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#1 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » A tale of two laptops » 2025-10-29 22:18:13
@g4sra & @rolfie
Ha, ha, I thought # meant that it was a comment, though I knew that the commands had to be executed via su/sudo. I thought it was a strange way to write it. Old programmers and all that.
#2 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » A tale of two laptops » 2025-10-27 21:34:06
@kapqa Actually everything is too small, but I can adjust browser zoom and font sizes to counter it. I would never buy another AMD laptop -- sorry, AMD -- because it appears to not be fully supporting the Linux community with Ryzen 7. New laptops are all plastic junk. I think I will buy another old one.
@rolfie inxi is not installed on either laptop, so I'm not sure that's the problem. I will install it and see what happens.
@fanderal I used your exact lines and rebooted, but the GRUB menu was still tiny. I'll play around with that some more.
#3 Desktop and Multimedia » A tale of two laptops » 2025-10-26 19:42:54
- paramtn
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It was the best of laptops, it was the worst of laptops.
I have two laptops, both HP, both 17", both running Devuan 5 MATE. #1 is Ryzen 3 and #2 is Ryzen 7. #1 is a few years old and works as I would expect. #2, however, acts like the device drivers have bugs.
During boot, I see a screen offering to boot Devuan or some other options. #1 works as expected, with the font being readable, maybe 14. #2 displays in a tiny font, maybe 6.
I have installed all of the AMD packages I can find: AMD64-microcode, firmware-amd-graphics, and all the ones offered by "apt update." Are there others?
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