Download BluestarLinux for free. Bluestar Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution, built with an understanding that people want and need a solid Operating System that provides a breadth of functionality and ease of use without sacrificing aesthetics. Bluestar is offered in three edtions - desktop, deskpro and developer - each tailored to address the needs of a variety of Linux users. The 64-bit Kodi version for Windows is now feature complete and on same level as 32-bit. From now on the 32-bit installer will include a warning to ask you to install the 64-bit instead. This upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version is seamless and you just need to install on top of the old version. Below is the original article. So, I decided to install antiX-17.4 64-bit and try to install the legacy nvidia drivers. I did get the legacy nvidia drivers installed in antiX-17.4. But when I tried to install Kodi 18.9 I could not find it in any repos for antiX-17. I downloaded a.deb file for Kodi 18.5 from the MX-17 repo. After the install it only started up 17.6. Improved support for iOS on ARM64 (64-bit iOS) 1.16 OS X Specific Added support for compiling Kodi with Xcode 8 IDE for OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) and macOS 10.12 (Sierra) Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support for (Mac) OS X. 1.17 Windows Specific Added support to build Kodi for Windows 64 / Windows for Intel 64-bit (x86-64). Kodi 1/15/18 Night - 188775 Kodi 17.3 + FTG Wizard (Firestick) – 696896 Kodi 17.4 64-bit – 055051 Kodi 17.4 64-bit - 913985 Kodi 17.4 ARM 64 – 143596 kodi 17.5 (Firesticks) – 046265 Kodi 17.5 with Fixed PIL for the Portal – 357947 Kodi 17.6 – 626133 Kodi 17.6 32 Bit APK Android – 296283 Kodi 17.6 64 Bit APK Android – 296282.

1. Kodi 17.4 64 Bit Windows 10
2. Kodi 18.4 64 Bit Download
3. Kodi 17.4 64 Bit Download

• This topic has 37 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated Apr 11-2:35 pm by Brian Masinick.

Kodi 17.4 64 Bit Windows 10

• My antiX “fu” is not strong enough for antiX-19 on an old computer

  I was excited to try my hand at installing antiX-19 64-bit on an old computer I found at the recycling center. I had already setup MX-19 32-bit and antiX-19 32-bit on an old Pentium 4 with 3 GB of RAM with integrated Intel video. This “new” old computer was one step above my best P4 and I wanted to use antiX as it’s main OS.

  This computer has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ dual core processor. It supports 64-bit, whereas my best P4 only supports 32-bit. It had 2 GB RAM but one of the RAM chips was bad. I moved one of the chips from the P4 over to get it back to 2GB, leaving the P4 with 3GB. This Athlon system is a Dell Dimension E521 and has integrated graphics and a few PCIe slots and the 16-bit PCIe slot has a GeForce 6600 NV43 class GPU.

  I booted up a newly created LiveUSB with antiX-19.3 64-bit. It booted up good and I proceeded to partition the 250GB SATA hard drive I put in it. I created a / partition and a separate /home partition and another data partition and a swap partition, then I proceeded to install antiX-19 64-bit.

  For the most part antiX-19 installed fine and is running well on this old machine. However, I soon found out that my antiX fu is not strong. My intent for this “new” old machine was to replace my old P4 HTPC and attach it to one of my 32” LCD TV’s in my lab, where I often watch more than one sports program at a time, such as now during March Madness where I can watch four games at once. My old P4 HTPC has not been used for this for a few years and was no longer connected to a big screen.

  This “new” old machine had enough power to run Kodi and ESPN or NBC Sports, etc. I figured if my old P4 could run Kodi then this new machine could do it better. And I wanted it to be a new project focusing on using antiX. I had MX running on the old P4 and I knew I could set MX up but I wanted to use antiX since I knew it would be more of a challenge.

  I ran into three or four problems using this machine, and a couple of them have still not been resolved. My antiX fu has been revealed as weak. But thanks to the forum it is getting a little stronger with this project.

  First, I could not understand how to properly set up multiple screens in antiX. I did know that I could use arandr to set the resolutions and orientation of the screens. I had done this many times before with single screens. With a little bit of googling I was able to set the screens in my startup files. I use IceWM so I used the IceWM startup file for my xrandr statement. It works. But the login manager and the wallpapers were not set correctly.

  I could not see the login entry dialog at all. It seems it was placed somewhere in the middle of my multi monitor setup and was invisible. I could type my username and password blindly and get into my desktop. But how do I get the login screen to show? I got some help in the forum and found out I had to edit a configuration file to orient the slim login to a place where it would show up. That config file is at /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/slim.theme. I edited the “input_panel_x” and “input_panel_y” to move the sign in box to the upper left of the screen. [Note: the actual file to edit is dependent on the choice of theme. For instance: /usr/share/slim/themes/DarkCity/slim.theme]

  Next, I could not figure out how to set two different wallpapers, each on one of the two monitors. There is a nice wallpaper tool in antiX and it works great for a single wall paper. But I wanted two wallpapers. As it turned out antiX does not support this out of the box. I had to learn how to use “feh” to set up the two wallpapers and I had to turn off any default “desktop manager” so as to not interfere with feh. Again, the forum members showed me that I had to turn off SpaceFM as the desktop manager and use only the “icewm” desktop. Once I did this I had my two separate wallpapers.

