MX-17 Beta 2 Feedback

[topcat]

In Post # 103 in this thread I posted how I could access files on my iphone7 using the new MX-iMountDevice app on MX-17b1 64bit running installed to a usb flash drive.

Peregrine, in Post # 89, tried this on MX-17b2 64 bit without success. She then tried it on MX-17b1 and it worked.

As per Jerry3904's request, I created a Live USB of MX-17b2 64 bit and booted it up and tried the MX-iMountDevice app and it worked the same as in b1 for me on my iphone7.

So in summary, MX17b1 and b2 work fine for me accessing my iphone7 using the new app MX-iMountDevice.
For peregrine, her iphone8 works in b1 but not in b2.

If I can provide any other info that would be helpful, let me know...

[Jerry3904]

Great, thanks. I have access to a 6 and 6S here in Minneapolis, and will test them later.

[Stevo]

Please add some popular themes to package manager like adapta and macos theme and like that add some popular themes in MX package installer so that it will be easy for us to install them. I think no other distro has this type of feature which will be very useful
Thanks..

We have heard that some of the included themes no longer work well in MX 17, so we may replace them on the ISO with popular themes such as adapta anyway. Any more suggestions?

[Stevo]

Using the Nvidia driver installer in an earlier test resulted in a failure to boot to a graphical environment.

Following Stevo's updating of the drivers, I can confirm they now work as expected.

Chris

Thanks, we still need testing of the newer 4.13.13 (4.13.0-1) kernel in testing--it has a couple advantages over the bpo one and would be better as the default.

[richb]

Installed the 4.13.13 (4.13.0-1) kernel. I do not see nay issues. I installed VB from MXPI without a problem. Let me know if there is something specific that I should test.

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System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.13.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.b2_x64 Horizon November 20, 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A serial: N/A
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: F2A68HM-H v: x.x serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends v: FB date: 04/22/2015
Battery    hidpp__0: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
CPU:       Quad core AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3100 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz 3: 1400 MHz 4: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.13.0-1-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
           version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri HDMI/DP Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-3 Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 driver: USB Audio
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-1-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 40:8d:5c:0d:62:1b
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 60:e3:27:08:b6:6c
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 820.2GB (9.8% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST3320820SCE size: 320.1GB

[Stevo]

The only differences I could really spot with the newer kernel is that I don't see that TSC and firmware error message when booting in Virtual Box. I don't have the hardware to test the extended amdgpu support, and all the driver builds should be the same as for the 4.13 bpo kernel. Just keep using it and make sure everything keeps working, I guess.

[entropyfoe]

Another successful beta 2 install. This one on my family room system used for streaming youtube, music, pictures etc.
The install from USB was fast.Everything working so far. This box has an on chip ati graphs, using whatever open-source selected automatically.
The install, all updated, fixed two nagging application problems I had.
1. pandora was not working, now it is under firefox 57, though noscript is not available yet, and that may have caused the problem (though I allowed all scripts, still did not play).
2. I have some family VHS I had transferred to DVD, and ripped with handbrake. On this machine only, the video was skewed, torn diagonally. Now the same file play perfectly in vlc.

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 inxi -F
System:    Host: X2 Kernel: 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.b2_x64 Horizon November 20, 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: A88XM-A/USB 3.1 v: Rev X.0x serial: N/A
           UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 0309 date: 03/04/2016
CPU:       Quad core AMD A10-7860K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 3590 MHz 2: 3590 MHz 3: 3590 MHz 4: 3590 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 )
           drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
           version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri HDMI/DP Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1560.3GB (26.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: SAMSUNG_HD501LJ size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD1002FAEX size: 1000.2GB
           ID-3: /dev/sda model: OCZ size: 60.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 4.4G (32%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: /home size: 15G used: 116M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 8.83GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 0.0C mobo: N/A gpu: -1.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 195 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 1745.6/6916.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43 

[Jerry3904]

Tested iDevice Mounter on B1 and B2--twice. Results identical for iPhone 6 and 6S

B1: both mounted successfully, folders available
B2: neither mounted, error message attached

[BitJam]

Brother network printer MFC-9320CW - the correct colour printer driver is found in the Printer Config program. Works fine.
Scanner function - again does not work OOTB as detailed in the MX Wiki here: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/scanners#Brother

/usr/lib/sane folder not created by default in the iso.

I followed the instructions in wiki to create said folder and the 6 symlinks, and confirm that the solution works for MX17 as well.

Is this something we can or should automate with the package installer?

[dolphin_oracle]

Brother network printer MFC-9320CW - the correct colour printer driver is found in the Printer Config program. Works fine.
Scanner function - again does not work OOTB as detailed in the MX Wiki here: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/scanners#Brother

/usr/lib/sane folder not created by default in the iso.

I followed the instructions in wiki to create said folder and the 6 symlinks, and confirm that the solution works for MX17 as well.

Is this something we can or should automate with the package installer?

Its a little different what you do depending on which brother driver, IIRC. Here is the info that asqwerth linked to, for reference. (its on the scanner side as she said).

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sudo mkdir /usr/lib/sane
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother3.so /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother3.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother3.so.1 /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother3.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother3.so.1.0.7 /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother3.so.1.0.7
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec3.so /usr/lib/libbrscandec3.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec3.so.1 /usr/lib/libbrscandec3.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec3.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libbrscandec3.so.1.0.0