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Salix Live Xfce 15.0 RC2

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Salix Live Xfce 15.0 RC2

Changes are the pt_PT and pt_BR translations in SLI.

You can download the iso images using the following links.

Salix Live Xfce 15.0 rc2 (32-bit, i686)
(size: 1699 MB, md5: 657f42cc26f1648854da5edcda99980f)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/ ... o/download

Salix64 Live Xfce 15.0 rc2 (64-bit, x86_64)
(size: 1693 MB, md5: 65b12f14560e5a5099088de1d545c780)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/ ... o/download
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Thanks :D
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Doing a real installation 64 or 32 bit in external usb stick, the user can just create a msdos partition table and one linux partition and a swap partition. It will work in both cases since it use the usb to boot everywhere. In this case only grub for i386-pc will installed since there is no efi partition.
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Re: Salix Live Xfce 15.0 RC2

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Hi, some comments from me.

For sli.desktop, you can use the "live-installer" icon.

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Icon=live-installer
For instonusb you can you the "usbimager" icon.

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Icon=usbimager
Also, for instonusb, the menu entry reads "iso Live usb installer". That should probably be "Live USB Installer", just as the window title.

For the grub update utility, I think it should be better to remove the need for xterm and just set

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Terminal=true
in the grub-update.desktop file. Similarly for grubsetup.desktop (and respective *-kde.desktop of course).

If you remove those, is there a need for having xterm in the iso?

And you can change the icons with the ones here: https://people.salixos.org/gapan/grub-icons/

However, for both grubsetup and grubinstall tools, it is not immediately obvious what they are for. If you launch them from a live session, it only just shows a terminal window which disappears. Since they are both terminal tools, I'm not really sure there should be any menu entries for them.

On a more serious issue, there is something wrong with flatpak. I always get a "Corrupted file object" error. That's not normal. I was guessing that since flatpak needs to download several hundreds of MBs of software, the live system becomes full and there is simply no room in RAM to do that. But then I did an installation and I got the same issue, so it's not that? I tried again with the same flatpak and then it worked. I'm not sure what happens. I never saw these problems with an installation from the standard iso.

I did an installation in a VM. After the installation finished, I tried booting into the installed system. Grub loaded, but after that I got nothing. It was a blank screen, no error messages or anything else. That was for the first time only though. In all the next tries, it booted with no problems.

There is an issue with the grub text too. It is grey text on light blue background, which doesn't work well at all. I find it very hard to read. I think it would be better if you used the dark background for grub instead.

Grub also shows a "Slackware 15.0 x86_64" boot entry, although slackware is not installede in the VM. It's only one partition with salix. This shows up after running the grub-update tool. I don't think it should.
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Re: Salix Live Xfce 15.0 RC2

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gapan wrote: 11. Oct 2022, 17:44 Hi, some comments from me.

For sli.desktop, you can use the "live-installer" icon.
Done.
For instonusb you can you the "usbimager" icon.
Done.
Also, for instonusb, the menu entry reads "iso Live usb installer". That should probably be "Live USB Installer", just as the window title.
Done
For the grub update utility, I think it should be better to remove the need for xterm and just set

Code: Select all

Terminal=true
in the grub-update.desktop file. Similarly for grubsetup.desktop (and respective *-kde.desktop of course).

If you remove those, is there a need for having xterm in the iso?

