On my machines, I always disable 'Secure Boot' before installing a Linux Distro. Is it the reason why it failed for you?

Fantastic !!!

Hi golinux,
"...We are mulling over possible options to get HP's attention."
Devuan would be the best Linux distro for a 'developer' laptop. It would be much better than their PopOs Gnome thing  ;o)

Hi czeekaj,
have you tried the following:
sudo rfkill unblock all
and reboot?
Sometimes missing firmware are found in firmware-linux-nonfree or firmware-misc-nonfree.

bluez 5.64-1 is now available in Devuan unstable.

~$ apt-cache policy bluez
bluez:
  Installé : 5.64-1
  Candidat : 5.64-1
 Table de version :
 *** 5.64-1 100
        -10 [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.62-2 900
        900 [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] testing/main amd64 Packages
     5.55-3.1 -10
        -10 [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] stable/main amd64 Packages

It works fine at least for mice and keyboards.
Thanks for init freedom

Well, I can't help you more because I run Daedalus and, for me, Vim works flawlessly. Maybe somebody else here will help.

Code is more important than conduct

@GlennW: Devuan Chimaera has version 5.55 of the bluez package and Bluetooth was working normally on Chimaera. Is it OK with your headset?
My concern was about 2 different brands of mice: Lenovo Bluetooth mouse and Xiao Mi mouse. I do not use other BT devices.

Hi,

In my last message about the bluetooth bug in Daedalus, I only found a workaround to make bluetooth work on my Devuan Daedalus installs.

I noticed that some Linux distributions have the new version of the bluetooth stack (5.64), for example OpenSuse 'TumbleWeed', unfortunately with a dependency to systemd. So I looked for the 'official' source code of the latest version (5.64) and found it there : http://www.bluez.org/

Release of BlueZ 5.64
19th March 2022, 06:18 am by Tedd Ho-Jeong An

This is another release mostly with the bug fixes on HOG, GATT, A2DP, Media, AVDTP, AVRCP, and scanning failure. Also, this release includes a fix for building with old glibc (< 2.25), and other minor issues found with the static code analyzing tool. ISO packet support is added to the emulator as a part of LE Audio development.

Source code from : http://www.bluez.org/
Tarball : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetoo … .64.tar.xz

I downloaded the tarball and examined its 'autotools' scripts and configuration files.
Looking at the source code from the tarball in the (autotools) configure.ac file I saw the possibility to get rid the dependency to systemd with the '--disable-systemd' argument to pass to ./configure, so I decided to try to compile the source code.

I had to install 3 include files to compile the binary :
sudo apt install libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev

Then : ./configure --disable-systemd
Then : make

In the src dir, the 'bluetoothd' daemon is built.
In the obexd/src dir, the 'obexd' daemon is built.

obexd => OBEX(OBject EXchange) daemon. OBEX is communication protocol to facilitate the exchange of the binary object between the devices.

I moved the two daemons to the /usr/libexec/ after renaming the old files.

I rebooted my Devuan 'Daedalus' ThinkPad laptop and ;o)

I think it is possible to integrate these two binaries and maybe build a fully working up to date package for Devuan Daedalus. I'd like to contact someone of the Devuan programmers to do this.

Within a few days, I'll know if the new daemons are bugs free and investigate a bit more...

Thank you for 'init freedom' : )

@golinux : thank you for the link to the new ISOs page.
I first installed Chimaera and Daedalus (older ISO) on qemu/kvm virtual machines, easy stuff and no problems!
Then I installed Daedalus on two laptops - a ThinkPad x270 and a ThinkPad 13 2nd gen.
It's a preview and I had some difficulties with partitioning and the network while installing but finally succeeded.
Once installed, Daedalus runs perfectly except for the bluetoothd/bluez service. From time to time it stops and I have to restart the service. The mouse I use works flawlessly with Debian testing, so I believe there's something wrong with Daedalus Bluetooth implementation. For example, when I put my mouse off the Bluetooth service stops.
I've been using Debian testing for years on my computers (DE=Xfce) and Debian stable for my Web server and I intend to switch to Devuan. I'll install Devuan on other desktops and laptops, old and new.
For now I use my 13" ThinkPad with Daedalus installed and except for the Blutooth (5.62) problem I'm very happy with Daedalus.
Thank you for 'init freedom'!

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