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#726 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] How is a 6700XT graphics card supposed to perform? » 2022-11-22 18:06:42
- rolfie
- Replies: 6
Just upgraded my Ryzen 9/X570 system from a 5500XT to a 6700XT graphics card, and I must say I am disappointed about the performance. Not speed itself, now I am seeing drawing artifacts.
Basics: Chimaera, Cinnamon desktop, Lightdm, Chimaera backports kernel and latest amd firmware from same backports. inxi -F shows:
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 22 driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: AMD NAVY_FLOUNDER (DRM 3.48.0
6.0.0-0.deb11.2-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1)
The artifacts are different depending on the application. Firefox and Tor browser seem to work alright, haven't seen any issues. In Evolution I got some square green blocks in the menu and black ones in the footer. In others I see a pattern of square black boxes. Text display in the system protocol viewer partially is getting scrambled mainly when scrolling back up, some coloured artifacts are also present. When I move the mouse out of the window and try to make a screenshot the contents seems to be re-drawn and the problems are gone.
Prepared this thread with the text editor. Square blocks half colored half white overwrite parts of the text in the line that being edited. Again when I call up the screen capture program the artifacts go away. Addtional effects: square blocks appear in the lower part of the window. When I wait some seconds the pattern changes.
In some games I could identify transparent blocks that instead of the window background show the desktop background (proven by moving the window on the screen). Anyhow, I can't show the artifacts by taking a screen capture, as soon as the mouse activates another window the screen seems to be redrawn correctly.
It is hard to re-produce the issues. I could easily create artifacts with the system protocol viewer this morning, now as I try to prepare my screen for taking a picture with my camera, the viewer seems to be working fine.
I have swapped the two display ports on the card, no real difference. A HDMI cable to test a different route reduces the resolution, but same type of issues.
What do I need to conclude from that behaviour? Is that a defective new card? Or a driver issue, i.e. is the HW not fully supported yet? Do I need to go up to Daedalus?
I know my description is vage. I will try to put together something with gimp from my pictures. This will take a while.
rolfie
Edith: picture with artifacts from different sources: 
This picture will be deleted within 31 days from postimg.org
#727 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] linux-image-6.* / Chimaera » 2022-11-22 16:51:25
You will need to enable backports in your sources.list. Then you are able to install the latest kernel from backports on Chimaera. When you are sure its working fine you should consider installing linux-image-amd64 from backports to receive upgrades from there. Side effect: you won't get updates of the 5.10 line of kernels any more.
#728 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] Umlauts (Ä Ö Ü ß) keys are not written in Steam. » 2022-11-15 20:10:14
Isn't the error message explicit enough? You need to use the command like this:
# dpkg-reconfigure localesThis is useless:
# dpkg-reconfigure#729 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Driver for the Intel I219-LM Device » 2022-11-14 21:03:31
Sure you can. You need network to be able to load sw from the web. That will also work in a chroot environment.
Or you load packages with a different computer to a flash drive and copy it to the system causing problems. Installation via dpkg -i.
#730 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Daedalus and access to efivars » 2022-11-14 21:01:27
- rolfie
- Replies: 26
On Beowulf and Chimaera the efivarfs seems not to be loaded automatically on my systems. To avoid issues with the kernel writing crash dumps into the efi flash bricking the MB, I am used to add this line to the fstab:
# To stop linux accessing the EFI variables
efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars efivarfs ro 0 0I have installed Daedalus on my laptop now, and I am getting errors during boot saying (from bootlog):
Mounting local filesystems...mount: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars: efivarfs already mounted or mount point busy.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.Well I tried with adding a remount before the ro:
# To stop linux accessing the EFI variables
efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars efivarfs remount,ro 0 0and now I am getting a different error:
Mounting local filesystems...mount: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars: mount point not mounted or bad option.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.In both cases dmesg does not show additional info.
Now I am stuck, whats wrong? The behaviour definitely is different
#731 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] Umlauts (Ä Ö Ü ß) keys are not written in Steam. » 2022-11-13 21:55:43
Did you use a root terminal? Did you become root with su -?
#732 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Driver for the Intel I219-LM Device » 2022-11-06 18:36:19
Normally drivers are included in the kernel image. The network chip itself isn't brand new, but when you check on the net there was an update of the e1000e driver in 2020. Chances are that the backports kernel improves the stability of the network.
What you need to do:
1.) Add backports to your sources.list. Instructions: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages
2.) Install the backports kernel: # apt -t chimaera-backports install linux-image-5.19.0-0.deb11.2-amd64
Reboot and test. If it works, also install the meta-kernel-package from backports: # apt -t chimaera-backports install linux-image-amd64 to receive updates.
Good luck
#733 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Driver for the Intel I219-LM Device » 2022-11-06 18:03:07
Which release do you use? Chimaera? Have you tried the backports kernel?
#734 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Installing firmware not yet in Devuan nor Debian packages » 2022-11-03 19:18:05
Try again later. Maybe one of the mirrors just had a hickup.
When you directly copy new firmware to /lib/firmware you need to build a new initrd to make that work.
#735 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] The Devuan Ethos » 2022-11-01 21:08:31
But it's not good enough.
