Hi antiX on a 2009 iMac

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Greetings – antiX installed and looking neat.

$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.7 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac9,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 13 v: Mac-F2218EC8 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F2218EC8 serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple 
  v: IM91.88Z.008D.B08.0904271717 date: 04/27/09 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E8135 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L2: 6 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 10613 
  Speed: 2552 MHz min/max: 1596/2660 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2552 2: 1909 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA C79 [GeForce 9400] vendor: Apple iMac 9 1 driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0867 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Apple Built-in iSight type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3 
  chip-ID: 05ac:8502 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVAC v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP79 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:08.0 chip-ID: 10de:0ac0 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP79 Ethernet driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: 21e0 
  bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 10de:0ab0 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN 
  vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl v: kernel port: 1000 
  bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:432b class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Apple Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR HCI type: USB driver: btusb 
  v: 0.8 bus-ID: 4-1.1:3 chip-ID: 05ac:8215 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: running 
  rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 4.55 GiB (1.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HDT721032SLA380 size: 298.09 GiB 
  speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A36A scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 289.51 GiB used: 4.55 GiB (1.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 57.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1195 
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 1577 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 156 Uptime: 14m wakeups: 1 Memory: 1.69 GiB 
  used: 722.5 MiB (41.8%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm 
  inxi: 3.3.06

• This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by Articules. Reason: code things
• This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by Articules.

Articules
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Nice! Show us a screenshot, if you’d like.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/antix-screenys-general/page/25/

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[Member madibi]

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good job! Bravo!
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[Member Articules]

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It looks like this iMac might be one of those with the gpu/cpu cooling compromise?
I ran inxi -Fxxxrz a few minutes later and the temperature had increased from 57C to 63C
Was there some detail about to handle a hot running iMac?

• This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by Articules. Reason: added gpu ambiguity (in my mind) whether it is a cpu/gpu thing

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Some roughly estimated timings running on a physical device rather than a virtual one.
All timings in seconds
14 welcome to GRUB!
17 splash screen with install options
22 echo of install happenings (seems based on timeout timings at 5 seconds?)
61 login user/password screen
66 desktop settles down
In its previous lives this computer rarely seemed to match that at all

Articules
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Articules wrote:

I ran inxi -Fxxxrz a few minutes later and the temperature had increased from 57C to 63C
Was there some detail about to handle a hot running iMac?

When I had an Imac 12.2 (from2011) I had not temp issues at all
Instead with older Mac(s), from 2007 and 2008 I had a lot of problems.

You can try macfanctld that is tailormade for Macbook Pro, on that you should fine tune the speed of the fans.
On other Macs I usually use Psensor

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Edit:
As far as GPU temp is concerned, please take into consideration to install the Nvidia driver

• This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by madibi.

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