antix’s default file manager and hdd drive

[Anonymous]

Hello, new to antix
I’m having problems with its default filemanager , when I click on it to see my files it shows up like this
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I also want to change the default file manager to anything other than this but I tried but couldn’t.
Also I can’t see my files on other hard drives including windows 7 and solydx distro.

They are mounted an accessible but I can’t use the default file manager to see them.

Any help appreciated.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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spacefm is already included. maybe you prefer that.

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[Anonymous]

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@anticapitalista Yeah thanks, after a few hours playing with the environment I have got a taste of the distro.

But I have faced two problems :
1.udevil: denied 88: device /dev/sda2 is an internal device and you’re not root
I don’t know what to do, it is my windows7 drive.
I’ve looked up online for it but I couldn’t find anything helpful.

The second problem is with the low volume level and I don’t know who to fix that. Again for this I have searched online but couldn’t find anything useful.

[Member Xecure]

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There is a lot you need to tell us to help out. You could start with executing this in terminal and pasting the output in your next reply:
inxi -Fxz

Anonymous wrote:

But I have faced two problems :
1.udevil: denied 88: device /dev/sda2 is an internal device and you’re not root
I don’t know what to do, it is my windows7 drive.

I suspect you W7 partition is ntfs. Is that correct?
I have W10 and antiX 19 running on a tablet, and I can access my W10 partition from spacefm.
First, change you File manager to spacefm:

PPC wrote:

The default File Manager (it’s called “Rox”) looks too different from what you are used to? antiX has no shortage of file managers, you can try something that looks more like a mainstream File Manager (similar to Windows File Explorer, for example) – it’s called SpaceFM:
Menu > Applications > System > SpaceFM

Do you like SpaceFM enough to always want to use it to access your files? Make it the default File Manager:
Menu > Control Centre > Default Applications (it’s the “yellow star” icon) > Click the input field to the right of “File Manager” and select “spacefm.desktop” from the list, Click “Open” on that selection window, then “Ok” on the main window. From now on, when you click the File Manager icon on the toolbar or the menu, or plug in and external drive, it will always launch SpaceFM.

Then, open Spacefm and show devices.

PPC wrote:

Any external drive should automaticaly come up on your screen, on your default file manager. If it does not, and you are using SpaceFM file manager, open it and check if your drive is listed on the “Devices” list, on the upper left corner of the screen. If it is, left click it to access it.

Click on the windows partition. It should mount automatically and open in a new tab.

Anonymous wrote:

The second problem is with the low volume level and I don’t know who to fix that. Again for this I have searched online but couldn’t find anything useful.

You may need to change the audio driver. But you could also test how it goes with pulseaudio:

Xecure wrote:

Getting pulseaudio in your system:

1. Installing pulseaudio:
Open a terminal and execute
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol

2. Make pulseaudio launch on startup
Edit startuo file
geany ~/.desktop-session/startup
Add a line that launches pulseaudio

#launch pulseaudio Daemon on startup
pulseaudio -D &

Save and exit

3. Making volume-icon use pulseaudio (and manage volume and properties)
right-click the volume icon in your systray and click on Preferences.
Have External mixer execute pavucontrol. It originally says:
External mixer desktop-defaults-run -t alsamixer
Replace it with:
External mixer pavucontrol

Reboot your system. From this moment on, you will no longer need to add “apulse” to your commands for any pulseaudio dependent browsers/programs.

Please read:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/short-essential-how-to-list-for-the-complete-linux-newbie/
and
http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-19/FAQ/index.html
to learn more about antiX.

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[Forum Admin Dave]

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For the first, you can mount it via right clicking and selecting mount under the root submenu. However you would probably be better off adding the internal partitions to /etc/fstab and allowing user read/write if having a regular user access the drive is the goal.

For the second you should be able to right click on the sound icon and press open mixer and adjust the sound levels. If this does not work, I think the mixer is also available in the control centre access via the main system menu. Alternatively you can access the mixer by opening up a terminal and typing
alsamixer
followed by pressing enter/return.

If you are taking note of the sound level being different on restart this is changed in ~/.desktop-session/desktop-session.conf
You can open this in a text editor or via the control centre under the session tab. If opening with the control centre, all of the desktop-session related files will be opened. You will then need to select the desktop-session.conf tab.
Changing the line that reads:
STARTUP_SOUND_LEVEL="[0-9]%"
To the sound level you would like. Example:
STARTUP_SOUND_LEVEL="75%"

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Dave.

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[Anonymous]

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https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/volume-level-sound-level-default-sound-level-setting/#post-19309

here’s a related tip:

    re: Sound volume at 100% still low

    BTW, the alsamixer in the control center should have a “pre-amp” setting on the far right of the controls.
    you can use this to bump up the base sound volume. 

The control for pre-amp within the too-wide UI may be offscreen until you scroll right.
(When not all controls fit the screen width, a row of green arrows along right side provides a hint.)

