Hello! New antiX user here

[Member MX372]

Hello all,

New antiX user here, just installed 17.1 32 bit on my ancient Acer Aspire One netbook, sporting an Atom 1.33ghz CPU and a whopping 2gb of RAM. Seems to run pretty well so far.

Looking for some advice on getting Fn keys working, for screen brightness, volume, etc.

I look forward to experimenting with antiX on this netbook to see how things go; my plan is to use this as a testing and learning system to get more familiar with Linux and some coding, likely starting with python. Open to suggestions too.

Thanks!

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Been awhile since I played with a ZG5. Howdy and Welcome. How about a

inxi -Fxzr

to give members here a idea on what you are running better.

As far as hot keys go? Back when I ran AntiX 8.5 on my AA01.

I think I needed

acpi and acpi-tools installed via synaptic package manager after 1st doing a reload in synaptic package manager to update the packages and libraries inside to current versions. Before installing acpi and acpi-tools.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Acer/AspireOne

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[Member MX372]

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Output of inxi -Fxzr:

System:
  Host: AspireOne Kernel: 4.9.87-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17.1_386-full Heather Heyer 17 March 2018 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Kvm System: Acer product: AO751h v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Acer model: JV11-ML serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 0.3204 date: 05/12/2009 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 17.2 Wh condition: 39.9/48.8 Wh (82%) model: SONY UM09A41 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom Z520 bits: 32 type: MT arch: Bonnell rev: 2 
  L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 5320 
  Speed: 1333 MHz min/max: 800/1333 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1333 2: 1333 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel System Hub Graphics driver: gma500 v: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  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: Intel System Hub HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.87-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
  v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k 
  v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 21.30 GiB (9.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda model: SPCC Solid State Disk size: 223.57 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 217.06 GiB used: 21.30 GiB (9.8%) 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: 61.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/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: 141 Uptime: 52m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 474.8 MiB (23.7%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.24 

Working on installing acpi-tools (acpi was already installed in the base antiX install). Will try the Fn keys again after installation of the tools, and (I suspect) editing of some config file(s) to get them to work properly. Thanks for the link!

[Member MX372]

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UPDATE: regarding Fn keys not working, I (partially) solved this problem by adding “acpi_osi=” to /etc/default/grub in the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=” ”

This made most of the function keys work on the laptop (btw, its a ZG3/a0751h model). Tested to work are the: F11(numlock) and embedded numpad, home/end, screen brightness, F12(scroll lock), F4(sleep), F6(screen blank), F7(touchpad lock), F8(mute/unmute). Still no volume up/down working as far as I can tell. Also, not tested but possibly working: F3(bluetooth on/off) and F5(external video out toggle). Also tested and not working (but I don’t really care about these): F1(power options), F2(system properties).

Strange thing is that using acpi_listen generates an acpi code for the volume up/down keypresses, but nothing happens. Also, some of the other Fn key presses that work do not generate an acpi code. Keep in mind I’m basically learning this by trial and error (Google-Fu, baby!), so I may just not have stumbled upon the right information yet to solve this. I have not conducted extensive research/testing at this point to solve this issue; maybe 1-2 hours at most so far.

Anyway, liking antiX so far, it’s relatively snappy on this dinosaur – there’s only so much a 32-bit single-core processor can do! We’ll see what happens as I start using applications.

[Member MX372]

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Can anyone tell me what antiX uses for control of the Fn key bindings? What application or daemon controls what happens when pressing the Fn key plus another key?

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Did you activate the hotkeys for the volume
by right-clicking on the volumeicon in the taskbar, then preferences ?

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