And you can change the icons with the ones here: https://people.salixos.org/gapan/grub-icons/
However, for both grubsetup and grubinstall tools, it is not immediately obvious what they are for. If you launch them from a live session, it only just shows a terminal window which disappears. Since they are both terminal tools, I'm not really sure there should be any menu entries for them.
All .desktop files removed. xterm removed from iso. There are no menu entries now. The package grub-scripts just add salix.png, update-grub and grubconfig scripts.
There is an issue with the grub text too. It is grey text on light blue background, which doesn't work well at all. I find it very hard to read. I think it would be better if you used the dark background for grub instead.
salix-night.png is used for backgroung now renamed to salix.png.
salix.png is a copy of /usr/share/backgrounds/salix-night.png
Just tell me if /usr/share/backgrounds/salix-night.png is the right background.
On a more serious issue, there is something wrong with flatpak. I always get a "Corrupted file object" error. That's not normal. I was guessing that since flatpak needs to download several hundreds of MBs of software, the live system becomes full and there is simply no room in RAM to do that. But then I did an installation and I got the same issue, so it's not that? I tried again with the same flatpak and then it worked. I'm not sure what happens. I never saw these problems with an installation from the standard iso.
I do not know about this. flatpak and flatpak-tools packages included in iso. I also installed in vmware and after install with flatpak PysolFC, running from terminal
flatpak run io.sourceforge.pysolfc.PySolFC i get "error: ldconfig failed, exit status 33792" I do not know if it is the laptop i use. But i never manage to run flatpak apps.
I do not do anything in flatpak just included the package in iso as all other packages.
I cannot solve this problem.
I did an installation in a VM. After the installation finished, I tried booting into the installed system. Grub loaded, but after that I got nothing. It was a blank screen, no error messages or anything else. That was for the first time only though. In all the next tries, it booted with no problems.
I never had such a problem installing in vmware and in usb.
Grub also shows a "Slackware 15.0 x86_64" boot entry, although slackware is not installede in the VM. It's only one partition with salix. This shows up after running the grub-update tool. I don't think it should.
This is because of /etc/slackware-version. Grub read this file and since it is slackware-15.0 add this in grub menus also.
I set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true so only salix appeared in menus.

Look how menus are after installation and run update-grub.
grub1
grub2

I have created RC3 ISO and make an installation in vmware and tested all above.

Edit: I also did a real installation to usb stick and all were fine.
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I have ordered two of these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363499084682
:mrgreen:
that is Sandisk CZ71 32 GB memory sticks. Twenty euros including postage.
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mimosa wrote: 13. Oct 2022, 10:43 I have ordered two of these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363499084682
:mrgreen:
that is Sandisk CZ71 32 GB memory sticks. Twenty euros including postage.
Too expensive in Greece in e-shop they send it without postage. 5.75 € each.
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Re: Salix Live Xfce 15.0 RC2

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For me the game is over with salix64 15.0

[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x28, date = 2019-11-12
....bla bla bla....
[ 0.000000] DMI: ASUS All Series/H81M-A, BIOS 2203 05/26/2015
....bla bla bla....
[ 0.017331] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3220 @ 3.00GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x3c, stepping: 0x3)
....bla bla bla....
[ 0.361732] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000187F (\PMIO) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361735] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000187F (\PMIO) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361738] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 0.361740] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C40-0x0000000000001C4F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001FFF (\GPR) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361742] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C40-0x0000000000001C4F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001FFF (\GPR) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361744] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 0.361744] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C30-0x0000000000001C3F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C3F (\GPRL) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361746] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C30-0x0000000000001C3F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C3F (\GPRL) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361747] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C30-0x0000000000001C3F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001FFF (\GPR) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361749] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C30-0x0000000000001C3F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001FFF (\GPR) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361751] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 0.361751] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C2F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C3F (\GPRL) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361753] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C2F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C3F (\GPRL) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361754] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C2F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001FFF (\GPR) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361756] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001C2F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001C00-0x0000000000001FFF (\GPR) (20170728/utaddress-247)
[ 0.361757] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 0.361758] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich

I used this good tutorial to load the microcode.
https://firasuke.github.io/DOTSLASHLINU ... ux-kernel/

it is necessary to let the new CPUs use their functionality.

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but I am very happy with salix64 14.2 and a lot of salix 15.0 build its compatible.

PS:it was very hard to find information, red Hat enterprise linux 9.0 (kernel 5.14) certified only intel gen12 and Suse linux enterprise just says that you have to choose the version according to the cpu but without any info.
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SalixManiac wrote: 14. Oct 2022, 20:25 I used this good tutorial to load the microcode.
https://firasuke.github.io/DOTSLASHLINU ... ux-kernel/
Dated 30/04/2017, so more than 5 years ago. Is it still relevant with recent kernels?
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Problem solved with acpi_enforce_resources=no in the grub settings :D :D :D

[ 0.186595] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20201103 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 0.187505] ACPI: video: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 0.187649] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input2
[ 0.189008] brd: module loaded
[ 0.189505] loop: module loaded
[ 0.189610] st: Version 20160209, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
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