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#601 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Why ceres still not updated yet to 5.19 kernel? » 2022-09-10 09:00:11

amaro wrote:

are there any tangible benefits - performance-wise or security-wise - from upgrading from 5.10 to 5.19?

AMD graphics performance and power management with the new amd-pstate driver are massively improved in 5.19. There's lots of other stuff as well if you check the Phoronix site, that gives a good overview of technical developments.

But if you're running old hardware then all these fancy new features do for you is introduce the possibility of more regressions and other bugs.

#602 Re: Documentation » Upgrading Firmware-AMD-Graphics on Devuan Ceres » 2022-09-09 16:39:44

Ubuntu have a linux-firmware package from 2022-08-31:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/all … e/download

The .deb should be safe to install directly in Devuan. It has no dependencies. The package's postinst script runs update-initramfs automatically.

#603 Re: Documentation » Installing CoreCtrl on Devuan Ceres » 2022-09-09 05:57:01

brocashelm wrote:
Method 2. Installing from PPA

Better guide here:

https://wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA

^ That shows how to use PPA source code to build local Devuan packages.

#604 Re: Documentation » Upgrading Firmware-AMD-Graphics on Devuan Ceres » 2022-09-09 05:47:30

It is possible to clone the entire firmware git repository straight into /lib/firmware/ so that it can be updated later with cd /lib/firmware && git pull.

See https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php … 18#p755418 for the method.

#605 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Why ceres still not updated yet to 5.19 kernel? » 2022-09-08 05:59:06

5.19 made it into Debian sid on 2022-09-01: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/ … _changelog

I presume Amprolla picked it up soon afterwards, it's listed in Devuan now: https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … 4=5.19.6-1

If your box can't see it then change your mirror(s), apt update and try again.

EDIT: automatic URL tags seem to be broken.

#606 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Accessing fora on the web » 2022-09-07 17:26:15

Have you considered the possibility that Palemoon is just a steaming pile of antediluvian shite that can't support modern web standards?

#607 Re: Installation » Package speech-dispatcher cannot be properly removed. » 2022-09-07 17:24:31

Everything looks normal to me. Not sure what's going on there.

#608 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Realtek USB wifi stick RTL8188FTV » 2022-09-07 17:23:25

Install the linux-image-amd64 package from the chimaera-backports repository. Or use the Liquorix kernel instead, their Debian bullseye version is compatible with Devuan chimaera.

#609 Re: Installation » Package speech-dispatcher cannot be properly removed. » 2022-09-07 10:53:34

I think there might be an underlying problem not addressed by that workaround. Can we see the findmnt output? It will show if everything's mounted correctly.

#611 Re: Installation » Package speech-dispatcher cannot be properly removed. » 2022-09-07 07:55:49

Try

rm /etc/subuid.2456
apt purge speech-dispatcher

If that doesn't work post the full error message and the output of

stat /proc /etc

#612 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Couple questions regarding Chimaera » 2022-09-06 06:11:39

If /dev/tpm0 exists then the kernel has found the TPM2 chip and provided a driver for it.

Looks like start-stop-daemon only provides an option to start under a specific group rather than a particular user, which is a shame.

You could try replacing the line with something like

	su tss -c '/usr/sbin/tpm2-abrmd'

But it's horrible as a hack because it breaks the PID file.

The tpm2-abrmd package is actually fantastically useful for systems with full disk encryption so this really should be fixed for Devuan.

#613 Re: News & Announcements » [SOLVED] invalid: EXPKEYSIG BB23C00C61FC752C Devuan Repository » 2022-09-05 21:02:35

mobin2008 wrote:

Why dont use apt instead of use directly dpkg?

Because apt performs the authentication checks that are broken until the new keyring package is installed.

#614 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Adjust font dpi in both I3 and xfce » 2022-09-05 18:38:29

Put this command in the i3 configuration:

exec xrandr --dpi 192

Scripting ~/.Xresources is not possible (AFAIK) but you could use xrdb to load specific configuration files from (eg) ~/.xsessionrc.

#615 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Couple questions regarding Chimaera » 2022-09-05 18:31:20

For tpm2-abrmd the daemon is supposed to run as the tss user (/dev/tpm0 should be owned by that user). The systemd unit file has User=tss but the sysvinit file doesn't specify a user.

