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#1 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan ARM64 how to install correct headers or change kernel » 2018-02-25 00:48:54

golinux wrote:
jakecheslekov wrote:

Hello my fellow VUA's!

Time for a history lesson which I'm sure will benefit many on this forum.  Very few of those who use Devuan have ever interacted with the Veteran Unix Administrators who were responsible for initiating the Debian fork.  The VUAs are a collective of skilled system admins - I once heard about 800 - based in Northern ltaly.  Here is a history of that group.  (Now I won't have to go searching for that link ever again . . .)

I was referring to devuan users in general, didn't want to go so deep with it, vua is what separates devuan from debian... aaaanyways. I'm curious about how this 'u-boot' works, how does one upgrade a kernel? APT doesn't want to allow it to install. Great job though giving us a .tar.gz for the RPi 3! I like that a lot!

#2 Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan ARM64 how to install correct headers or change kernel » 2018-02-24 21:41:20

jakecheslekov
Replies: 3

Hello my fellow VUA's! I'm learning the ARM64 architecture right now on a Raspberry Pi 3B - just testing it out for fun at the moment, I was wondering how I can either

A) install the correct headers for the current kernel, or
B) change kernels & then get the headers installed.

I've got a 2.4GHz 300MBPS WiFi USB with an extended +8 DBi antenna I'd like to use for broadcasting a 2.4GHz wireless network, its an RTL8192EU so I have to compile the driver from the github.com/mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver page & I use the little script Oblique made on GitHub, github.com/oblique/create_ap

I've already installed Devuan ARM64 via the TAR.GZ using the ArchLinux instructions, so that way I could make the BOOT drive much bigger, so it has enough room now for another kernel.

I can't compile the driver for the WiFi USB unless I actually have the right headers for the kernel I'm using, I do not see any headers for my current kernel in APT so I figure I have to somehow make it use a different kernel, I'm new to this u-boot thing & new to ARM devices(except android phones/tablets), how can I do this?  What is my best route to do what I'd like to do? Why isn't there a headers package in APT for the current kernel?

#3 Hardware & System Configuration » Bluetooth blueman PS3 Controllers Sixaxis sixad not connecting » 2018-02-19 20:01:57

jakecheslekov
Replies: 0

Hello hello! I'm trying to figure out why blueman won't connect to any of my PS3 controllers, I'm fairly certain I have all the hidapi, libusb, libjack, etc drivers but for some reason blueman just won't connect to the controllers - it will detect them & add them to the list but it won't successfully connect unfortunately.

QTSIXA seems to work just fine though. Very odd... I've tried upgrading all the bluez packages[to ceres repo] too but it would seem that has changed nothing.
I've also upgraded blueman to 2.0.4 from a .deb package(upgrading to ceres' 2.0.5 would upgrade far too many packages, I don't want to frankenstein APT)

Is anyone else able to successfully make blueman connect up to their PS3 controllers?

If you've got the same problem as me, you can use: https://github.com/supertypo/qtsixa.git

#4 Re: News & Announcements » Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta is here! » 2018-02-18 21:49:46

libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind
libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind

Are two packages that should be installed with the rest of the system, instead it gives us libpolkit-backend-1-0-systemd & libpolkit-gobject-1-0-systemd

Also, It would appear "libsystemd" is installed when installing Devuan ASCII LXDE, I thought the entire point of Devuan was to avoid systemd? Or is 'libsystemd' just for systemd dependencies? I'm not entirely sure, sorry.

#5 Re: Installation » ASCII pm-utils bug? also possibly polkit? » 2018-02-15 22:16:31

Did you try installing libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind???[fixed] Because that solved my problems! The only problem I'm still having is this PID error upon booting up, which doesn't seem to be actually affecting anything.

Edit: SORRY I meant -elogind not -consolekit. My apologies.

These 2 packages seem to fix the problem:
libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind
libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind

#6 Installation » ASCII pm-utils bug? also possibly polkit? » 2018-02-15 05:57:52

jakecheslekov
Replies: 5

Hello hello Devuan community! I was very excited to see Devuan 2.0 in the distrowatch list today!

So I've got Devuan 2.0 up & running & it runs great as always, but I've run into a few issues unfortunately.
pm-utils is the program that manages power settings like hibernate/standby right? I think it may not be packaged right or something may be wrong with the package, as my xfce4-power-manager's hibernate+standby settings are currently missing & part of the xfce4-power-manager is greyed out, usually after installing pm-utils the standby+hibernate options will become available in xfce4-power-manager, but its not doing that for some odd reason.

and when I boot up the computer, once its logged into the desktop, I get a funny error message about a PID. I think it may be the polkit or something of that sort, but I could be wrong. I'm using LXDE.

It would appear the pid number is different every time I boot it up, upon this boot it says "No session for pid 2499"

another reason I suspect the polkit, is the lxsession-logout menu doesn't seem to work either, I'm unable to select shutdown or reboot from the menu.

GDBUS.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InteractiveAuthorizationRequired: Interactive authentication required.
^ this is the error I get upon trying to select shutdown or reboot from lxsession-logout.

There's always a chance I'm doing something wrong, but I really think there's something up with pm-utils. Maybe its the /etc/group not configured right? I'm not really sure what it could be to be honest. Anyone have any ideas what I can try? Thank you for your time.

edit: hmmmm...... installing libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind & replacing libpolkit-backend-1-0-consolekit seems to have solved the lxsession-logout issue as well as what I thought was pm-utils issue, but I'm still getting this "PID 2xxx" error upon logging into LXDE.

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