Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Hardware & System Configuration

trackpad/pointing stick not function after battery loss

dummy@example.com (Mercury) — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:07:50 +0000

If the hardware disappears in xinput (can also check cat /proc/bus/input/devices) then it's completely gone as far as Linux is concerned.

Back to basics: Are you sure there isn't a hardware/firmware level way to disable/enable the trackpad? There is on my laptop, it's a Fn+F8 key combo that is handled by the firmware directly.

You can check sudo dmesg for any messages about the device being disconnected.

Problem with keyboard: Key presses are sometimes ignored

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:36:53 +0000

That sounds like a typical HW problem. Remove your KVM switch and test.

How to set system time?

dummy@example.com (KindlyDoRight) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:51:51 +0000

Good morning,
For setting the system time inside of a KVM guest, this article makes a compelling case for using chrony with the ptp_kvm kernel module. This article has full implementation instructions.

A VM's Clock Cannot Be Trusted — and the ptp_kvm Fix for QEMU/KVM (Aug 7, 2026)
https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/vm-time-ptp-kvm/

[SOLVED] uninstalled Brave, but "The following signatures couldn't be verified"

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:16:21 +0000

You are welcome. Thats what we are here for.

[SOLVED] (xfce) fails to logout: session manager must be in idle state ..

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:43:22 +0000

it is somewhat solved by shutting "thunderbird", afterwards it closed the session immeditaely and shutdown correctly.

not sure what to make of it, it seems the email program inhibiting shutdown command.

(Guide) How install Virtualbox-7.2 on Devuan 6 Excalibur

dummy@example.com (Devarch) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:02:21 +0000

I personally prefer and recommend https://github.com/pkgforge-community/i … x-appimage. This is an AppImage of the VirtualBox KVM version. It includes VB extensions that do not require installation and use KVM to run VMs without needing to install additional kernel modules from Oracle that previously had critical vulnerabilities. All features of VBox are included, such as shared folders and USB support; they are out of the box. Another advantage is that it can be run in parallel with any other KVM virtualization tool.

[SOLVED] /etc/resolv.conf resets on reboot ever since I switched routers

dummy@example.com (gipi) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:18:22 +0000

Thanks, but I don't have either network-manager or connman.
The solution it seems to be is to edit /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf to prepend additional DNS servers

[SOLVED] SD Card problem

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:08:33 +0000

Hello:

fsmithred wrote:

One or more of these should work.

Thanks for the heads-up.
Had never heard of [sfdisk] before.

Best,

(HowTo) repair wrong permission-set?

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:33:15 +0000

sudo chown -R root:root /usr
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

but now sudo seem no longer operational

sudo apt update
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set

the AI friend can bhe helplful ~ normally consult only on "technical" issues, everything else is out of range, of course (well, he's is listening, and not amuesed,

edti: have recoverred from "sudo chwon -R root:root /usr" with the

chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo && chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo

however the issue still stands; am wondering if such a one-liner can have such destrcutive effect; but for now would have to answer affirmative; he has played me, again.

[SOLVED] sane-find-scanner permissions difference Debian/Devuan

dummy@example.com (angstrom) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:45:42 +0000

Thanks to @frz07 and to @rbit for the suggestion to use udevadm, which works for me as well

Specifically, I applied @rbit 's suggestion:

udevadm hwdb --update
service eudev restart

Which is much easier than creating a new udev rule!

(I guess that tagging users isn't enabled in FluxBB?)

[SOLVED] Devuan Won't Load Firmware AMD Radeon 7700S

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:19:52 +0000

@forsoothplays,

fair enough, have noticed the AI "responsd" anyways,or is trying as such, depending on configuration of course.

here is how it looks on my laptop.

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wani [Radeon R5/R6/R7 Graphics] [1002:9874] (rev c9)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5120]
        Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
        Kernel modules: amdgpu

glad however if you solved it for you, also Ubuntu can make a laòptop user happy.
(noticed that the forum overhaul is not fully inclusive, but that may just be a observation tad out of place)

[SOLVED] tzdata from daedalus-security is a deb12 build on a deb13 system

dummy@example.com (zerrax) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:27:42 +0000

Thanks everyone for the quick and clear replies — that solved it.

To confirm for anyone finding this thread later: my confusion came from mixing up
Devuan's codenames with Debian's. Daedalus = Debian 12 (Bookworm), Excalibur =
Debian 13 (Trixie). The tzdata "upgrade" to a deb12 build was actually correct for
Daedalus, and the tzdata-legacy conflict was expected on that release.

I've since upgraded from Daedalus to Excalibur via the command line (sources.list
edit + apt update / upgrade / dist-upgrade). Fastest major upgrade I've ever done —
everything came through cleanly, and the tzdata situation resolved itself on Excalibur.

Thanks again — together we make Devuan better. 🐧

[SOLVED] Install on my wife's Toshiba L750-22X

dummy@example.com (SS) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:16:10 +0000

Thank you! I'll have a look

excalibur does not wake up from sleep after suspend

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:04:56 +0000

have you tried installing the latest system drivers?
i reember found it difficult to find the proper driver packages for one NUC i bought 11th gen one time ] ~~there should be one file that has them all,~~ maybe you need a BIOS update;
uneducated guess, sorry.

ah, you got a ASUS NUC, that made it possibly more asiy to find the system driver. if anything, thats my guess.

Radeon HD 5770 at G27Q20 monitor, how set 2560x1440 mode?

dummy@example.com (deepforest) — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:10:10 +0000

That's 2056px not 2560px horizontal. That'll work but it's not the native resolution of the monitor.

Indeed. Thanks. I am was tired and miss out this.

Also found this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ATI#QH … deon_cards

Older cards have their pixel clock limited to 165MHz for HDMI. Hence, they do not support QHD or 4k only via dual-link DVI but not over HDMI.

The patch introduces a new kernel parameter radeon.hdmimhz which alters the pixel clock limit.

So, both Ati\Radeon and Nvidia have limits 165MHz?
Why this still not fixed at opensource drivers?
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172421