Again, some more days of hard testing and adjusting. The intel compute stick STK1AW32SC had two issues: Sleeping display did came up with a black screen and mouse pointer (no chance to get back desktop). There is now a background script (xorgreset.pl) that sends an xrandr command to get the screen back (needs up to 30 seconds). The sound card on STK1AW32SC had the problem that from time to time after booting sound was not available. I adjusted pulseaudio to setup now corectly. And yes, display only works with uxa flag in xorg.conf (make the whole thing a bit slower). Working with 4K is not fully recommended (FullHD is putted to the stick by default).

Over the weekend, I tested too STK2M364CC (intel m3 with 4 GB RAM). Yes, I know price is nearly twice, but if you want full 4K, the 2G variant is (at least at current stage) not fully recommended. Worked nearly out of the box, the only thing I had to add was that sound is always going for 48000k (see /etc/pulse/daemon.conf).

During testing it wideley I saw that Firefox is slow playing viedoes. I first wanted to add falkon (which was faster), but realized that there must be some problems (I assume it is dbus, but not shure). Then I checked for Iridium. Beside of the fact that it does need more space on the iso, it is quite perfect. It is a fork of Chromium (removal of sending tracking infos to the "Chief"). Now, watching videos is quite fast. Especially on the "chiefs" channel. And yes if you don't like the "chief", go via duckduckgo, then the "chief" should not be up to you.

Have a nice time.

There is another good new release of AVMultimedia, it know works on intel compute sticks (2gb version), has kernel 5.3.x (new grapic devices), bluetooth support (finally) and does boot up more nicely. Version is 2019/X, you can donload it from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/archivista/files/

https://osdn.net/projects/avmultimedia/

Special note: The widely tested intel compute stick is BOXSTK1AW32SC  and yes, you don't need power supply, it just runs on a usb port (even playback of 4k videos). If you are interest in (and do live in southern part of germany, eastern part of austria or switzerland, there will be a presentation (in german) tommorrow at linuxday.at, more information see here:

https://www.linuxday.at/avmultimedia-18 … -dem-start

I had to publish a new release due to a small bug in update process (squashfs file lib.os was not updated). Now this is fixed. Enjoy!

AVMultimedia is now even faster! Around 10 seconds to start the full desktop (about 6 GB of uncompressed software ready to use). So, why is it made? Just use LZ4 compression all around and you will get very good results (even starting of apps is normally faster then with full RAM mode). Have a look here:

https://youtu.be/sbDpZUgil1w

As it now boots much faster, I had to recut the video 'hello world to linux' (version 2):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4CesttE94

If you want to see the difference, just start AVMultimedia without the flag 'superlow', then you get the old method to start it (completely in RAM). Acutally only the very base system fits in RAM, the rest comes directly from iso/stock, but again with this very fast LZ4 uncompression. And yes, ISO are around 15 to 20 percent bigger, but YES, AVMultimedia now works on Computers with just about 1 GB of RAM. Enjoy!

Another new release, now booting is faster. To setup the whole system (more then 6 gb software) I actually only need between 15 and 35 secunds.

Just released a new version with a (hopefully) better design:

http://archivista.ch/cms/wp-content/upl … da_new.png

Enjoy!

All over the weekend I searched for the bug about starting it in uefi mode with kvm/qemu. Fact was, with the older release (kernel 4.19.x) it worked, while with the kernel 5.2.x it did not work. Aflter a long search and some hundreds of restarts I found out it just was a kernel module that I had to disable: CONFIG_X86_SYSFB. If someone is interested in the problem, see here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57479

VirtualBox I could not test, I did not find the swith to enable UEFI (if someone can test or post the way to activate uefi), that would be helpfully.

The keyboard tool is now available. After downloading the current release I will find a new icon in the panel at right (just left of the icon to shutdown the machine). It does list all keyboards that are in the system available. There would be a hundred of variants (so I only included Swiss French & Swiss Italien). If you see some variants that ure used very common, just let me know.

The keyboard definitin needs to be saved if you want it to have preconfigured through AVMultimedia. You can do this under menu System, submenu AVMultimedia & Parameters. There choose 'Save Desktop'.

Please let me know if it does work. If so, I can start having a look for the virtualization "problems". If you (or someone else) has any whishes, please let me know.

I recommend to use LEGACY bios so far for virtualization test. The screen resolution problem I too have with the bios file OVMF.fd. I will sooner or later take care about it. But one question with which other Linux does it work?

I just need to install a computer where virtualbox does run, but I will check it out. Thank's for the hint.

