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[Member souibes]

Hi my name is Hamid
I’ll try to be quick
I installed antix core 32 bits on virtualbox then installed xorg,xfce4 and lightdm
all went ok.
Went through the same process on real hardware but can’t get the display
Is there a driver I’m missing that was installed on virtualbox.
On antix core can’t get the power privilege as to shut down or reboot
option (virtualbox nor on real hardware)
I’m on Intel core 2 E6420 CPU
I would be happy if someone that went through the same issue could help.
Thanks in advance for a reply

[Member seaken64]

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The video hardware is likely the culprit on the real hardware. Can you try launching in “safe video” or “failsafe” mode?

Are you getting to a console prompt? Can you run “inxi -Fxz” and share the results here?

You could also try a LiveUSB using the Base version, just for testing your hardware. Once you know how to get the hardware working you can go back to the Core version and work up to the XFCE desktop.

Seaken64

[Member souibes]

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Thanks Seaken for the quick reply.
The video hardware was my first thought, the only thing is do i have to configure things through command line or the process
is automatic when (apt get install) installs the required video driver
For base version i had no issue as xorg if I’m not mistaken is already installed with the adequate video hardware at the installation
process

[Moderator caprea]

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Hi Hamid, it looks like your processor has no integrated graphics. So there must be an additional graphics card in the PC.

souibes wrote:

I’m on Intel core 2 E6420 CPU

If it is a nvidia card the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau must be installed, if it is an amd-card the xserver-xorg-video-radeon must be installed. But these are only two examples of some possibilities. So the best thing you can do is to find out which card is in the PC. Like Seaken64 wrote inxi -Fxz from terminal should give you all information.

[Member Xecure]

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souibes wrote:

Went through the same process on real hardware but can’t get the display

If you are not sure, install all of xorg (it is bloat, but better bloat than fail)
sudo apt install xorg

souibes wrote:

On antix core can’t get the power privilege as to shut down or reboot
option (virtualbox nor on real hardware)

Reason: lightdm is expecting systemd. The fix is easy (for both) edit /etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter with your preferred text editor (root privileges). Change
session optional pam_systemd.so
to
session optional pam_elogind.so

Then reboot.
If it still doesn’t work, you may need to install policykit-1 and/or pm-utils, but hopefully not.

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

[Member souibes]

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Hi guys and thank you for your help.
I finally did it and i am on antix core xfce
Still have the notification zone that is not displaying
all the icons like network but all went OK.
I uploaded a screenshot from boot on idle I’m on less than
200MB and with Firefox running 460MB that’s not bad at all.
Have a good day

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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There are many optional plugins for Xfce that you can install, and once installed you can also configure where you want to put them within a taskbar and then there are choices for what to display.

xfce4-systemload-plugin is one plugin. There are many different ones.

sudo apt list xfce4-*-plugin lists all of the possibilities.

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