  But a side effect of running “icewm” was that ROX became the default file manager. I had to edit another config file to allow SpaceFM as my default file manager. I ended up editing the file ~/.desktop-session/desktop-defaults.conf and changed OVERRIDE_SESSION_FM= to “true”. Then I edited /usr/share/applications/antix/desktop-defaults-follow-fm.desktop and commented out the “Exec=” line and added my own “Exec=spacefm” line. I restarted the session and now when I click on the “File Manager” item I get SpaceFM.

  Before I changed to “icewm” the Conky was not fully transparent. The conky was readable but the background was from another part of the image. Once I switched to “icewm” only and was using “feh” as my wallpaper manager, the Conky was now properly transparent. Ahh, my antiX fu was improving – but still not strong.

  Here’s the outline of steps needed to set two wallpapers, one each on two monitors, and correct the Conky transparency at the same time:
  1. Switch your desktop away from “space” or “ROX” (In my case I chose “icewm”. I was using space-icewm). Space and ROX desktop managers conflict with the “feh” program that is used to set the multiple wallpapers. See below.
  2. Comment out the line in /usr/local/bin/desktop-session that invokes the “desktop-session-wallpaper” script.
  3. Run feh –bg-fill /path/to/wallpaper#1 /path/to/wallpaper#2. This will create a ~/.fehbg file.
  4. Add ~/.fehbg & to your desktop startup file. I used ~/.icewm/startup

  So, now my antiX fu is good enough to setup multiple monitors on antiX-19. But things did not go well when I tried to setup Kodi.

  When I installed Kodi 18.9 from the Debian Multimedia repo and started it up the system crashed. It completely locked up with a black screen and I had to power down. When I restarted I had to repair the file system before I could boot. I used my Live USB and scanned and repaired the file system then rebooted again into antiX-19. I purged Kodi-18.9 and reinstalled Kodi-17.6 from the default repos. Kodi 17.6 works. But I wanted to have Kodi-18.9. Time for some stronger antiX fu. I gave it a try but my antiX fu did not turn out to be strong enough.

  I am assuming that Kodi 18 may not crash if I could install the proprietary nvidia drivers for my GPU. I soon learned that antiX 19, being based on Buster, would not support the legacy nvidia driver I needed. I did some reading and found out that the drivers are supported in Stretch. So, I decided to install antiX-17.4 64-bit and try to install the legacy nvidia drivers.

  I did get the legacy nvidia drivers installed in antiX-17.4. But when I tried to install Kodi 18.9 I could not find it in any repos for antiX-17. I downloaded a .deb file for Kodi 18.5 from the MX-17 repo. After the install it only started up 17.6. I purged Kodi again and tried to install Kodi 18.5 by adding the MX-17 testrepo to my source file. But it won’t install and gives me a report that it is missing dependencies.

  As of now, I have been unsuccessful in getting Kodi 18 to work in antiX-17 or antiX-19. Kodi 17.6 is working. I am hopeful that I may yet learn how to install Kodi 18 and fix the dependencies. But for now, my antiX fu is not strong.

  seaken64

  • This topic was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by seaken64.
  • This topic was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by seaken64.
  Up

  0

  Nice essay, Seaken64!
  But take heart. It looks like you already jumped many hurdles!

  (Unfortunately, I don’t think I can help with the final one; I don’t have experience with kodi.)

  Up

  0

  Interestingly, I recently dug out my last “living” non-laptop computer – an old Athlon XP, single core, 2002 vintage.

  My project is similar to yours in that it is being set up to a TV. This computer was our main computer for some years long ago. It had only 256 MB RAM, but I figured that should be enough to boot & run dosbox. On the TV. I thought that would be fun.

  Well, I also dug out some old pieces and parts left over from various dearly departed PCs. And my, my, my! I was able to reuse 3 512 MB RAM cards – replacing the one measely 256 MB card. Wow, what an upgrade. The Nvidia card in it worked with the nouveau driver, but the nvidia drivers were too old to be supported.

  I used antiX17.4.1. I’m going to try 19.3 eventually. And now with more RAM, I’ve expanded the games scope to cover nearly all my old favorites. I’ve got some issues to iron out, like sound, resolution is cut off at the screen edges. But, like you said:

  Maybe i’ll figure it out maybe I won’t. It doesn’t matter, it’s just for fun.

