Gigabyte Brix BACE-3150 and Mint KDE. The Brix BACE-3150 just accepted Mint KDE and everything worked. The only drivers I had to install were for my collection of Brother printers. Fortunately Brother has a special section for Linux drivers on their web site which is kept up to date. Mint KDE just found everything else.

This post was written by on March 12, 2017 Posted Under:, Intro These are my jots as I installed Linux Mint 18.1 on a Gigabyte GB-BACE-3160 Compact PC with a 240 GB SSD hard disk and 8 GB RAM, for the purpose of driving my TV in the living room. Not all issues are solved yet. General notes • Use ssh -X. It allows X-windows to open on the calling computer.

• Uname: Linux tv 4.4.0-53-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 15:59:10 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux • Mint 18.1 (“Serena”) is a derivative of Ubuntu 16.04 (“Xenial”). This can be verified by looking at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list. • There are a lot of intel_* utilities to look at installed. • Unsolved problem: System boots up with kswap0 taking 100% CPU, and no desktop comes up. The problem seems to be that since there’s no swap on my system + the “cinnamon” process running at 100%, requesting more and more memory until it runs out, and kswap0 tries to fix it. WORKAROUND: Kill, as root, the “mdm” process, father of the X window tree.

This restarts cinnamon. Bad omen: cinnamon gets stuck sometimes and sometimes not, even in subsequent overlayfs mode bootups (so all files in the filesystems were the same initially).

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There is nothing that stands out in.xsession-errors on a failed boot vs. A successful one (from cold or after killing mdm). • There’s still an issue with mouse pointer traces (in particular going on and off the shutdown confirmation dialog box), and it seems to be an HDMI-only issue. The disappearing and sluggish mouse seems to have been solved by disabling the splash on Grub (which plays with the DRM). • Desktop background image: $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri '/usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg' Installation flow • BIOS is invoked by pressing the “Delete” button (constantly) during powerup • Changed the OS in the BIOS to Linux (not clear why it matters) • Always power on when AC power is applied: In the BIOS menu, Chipset > Restore AC Power Loss set to “Power on”. • Pushed USB stick with Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon.

Booted with no issues • Installed ssh for remote access (ssh daemon starts immediately after installation) # apt-get update # apt-get install ssh # passwd mint • Set partition table manually: First partition for boot, 250 MB. Second partition for LVM, 120 GB.

Leaving half the disk unpartitioned. LVM can easily use disk space from another partition in the future, if that’s needed.