Yes, this is true. The project started in Switzerland, and so far I did not find out how to change the language outside of Kodi. But you can change to English and from then it belongs to the choosen language (all settings are stored in /home/archivista/data/kodi).

Currently, you really have to to switch language in Control center. All other ways don't work so far.

You can use the arrow keys to switch to the desired language. In older release of Mate, there was a list and it was much easier to choose. I think about a keyboard tool, just give me some time.

Yes, pulseaudio is some way a bit tricky, but much better to choose devices (i.e. HDMI or internal card with headphones).

I too check all ISOs first it in a KVM guest, this is true. At this stage just disable UEFI and you are fine. So better support of VMs would be fine.

But I think, choosing the keyboard in an easy way is more important, so if you agree I first will focus an this.

I will try to explain it. Since 1998 I have a small(er) company which does produce document management systems (so called Archivista). In 2005 we switched from Windows to Linux and branded the product ArchivistaBox. At that stage the system was built with t2-project-org. As everything in t2 is built from source, it was too much work, so we switched around 2010/11 to Debian (you still will find under derivates the ArchivistaBox). 2017 I ran into a problem with a customer that needed hplip with classical init system; unfortunately it did not work with debian. So I tried it with Devuan and it worked. Since then I work with Devuan. This is all, but see the FAQs about AVMultimeida there I try to explain it too:

http://archivista.ch/cms/en/support-2/avmultimedia-2/

As I told you my company is a small(er) and it is a lot of work to fullfll all things (and yes I have family and children, and they too need time). I'm now far over 50 and at this age I don't want waste time about why one should choose system x or y. But I think that (linux) systems should be as easy as possible. I like Devuan because the fact that not every part is done completely new. In this manner it makes things as easy as possible.

In other parts, I think there is more work needed. My impression here is that most people here work since decades with linux what I like. It is good when Devuan is the Linux for linux veterans, but one should keep in mind that reaching the younger generation is too important.

Asking to add AVMultimedia is not so important. I just thought that it would be a benefit and that the Devuan team likes when someone is doing stuff with Devuan. Sure I did not bring in so far time or money to the project. The only reason is, my budget (on time and money) is rather small. But I can add here, I invested in past (on time and money) on several projects.

Due to my poor English and the fact that I rather like to travel by bike or even by foot (or then by train, nearly no airplane), yes you will not find my on every linux conferences around the world. I just did find out that the Devuan team has a booth at next linuxday.at (19th of October). I will be there too (may be there is time to get in contact). Just to note, I will give a talk about AVMultimedia:

https://www.linuxday.at/avmultimedia-18 … -dem-start

My wish about Devuan and AVMultimedia would be that a modern linux desktop can be used, for the whole family (even with no linux skills), at school and in business cases. Such a system must be much more easier than it is today.

My wish is not to make the system just for me easy, we need an easy system for all the people (most of them are still using not LInux and even not Devuan). Just today my 9 year daughter told me that they needed nearly the whole hour to get logged in and registred at windows computers at school. I think this problem would not exist on Devuan. But when I try to explain people who easy it could be with linux they mostly claim about installation (even with Devuan). I'm ready to share my experience with you and yes, let us make life more easier with Devuan.

AVMultimedia: new version to setup xorg server

Just uploaded new iso files. Update gives you possiblity to start fbdev xorg.conf device in case the automatic recognition does not working well.

After it you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then save for next booting over sub menu 'System' and there 'Parameters'. There choose the option 'Save xorg file'. From that point on while starting AVMultimedia, this specific xorg.conf file will be used.

First of all, I just published an iso (running it again with 2 gb). So if you have 8 GB RAM, that cannot be the problem. But your stick should be 4GB.

Please start once without harddisk and network. So about needed RAM I cann tell you:

What happens if AVMultimedia is started with less than 4 GB RAM?

If less than 3000 MB memory is available, some programs will not load: GIMP, Scratch3, Gcompris and Sozi. The lowest limit for use is 2 GB.

Why can't I start GIMP, Scratch3, Gcompris and/or Sozi?

Probably less than 3000 MB of main memory are available. In this case the above applications are not integrated. However, the first three can be downloaded manually as AppImage packages.

How do I start the different menu items when booting without UEFI?

Below eight codes are given: dhd dno dhda dhda dnoa ehd eno ehda enoa

The first letter corresponds to the language (d/e}, the following two letters are about whether the hard disk should be used (hd/no) and if an 'a' is listed at the end, this means that acpi_osi= is set.

So start your box i.e. eno or enoa