So edit /etc/init.d/tpm2-abrmd and change line 17 to

	start_daemon -p $PIDFILE -u tss /usr/sbin/tpm2-abrmd

Then run

# service tpm2-abrmd restart

I'm not 100% sure it will work because the man page says that -u is a matching option. Worth a go though.

For ping the chimaera iputils-ping package just missed the fix described in your linked bug report. If you're using that switch to the inetutils-ping package instead.

You should probably file bug reports against both these packages using the reportbug package. The Debian wiki has a page about it. Be sure to check there are no extant reports about the same problem.

#616 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-09-05 06:38:28

Funny man pages:

https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/fu … index.html

Trigger warning: content reflects the attitudes of the times.

EDIT: holy fuck, some of that is really bad. RMS must have had significant input...

#617 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Anacron symlinked to "true", again. » 2022-09-05 06:05:55

Not sure if this is still relevant but:

fsmithred wrote:

I don't know how to program debconf and I don't really have time to figure it out right now. If anyone knows how to get a debconf dialog to run from a postinst script, please help.

You can feed debconf-set-selections with a here string (or here document if you're not using bash) containing the relevant information.

This example is for GRUB:

debconf-set-selections <<<"grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean true"

Use debconf-get-selections to find the correct syntax for each entry and use dpkg-reconfigure to bring up the interactive configuration dialogue for each package that shows all the options.

And off-topic but:

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

you skipped over the pre-pivot stage, which is the initial bootup (adding .1 to your III) using the initrd filesystem.

Devuan uses an initramfs rather than an initrd and so uses chroot instead of pivot_root.

#618 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-09-04 16:32:27

Does the past exist?

I used to believe in the block universe but I'm not so sure now. Heisenberg's principle doesn't allow enough accuracy for the behaviour of particles to be mapped into infinity. But I'm no expert :-)

#619 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » What games do you play on Devuan?? » 2022-09-04 14:50:06

Just bought Titanfall 2 'cos it was on sale in Steam. I didn't even check if it was Linux compatible (it isn't) but Proton handles it just fine — everything seems to work and I'm getting a consistent ~60fps, even when it's busy.

It's a nice game. Very well done first person shooter in the modern style (no health counter, just a countdown to death when you're under fire) with added Mechs. Lovely and very fun even if I am crap at all the wall-jumping movement stuff.

#620 Re: Freedom Hacks » Replacing sudo. » 2022-09-04 14:26:51

^

./configure
make
doas make install

Or add this to your shell initialisation file (eg, ~/.bashrc):

alias sudo='/usr/bin/doas'

Then just carry on using sudo as you always have done.

#621 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How stable Radeon RX 6800 (or higher) on Devuan? » 2022-09-04 14:22:58

I think the RX6800 needs kernel >5.10 and firmware-amd-graphics >2020-11-18 so chimaera should be fine. Just about.

Newer cards will need linux-image-amd64 from chimaera-backports but the latest firmware in the repositories is from 2021-08-18 so you would have to obtain newer versions using other methods such as https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php … 18#p755418.

EDIT: I have no personal experience of that card but I help out lots of AMD users.

#622 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] apt-get update: gpg error (expired key) » 2022-09-03 20:32:16

I think the --allow-insecure-repositories & --allow-unauthenticated options are a bit easier. I forgot about them :-)

#623 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] apt-get update: gpg error (expired key) » 2022-09-03 15:33:20

@nenesse: I think you'll have to use

wget http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb
dpkg -i devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb

#624 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] apt-get update: gpg error (expired key) » 2022-09-03 11:49:48

Do you have a firewall running that might be blocking port 11371?

Can we see the output of

cat /etc/{nsswitch,resolv}.conf

#625 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] apt-get update: gpg error (expired key) » 2022-09-03 11:41:00

Is the system clock correct?

I see

$ gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --search-keys BB23C00C61FC752C 
gpg: data source: http://pgp.surf.nl:11371
(1)	 4096 bit RSA key BB23C00C61FC752C, created: 2017-09-04
Keys 1-1 of 1 for "BB23C00C61FC752C".  Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > 
$

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