GiB used: 1.03 GiB (61.6%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 8.2.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.2 inxi: 3.0.29 

Any solution now?

[Member mizpa]

Thanks noClue, but my version doesn’t have the quick links that you show. To find ‘messages’, I have to go to ‘Change your settings’ and down to ‘messages’ chat shows nothing, and there’s only one message in there, from the member I’m trying to communicate with. It only shows his message to me and no others. and that’s on this laprop! I still haven’t got the antiX installed on the old D610, becuz it screwed everything up, no grub, no startup with F12, no nothing except a bunch of readouts that continue to go on and on (no rhyme nor reason) until I shut the laptop down. I have a Win7 install that came on that computer, I just used gparted to make the M$ partition smaller so I could make a swap partition and one for the antiX. I’m going to download a new version of antiX – hopefully ‘testing’ if it’s available, and then try again after I check the md5sums. If that dowsn’t work, skidoo gave me an idea about changing over to testing from a regular antiX install. (I wish I’d known that before I wiped out my antiX on that laptop.)
Thanks
Mizpa

[Anonymous]

BobC, although I do try to “pay attention” and “pass along links/info”, I’m not a developer, just a wannabe-helpful (and sometimes loudmouth) contributor / peer.

From paying attention, I can tell ya that just about any “github” link related to antiX is outdated.
Swapping “gitlab” into the URL you posted,
we can notice that some of the files there have been updated as recently as 2 weeks ago
https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/desktop-defaults-icewm

[Moderator BobC]

I had the impression Hierax_ca is trying to work it without using the mouse, but I could be wrong.

IceWM has a built in Cascade option, but I prefer 4 quadrants and maybe a center zoom window. Many of my windows are full screen unless I am copying and pasting from one to another, in which case I use the WinGrid to move them to quadrants, and most of the time I use the trackpad mouse if I can. If I get too many windows going and really need them, reorganize the desktop by moving some to different workspaces based on which I will use together.

One thing that could be done, but not easily would be to calculate what window already exists in the area you want to move the window to, and swap that window for the active one. It might work for quadrants, but if the windows were not quadrant sized, it would get tricky to code because that is going to happen.

I wrote 2 WinGrid-like functions for this to replace builtin IceWM functions that only allowed a single key mapping because they were in preferences not keys, and the Center-Zoom which is something new/different that I had written as a Brief macro for my PC in the late 80’s under DOS before windows came along.

The new IceWM comes with much nicer keyboard mapping, so maybe the default keyboard shortcuts help will no longer be needed. That would save needing to create, store and display files in other languages.

Hierax_ca, if you can sell us on the concept of what you were asking for in #6 in terms of what will it do to make the desktop better for people, and any example of something like it that already exists, or if not, then maybe a video with voice or text explanation of you doing manually what you are asking for the program to do automatically for you…

I found this for XFCE. I downloaded the code and will see what it does.

# winfuncs.sh – Tile, Cascade, Expose’ Windows, etc
# https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6841
# 2012-02-24 22:00:28
# by caibbor
# I created this bash scripts to make up for some features I wished XFCE had. these scripts should theoretically work with several window/desktop managers. the only requirements for these is wmctrl, xwininfo and xdotool.
# update: I’ve merged the two scripts and they should run a tad faster.
# I’m still looking for a way to re-maximize windows after the “window select” function.
# I’m also still looking for a way to determine what windows are non-resizable by the user so that the script doesn’t resize them, either (currently, it does)

# usage

# ./winfuncs.sh select # arrange windows in a tiled manner, click on one to have it brought forward, all windows return to previous positions/sizes (suggested xbindkeys combo: Mod4 + Tab)

# ./winfuncs.sh tile # tile all windows on screen (suggested xbindkeys combo: Mod4 + t)

# ./winfuncs.sh tiletwo # after running this, click two windows. they will tile side-by-side. (suggested xbindkeys combo: Mod4 + c:23) (c:23 is the ‘2’ key)

# ./winfuncs.sh cascade

# ./winfuncs.sh showdesktop

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by BobC.

Hey Dawgs,

Let’s start at the very beginning – a very good place to start:

I have an HP Pavilions PC with 8 powered USB ports [For 4 cameras.] and these specs:

Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP Pavilion 061 product: PC028A-ABA A620N
v: 0nB1211RE101KELUT00 serial: <filter> Chassis: Hewlett-Packard type: 3
serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTek model: Kelut v: 2.02 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 3.03
date: 02/09/2004
Memory:
RAM: total: 1.97 GiB used: 161.0 MiB (8.0%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Are you root?
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ bits: 32 type: UP
arch: K7 Palomino+ L2 cache: 512 KiB bogomips: 4400
Speed: 2200 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2200
Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch apic cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx mmxext msr
mtrr pae pat pge pse pse36 sep sse syscall tsc vme vmmcall
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 10de:0343
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
alternate: nv resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV36 v: 1.5 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_via82xx
v: kernel bus ID: 00:11.5 chip ID: 1106:3059
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.126-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: VIA VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: via-rhine v: N/A
port: e000 bus ID: 00:12.0 chip ID: 1106:3065
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: mngtmpaddr dynamic scope: global
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 4.25 GiB (2.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SP1604N size: 149.05 GiB speed: <unknown>
serial: <filter> rev: 0-24 scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: _NEC model: DVD+RW ND-2100AD rev: 1.26 dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 40 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw
state: running
Optical-2: /dev/sr1 vendor: ASUS model: CD-S480/AH rev: 0.87 dev-links: N/A
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: no rw: none state: running
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 143.71 GiB used: 4.25 GiB (3.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
label: rootantiX17.1 uuid: f7bae392-2ec7-42a1-a629-9f8198b20d91
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
label: antiXswap uuid: 2c90e8b3-746b-4777-af48-b9a51bf12999
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
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 4-1:2 info: Dell Multimedia Pro Keyboard Hub ports: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 413c:1005
Device-1: 4-1.1:3 info: Dell Multimedia Pro Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 413c:2011
Device-2: 4-2:4 info: Logitech M105 Optical Mouse type: Mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 046d:c077
Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Device-3: 5-1:2 info: Alcor Micro 8-in-1 Media Card Reader type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 058f:9360
serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
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I’d like to use this HP for a WEB TV Studio box to allow:
1.) Video Production with +/-4 WEB Cameras.
2.) Video Editing.
3.) Video Storage for download or viewing over Internet.

A stripped down version of Linux seems to be the best OS without any “MS-Office” style – WEB Browser – Email or other typical installed software. The BOX has only two jobs – make videos – make them available for download or viewing . THAT’s it nothing else.

With that in mind:
A. Which version of antiX is ideal for the bare bones OS AND
B. What linux based software is ideal for making/editing videos?
C. How do I wipe/clean/erase the corrupted 17.2 version of antiX off
the hard drive and load/install the recommended version?

Thanx Dawgs,
PFO