[Anonymous]

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I did all what you guys suggested but my computer sound completely vanished.
here is my system info:

System:
  Host: Kazmov Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5 
  Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: EP41T-UD3L v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Award v: F7 date: 06/25/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Pentium E5700 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn 
  rev: A L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11999 
  Speed: 3000 MHz min/max: 1200/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3000 2: 3000 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768~85Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: NV86 v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Gigabyte GA-D525TUD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: be00 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter type: USB 
  driver: rtl8xxxu bus ID: 1-2:3 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 312.72 GiB used: 5.97 GiB (1.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200AAKS-61L9A0 
  size: 298.09 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Transcend model: JetFlash Transcend 16GB 
  size: 14.63 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 95.62 GiB used: 4.80 GiB (5.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 60 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 162 Uptime: 3m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 937.5 MiB (23.7%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

I tried to undo everything but again I don’t have sound.

[Member Xecure]

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Please, tell us what steps and in what order you followed.
Also a screenshot of Alsamixer would be good.
When running Sound test (Control Centre > Hardware or executing in terminal:
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

What are the output results?

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[Anonymous]

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@Xecure I looked up online for a solution and I just got back to alsa, idk why pavucontrol won’t work for me anyway.
BUT thank you guys for your suggestion about the start up volume adjustment, now I have louder (But with terrible quality) sounds.
I should look up for the next problem: The bad quality sound with alsa,

[Anonymous]

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I did a search and this one worked: Ask Ubuntu

Now the quality is insane! And the sound volume is appropriate.
But yet the problem with accessing sda2 (which is my windows 7) persists.
I already was using spacefm but no luck.
I still get udevil: denied 88: device /dev/sda2 is an internal device and you’re not root

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Can you access the drive via root user spacefm or rox-filer?

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

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Anonymous wrote:

I did a search and this one worked: Ask Ubuntu

Now the quality is insane! And the sound volume is appropriate.

Thanks for sharing your solution for the audio. I am sure it will help many.

Anonymous wrote:

I already was using spacefm but no luck.

Once you can mount it with root spacefm (Open SpaceFM, in the top menu, File > Root Window), you can try mounting in the same way you did with normal spacefm.
Once mounted, you can update fstab and change the access to normal user.

What I do to add mounted devices to fstab is
1. Make a backup of /etc/fstab (incase something goes wrong)
2. Mount the device I want saved to fstab.
3. use make-fstab in terminal
sudo make-fstab
4. Edit fstab to give read/write permissions to user (if not set)
sudo geany /etc/fstab
For my w10 partition, it looks like this:`
# Added by make-fstab /dev/mmcblk0p4
UUID=3ADE8F4BDE8EFDFF /media/tablet/mmcblk0p4-mmc-HCG8e__0x1834a86 ntfs-3g noauto,noexec,uid=1000,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,users 0 0`

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Xecure. Reason: make-fstab info

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[Anonymous]

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anticapitalista wrote:

Can you access the drive via root user spacefm or rox-filer?

Yeah, using

sudo spacefm /dev/sda2

I can access sda2.it is mounted.

I wonder if I should change spacefm to always execute as root. Shall I do that?

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Xecure wrote:

Buzz59 wrote:

I did a search and this one worked: Ask Ubuntu

Now the quality is insane! And the sound volume is appropriate.

Thanks for sharing your solution for the audio. I am sure it will help many.

Buzz59 wrote:

I already was using spacefm but no luck.

Once you can mount it with root spacefm (Open SpaceFM, in the top menu, File > Root Window), you can try mounting in the same way you did with normal spacefm.
Once mounted, you can update fstab and change the access to normal user.

What I do to add mounted devices to fstab is
1. Make a backup of /etc/fstab (incase something goes wrong)
2. Mount the device I want saved to fstab.
3. use make-fstab in terminal
sudo make-fstab
4. Edit fstab to give read/write permissions to user (if not set)
sudo geany /etc/fstab
For my w10 partition, it looks like this:`
# Added by make-fstab /dev/mmcblk0p4
UUID=3ADE8F4BDE8EFDFF /media/tablet/mmcblk0p4-mmc-HCG8e__0x1834a86 ntfs-3g noauto,noexec,uid=1000,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,users 0 0`

Thanks for the information. Since I haven’t backed up my files on sda2 yet, I will try to make a backup of my files and move on to your tips and will let you know how it has gone so far.

[Moderator BobC]

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I’m no guru, but I mount my Win/10 drive in SpaceFM not by running SpaceFM as root, but by typing in the password to mount it when I want it mounted.

In SpaceFM
Devices
Settings
Device Handlers
Default
Then check the Run in Terminal option in the Mount area, and uncomment the line as shown in the screenshot and click Ok at the bottom to save it.
udisksctl mount -b %v -o '%o'

After that you should be able to click your Win/10 partition and you will be able to mount it.

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