Devuan is supposed to be 'vanilla.'
It's not good enough.
... and what this aspect is concerned Devuan = Debian, both behave the same.
#736 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] The Devuan Ethos » 2022-11-01 20:29:27
#737 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] File system check on efi system partition » 2022-11-01 20:26:35
Checked my installations: except for on my laptop the dosfstools is present.
#738 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] File system check on efi system partition » 2022-10-30 20:27:37
- rolfie
- Replies: 2
On my laptop I just saw in the boot messages that the efi system partition wasn't ok (volume not properly unmounted ...). This is a vfat partition mounted at /boot/EFI, and according to the fstab entry a fsck should be done during each boot. I am wondering why this did not work.
Well, unmounted the partition and tried to run fsck.vfat against this partition. To my astonishment the command wasn't found. After some research with the duck I installed the dosfstools package, then the check worked. I had to clear the dirty bit.
Comprehension question: is the installation of the dosfstools package mandatory to make the fsck during boot work?
Thanks, rolfie
#739 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Perfomance Devuan Ceres vs Windows 7 » 2022-10-21 10:10:59
HDD feels slow nowadays compared to SSDs. NVidea support on Linux partially is poor.
#740 Re: Installation » How to change kernal to an old one - 20 Oct 2022 » 2022-10-20 12:10:29
If you want to avoid kernel upgrades, remove linux-image-amd64. This is a meta-package w/o content, just refering to the latest kernel.
#741 Re: Installation » 2 installations alongside - EFI » 2022-10-07 20:54:11
rolfie wrote:The default efi entry is called debian. As long as you work without Secure Boot, you may boot your install media in rescue mode and write individual efi entries for your installations, e.g.:
# grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan4 --no-uefi-secure-bootI have used devuan4 for Chimaera and devuan5 for Daedalus.
Where should I do it? in chimaera (the only which boots)?
Well, thats an approach that works with grub. I have no idea about rEFIne, never used it. And yes, the first and easiest to do would be to start with Chimaera and define an individual name for this version.
In a second step, I would try to boot the Daedalus install media, select rescue mode, select the partitions for Daedalus for a chroot environment, and use the above approach to define a new name for the Daedalus installation. Then it is easily possible to boot either Chimaera or Daedalus with grub, whatever you like.
#742 Re: Installation » 2 installations alongside - EFI » 2022-10-05 20:02:48
The default efi entry is called debian. As long as you work without Secure Boot, you may boot your install media in rescue mode and write individual efi entries for your installations, e.g.:
# grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan4 --no-uefi-secure-bootI have used devuan4 for Chimaera and devuan5 for Daedalus.
#743 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-10-02 09:06:08
When booting the installer make sure you are booting either in legacy mode for a CSM installation or in UEFI mode for a modern efi installation.
#744 Re: Other Issues » GRUB update lands at 'grub rescue>' prompt » 2022-09-11 17:09:13
Got my laptop fixed again. Booted the installer stick into rescue mode, chrooted into the encrypted system. To get that working I needed to load some Realtek firmware for wired network access. Took me a while to figure out that the stick I first used wasn't FAT formatted. The installer didn't like that.
# grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan4 --no-uefi-secure-boot
# update-grubThat fixed it for me.
Edith
Note to the public: in general probably a simple
# grub-install
# update-grubwill do the job.
#745 Re: Other Issues » GRUB update lands at 'grub rescue>' prompt » 2022-09-11 14:07:06
Chimaera: Just tried the update on my laptop: Yes, the grub update will cause headaches. Acer Aspire 5 A515-44, efi only, encrypted LVM with unencrypted root. The installation worked on second try (had to enable rw for the efivarfs), creates a new debian entry in the efi, on reboot the grub rescue shell comes up with "symbol grub_disk_native_sectors not found".
When I use F12 to select my original entry devuan4 the laptop boots. Then I removed the debian, and now I am getting the error also on my devuan4.
#746 Re: Documentation » Upgrading Firmware-AMD-Graphics on Devuan Ceres » 2022-09-09 10:23:37
At least for encrypted system, you need to rebuild the initramfs to include the new firmware:
# update-initramfs -c -t -k all#747 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] LUKS Full Disk Encryption » 2022-09-07 17:49:30
How does the kernel know where to find the system-uuid? It is inside the LUKS partition. To see the UUID of the encrypted partition it would have to decrypt the LUKS partition first. How does it work?
Have a look at /etc/crypttab. The contents of this file is one of the inputs for grub and the initramfs.
#748 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] LUKS Full Disk Encryption » 2022-09-07 17:48:18
Which partitioning software is it in this documentation?
These are pictures taken from the standard installer in normal mode.
#749 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Invalid Signatures » 2022-09-07 17:42:14
No, wget as listed above does not work, because there is no http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb, there only is a http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring-udeb_2022.09.04_all.udeb.
Did the upgrade twice on two of my Daedalus VMs using the wget method, worked out fine with the devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb package, no udeb required.
#750 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Invalid Signatures » 2022-09-07 06:27:47
The wget-method works on Daedalus. Attention: expand the path completely.
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