[SOLVED] Trying to install antix 21 on a HP dv1000

[Member maybl8]

Looked thru some articles here didn’t answer my problem.
It starts the boot process from the DVD and after going to start the video it goes blank.
I have tried several boot options but can’t find the right one.
I know this system only has 500MB of ram and an 80GB HDD.
not sure on the video.

Any help would be appreciated.

• This topic was modified 1 year ago by maybl8.

[Member PPC]

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I have antiX 21 installed on one such laptop – its a great machine (great sound columns, great video), works great with antiX 21.
-Please make sure you are using antiX 21 32bits
-I booted from a Plop boot cd and from there I booted from a usb pen-drive with antiX
-At most tasks (mainly at video) it’s faster than my 64bits netbook, that’s some 6 years younger…

Note: My laptop is not standard because I had it fitted with 512mb more almost 10 years ago (it has 1 gb of RAM)

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[Member maybl8]

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Yeah I have the 32 bit . antX said that when I tried the 64bit.
What video choice did you have to make to get to see the screen on install?
I’ll try the PLOP idea

[Member maybl8]

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PLOP idea didn’t work for me.
It shows the usb but doesn’t boot with it.

[Member PPC]

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I don’t recall having made any particular choice about video when I booted antiX for the first time (from my plop boot cd). Perhaps that helped me, because when I boot from plop I don’t get the “usual” antiX boot menu – probably that helped out with any video problems the initial boot screen may have on this laptops…
Try this; boot from plop cd, wait for some seconds, plug the usb pen-drive, wait 5-10 seconds and then try to select the usb drive from plop’s menu…

[Moderator caprea]

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Instead of the plop cd you can also start the boot from the antiX DVD while your usb stick is plugged in.
Choose the from=usb option (in F4, if I remember right) to boot the DVD. The boot will start from DVD but continues with the usb stick.
It has to be the same version of antiX.

Which version did you download exactly ?

[Member maybl8]

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antiX-21_386-full

[Member calciumsodium]

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Hi,
You could trying booting into safe video mode. But the resolution won’t be as good as normal boot.

Another method that worked for me is at the boot menu, press F4 for options, then select i915_invert. Then boot.

Then I was able to boot from the DVD on my hp laptop.
I don’t know if it will work in your system. Perhaps you can try.

[Member srgilbert]

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One thing I found when installing on my DV5000 using the Plop cd was it couldn’t be a USB 3 thumb drive, but a USB 2 worked fine.

[Member maybl8]

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I was able to get it to install via cli-installer.
What I had to do is disable all the boot options using f4.
However I must have done something wrong on the grub install because once I rebooted I was at a grub rescue prompt.

[Member PPC]

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Try this: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/grub-installation-to-antix/#post-55820

[Member maybl8]

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I finally got it insalled.
Did F4 and turned acpi=off
and used safe mode install

here is the inxi info:

$ inxi -Fxxxr
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_386-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard 
  product: HP Pavilion dv1000 (EP344UA#ABA) v: Rev 1 
  serial: <superuser required> Chassis: Quanta type: 10 
  serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: Quanta model: 308F v: 46.11 serial: <superuser required> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.12 date: 09/12/2005 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan 
  rev: 8 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3391 
  Speed: 1696 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1696 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2592 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel,vesa 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting resolution: 1280x768 s-dpi: 104 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1e.2 chip-ID: 8086:266e 
  class-ID: 0401 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: 3000 
  bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8139 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:16:36:00:a2:4d 
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: ipw2200 v: 1.2.2kmprq port: 3000 
  bus-ID: 06:06.0 chip-ID: 8086:4220 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: eth1 state: up mac: 00:15:00:38:0c:a0 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 3.99 GiB (5.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK8025GAS size: 74.53 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: Z5PT7378S rev: 4A scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 72.06 GiB used: 3.96 GiB (5.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 27.5 MiB (3.6%) 
  priority: -1 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured? 
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 1569 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-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.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 135 Uptime: 16m wakeups: 0 Memory: 484.9 MiB 
  used: 395.6 MiB (81.6%) 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 
demo1@antix1:~
$ 

[Member PPC]

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Hi! I’m glad you managed to get antiX working – it’s the perfect fit for such good (although quite outdated device).
To better used antix with so little RAM I advise you to read on the forum posts about how to make the best us of so little RAM.
Tips:
-Multimedia: that laptop is great for playing multimedia – Xine Media Player even manages to play most HD video on it (it’s the “xine-ui” package, in the repository)
-For browsing: use browsers adapted for low resources consumption – Palemoon and Seamonkey are available on the Package Installer. Links2 is already provided in antiX full – it renders most web pages with text and static images (that don’t rely on Javascript), although with some formatting problems, but most webpages are completely readable (press “g” to get a bar to enter a web address or click the toolbar on top for more options, Press “s” to get to the Bookmarks window).
For better modern web compatibility, try “surf browser” (it’s the “surf” package in the repository)- it’s very basic . without any patches – it only displays a single window with a webpage drawn inside it (press CTRL + g to enter a web address to go to)- that’s it, no bookmarks, history, tabs, password management, etc… The only downside: surf is slowwww and prone to crashing when running on devices with low RAM (I speak from experience). If you are into experimenting, you can try this surf build- https://github.com/mrdotx/surf – it includes the option to use tabs, and bookmarks (but I have not figured out how to use bookmarks) and some more patches
-To watch streaming video – don’t use a browser, use smtube or ytfzf (read on the recent thread about ytfzf for ways to get the most of this little gem)
-E-mail – don’t use webmail – try using Claws (included in antiX) or Seamonkey e-mail client (that is compatible with g-mail)
-For office work – I’m unsure if you’ll be able to run LibreOffice with large documents – but it should run fine, even in 512mb, as long as you don’t try to multi task. For word processing the cli application “wordgrinder” is great – handles great in low RAM and can import and export .odt documents.
-For File Management – make zzzfm your default File manager – it’s included in antiX.
-If you want a more modern look and feel install an enable the ft10-transformation package – it even adds some features to zzzfm, like a Trash Can, easy way to mount (preconfigured) cloud drives, mount network shares, etc…

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HI PPC,
would you please post the ram type voltage and speed needed for the DV1000. I found schematics but no technical specification.
when maybl8 knows what to search for the biggest performance boost would definitely be to max out ram. Second speed boost, fit SSD.

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[Member maybl8]

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PPC.
Thanks for all of those suggestions. I will definitely look into those.
What I am going to do with this laptop is get it working the best I can for as little money as possible and then give it to a person that needs a computer but can’t afford one. We have a facebook group here that donates items for free to people who need them.

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