  Up

  0

  Some hints for use of antiX on single core processors (I have an athlon XP with 1,6 GHz and 2GB RAM, nvidia graphics card):
  Don’t rely on the default or automatic settings the preinstalled programs are set to:

  1.) Nvidia-settings: OpenGL Settings–>image settings: set to “Performance” instead of “Quality”
  GPU0 Powermizer: set mode to “maximum performance” (you won’t see any difference in screen resolution or sharpness on standard monitors, the standard settings are good for superfine highres screens, at cost of performance on week systems)

  2.) Firefox: blocks System (between 10 Seconds and 10 Minutes) completely, if you use the default settings in section “Performance”, the “recommended Performance settings”. These don’t work. For single core Processors (in particular when providing SSE1 only) e.g. Athlon XP, you have to set the “maximum amount of content-processes” to “1” only which will speed up your system.
  2a.) set “browser.tabs.allowTabDetach false” in “about:config”. This prevents firefox from an annoying delay in processing mouse-klicks.

  3.) Mirage: blocks system completely and indefinite by preloading images. You have to deactivate the setting “preload of images” in the tab “Navigation” for single core processors. This will cost some seconds for every image when viewing it before it is displayed, but your system will not get affected any longer.

  This will render antiX 17 and also 19 to be fast and fluent working even on this class of processors, given your cpu has enough core speed, sufficient RAM (e.g. 2 GB), and a dedicated gpu graphics card (saving the cpu from doing the job of a gpu).

  Please feel free to add your findings in concern of necessary change of default settings to this listing.

  P.S.: nouveau driver works only on the first look fine (if it works at all), but crashes system randomly, does not function after wake-up from suspend, does not allow fine tuning like the performance or vibrance settings from original nvidia driver to make your system fast and fluent running.

  • This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by Robin.
  Up

  0

  Might think of looking into hypnotix instead of kodi. takes a little more work though. Back in the day. I used Miro.

  Cuz it worked on low spec gear.

  Edit: Miro will be in your package installer also.

  2nd edit. Did a search on MX forum for hypnotix. I guess being a Mint linux app. It has not hit the forum yet. No return on search results.

  • This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.
  • This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.

  Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
  Not all who Wander are Lost.
  I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

  Linux Registered User # 475019
  How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

  Up

  0

  My antiX fu is a little stronger now

  Hey Hey! Great to hear (read) it!

  I finished up my project, too. antiX 19 running well on it.

  I fiddled with the TV settings to get a nice, full screen without anything cut off.

  The sound – I was cranking up everything in the alsa mixer, then trying every line-out setting. Eventually, something worked! I remembred people on this forum saying to do (something like I did), to get sound working, ever since I started visiting.

  Super Tux & Extreme Tux Racer (oh, also Swell-Foop) don’t work — I figure openGL version is too old. But the most important ones: Doom (Crispy-Doom Port), DOSBox, PCSXR (Playstation 1 emu), pysolfc (Solitaire), ScummVM, and I think 1 or 2 more ARE working. So I call it a success.

  And, with a usb wifi dongle, I’ve got links2 (about all this thing will do well, internet-wise) and pmrp running, on-demand.

  antiX-fu is strong, I’d say! I think you’d agree!

  This is my antiX-fu formula (AND YOU CAN TRUST ME, I’M A MODERATOR): 90% JUST-SHOWING-UP + 10% SEARCHING INTERNET & FORUM = SUCCESS.

  (When I say “showing up,” I mean, just keep trying. Don’t give up.)

  🙂 🙂 🙂

  (Obvioiusly you won’t ALWAYS win. But more often than not. 😉 )

  • This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by christophe.
  • This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by christophe.
  Up

  0

  Hi seaken64,
  it’s great news you have managed to install the legacy nvidia 304 driver in antiX 19.3. Since I have done this also, following the instructions found in the nvidia 6800 /6600 thread, and encountered some problems afterwards, I have some questions:

  1.) Can you flawlessly start spacefm and the other programs I mentioned? Or do you see the same error instead, concerning the missing libvdpau.so.1 file?

  2.) Did you apply the patches needed to make nvidia driver work in antiX 19? (If not, does it work anyway?)

  3.) Could you please be so kind and describe exactly which steps you did in which order exactly, to succeed? (I’m still struggling with the missing libvdpau.so.1, and meanwhile thinking about restarting the process from scratch following the method you deployed this time instead.

  P.S.: Just for my curiosity since I’m not a native speaker, I have no Idea what you mean by saying “stong fu / weak fu“. Seems to be kind of idiomatic expression, even dictionaries don’t know it.

  Up

  0

  Additional question:
  4.) Do you have Xorg 19 or 20 after applying your way of installing the nvidia 304 driver? The way described in the nvidia 6800/6600 thread mentioned above leads to version 19 only, so it would be of some interest to me whether you have or somebody else has got version 20 instead.
  Many thanks!

  • This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by Robin.

Kodi 18.4 64 Bit Download

Kodi 17.4 64 Bit Download