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[Member bitbender]

using antix since a year and are very satisfied with, so saying big Thank You for that fine work!

I damaged unrecoverable my old installation (by experimenting too harmfull, obviously) and installed the antix 19.1 beta
distro now. Also followed the guide convert antix into a xfce4-distro by manyroads.

Everything went fine, but then updated the kernel to version 5.11.1, rebooted and now X does’nt start anymore.
can someone tell me please, how to let the new kernel know, that the NVidia driver is always installed?

[Member Xecure]

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Hi, bitbender

bitbender wrote:

Everything went fine, but then updated the kernel to version 5.11.1, rebooted and now X does’nt start anymore.

For now, choose an older kernel from grub to load your system and wait for someone more knowledgeble to help out, if fixing this is possible.
I experienced the same with an old laptop. I opted to go back to a previous kernel (4.19). It contains all recent security patches, so you will lose nothing. If someone can help you out with this, then you won’t need to go back to an “old” kernel.

When you had 17.4, were you also using the 5.xx kernel?

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[Member bitbender]

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Thanks for your info, Xecure.

When you had 17.4, were you also using the 5.xx kernel?

No, I ran the 4.8{1,2 ?} kernel, sorry did not remember the right version.
My problem is that I dont know how to install/create a new nvidia kernel moduke for the new kernel.
There is a command like “add module kernel version” but I can’t recall the name. That worked on the old (now gone)
system.
Or: Do you believe or even know that this a kernel 5.11.1 issue?
However, I will downgrade to 4.19, as you mentioned and will report later.

Thanks for replying.

[Member Xecure]

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bitbender wrote:

My problem is that I dont know how to install/create a new nvidia kernel moduke for the new kernel.

Ok. I think you mean rebuilding DKMS modules.
Automatic way:
sudo dkms autoinstall
If that doesn’t work, you will have to manually rebuild. I haven’t done this myself before, and there are too many “solutions”. See here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/53364/command-to-rebuild-all-dkms-modules-for-all-installed-kernels/174017

EDIT: I found an antiX-proven way to rebuild dkms modules in the forum. I tracked down the source to a dolphin_oracle video
Enter your antiX system using an previous working kernel, go into root terminal and execute:
for i in $(dpkg-query -l |grep "\-dkms" |awk '{print $2'}); do dpkg-reconfigure $i |tee -a /var/log/rebuild-dkms.log; done
Other forum posts have confirmed this to work.

Hopefully this will help you.

bitbender wrote:

Or: Do you believe or even know that this a kernel 5.11.1 issue?

No, as some others report it working. This for me is old hardware problem. That is why anticapitalista gives kernel 4.9 as default for next antiX version. Some old machines don’t like the new kernels.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Xecure. Reason: Corrected something
• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Xecure. Reason: Added dolphin_oracle script

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Inxi report should be included in this thread to get the attention it deserves.

inxi -v8

example:

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -v8 -z
System:
  Host: biker Kernel: 4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp 
  root=UUID=ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d ro vga=791 quiet 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 info: icewmtray dm: SLiM 1.3.4 
  Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Google product: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
  type: 3 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Google model: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: coreboot 
  v: 4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty date: 09/04/2014 
Battery:
  ID-1: BATX charge: 29.9 Wh condition: 29.9/37.0 Wh (81%) volts: 17.2/14.8 
  model: SANYO AL12B32 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.79 GiB used: 945.1 MiB (24.3%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron 1007U bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge 
  family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 17 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  bogomips: 5985 
  Speed: 1220 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 959 2: 938 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept erms est flexpriority fpu 
  fsgsbase fxsr ht lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good 
  sep smep ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc 
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0156 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 compat-v: 3.0 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn 
  driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 0400 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0034 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
  Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: 0400 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 14e4:16b5 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 14.91 GiB used: 6.80 GiB (45.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SSD U100 16GB size: 14.91 GiB block size: 
  physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 6.14 
  scheme: MBR 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 14.91 GiB size: 14.62 GiB (98.01%) used: 6.80 GiB (46.5%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda1 label: rootantiX uuid: ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Hub: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
  Device-1: 1-1.1:5 info: Foxconn / Hon Hai type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0489:e04e 
  Device-2: 1-1.3:4 info: Chicony type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 04f2:b336 
  Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Hub: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/MX.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mxlinux.unc.edu.ar/mxlinux/antix/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
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 
  1: cpu: 31.1% command: chrome pid: 14671 mem: 160.1 MiB (4.1%) 
  2: cpu: 4.7% command: chrome pid: 3194 mem: 113.0 MiB (2.9%) 
  3: cpu: 4.3% command: xorg pid: 2426 mem: 49.4 MiB (1.2%) 
  4: cpu: 4.1% command: google-chrome-stable pid: 3155 mem: 275.1 MiB (7.0%) 
  5: cpu: 1.3% command: chrome pid: 3358 mem: 170.2 MiB (4.3%) 
  Memory top: 5 
  1: mem: 275.1 MiB (7.0%) command: google-chrome-stable pid: 3155 cpu: 4.1% 
  2: mem: 170.2 MiB (4.3%) command: chrome pid: 3358 cpu: 1.3% 
  3: mem: 160.1 MiB (4.1%) command: chrome pid: 14671 cpu: 31.1% 
  4: mem: 133.8 MiB (3.4%) command: chrome pid: 3263 cpu: 0.0% 
  5: mem: 123.3 MiB (3.1%) command: chrome pid: 3199 cpu: 1.1% 
Info:
  Processes: 146 Uptime: 3h 33m Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
  Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 alt: 6 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 running in: lxterminal 
  inxi: 3.0.34 
harry@biker:~

I won’t even run 5 kernel on this chromebook. Makes no sense to run one on here.
2nd edit: Forgot my manners. Howdy and Welcome.

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• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by rokytnji.

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[Member bitbender]

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@Xecure:
Thank You very mutch for your efforts, sir!

Nothing went ok. tried
sudo dkms autoinstall
the one-liner from the Ubuntu-site and also the python script provided there – nothing worked well.

I’am not a developer at all, but looking through the logs from what dkms complained, it seemed to me that there
is some script missing in the deepness of directories to make(1) the module for the kernel 5.1.11 .

So, I were so mutch frustrated, that I installed kernel 4.19.0-5 and everything goes well.

I will try your provided antix-solution on another experimental-installation of antix later and will report here.

@rokytnji:
You are right, I forgot the inxi-info, sorry.

[Member VW]

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You already told us what is wrong. You need to reinstall your NVIDIA driver each and every time you update the kernel.

Log in as root (at the command line), Enter ‘smxi’ and follow the instructions for ‘Graphics’.

HTH

Guide to smxi

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by VW. Reason: Added link to smxi FAQ

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