^ I went to startpage.com and put this in the search box then added "linux" (without the quotation marks) and pressed <return>.

This was the most useful result:

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use … s/mediatek

Did you not think to try a search engine? They are very useful.

The firmware-misc-nonfree package description lists "MediaTek MT7961 bluetooth firmware" so you will also need that if you want to use Bluetooth.

The chimaera-backports repository has a recent enough kernel version for that card. No need for the OP to use a development branch.

@OP: add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main

Then run

# apt update
# apt install -t chimaera-backports linux-image-amd64

If you can't connect via ethernet then download the newer kernel from http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/ … _amd64.deb on another machine, then transfer it over to the Devuan box and install it with dpkg -i linux-image*.deb and reboot.

Once the wireless card is recognised add the chimaera-backports repository and the linux-image-amd64 metapackage to keep that kernel updated.

Why not use x-terminal-emulator instead? That way it will use whatever emulator is set as the default alternative. Some people don't like xterm and it won't even be installed in some systems.

Back on topic: got bored of fighting with finit so switched to runit-init instead:

Made a polkid-dummy package 'cos I don't need that shit on my box.

The trick is to read the man page.

But I might be wrong about this because

gsettings range org.gnome.system.locale region

Outputs

type s

Which makes no sense

You could try

gsettings set org.gnome.system.locale region nn_NO.UTF-8

And please use code tags rather than quote tags when posting terminal output.

What does this say:

gsettings get org.gnome.system.locale region

Use the set option (instead of get) to set the correct region. The gsettings command is supplied by the libglib2.0-bin package. Or use dconf-editor if you prefer a GUI.

^ Vanilla dwm with no status line? How quaint

It's been enabled by default since stretch, at least for the GNOME desktop.

I've been using it for about five years on both the family laptops (running stable ofc) with no problems at all. It's really nice, I don't have to touch those machines at all, which is the ideal for me.

EDIT: the only caveat would be if the kernel was upgraded and then a device needing a new module to be loaded was plugged in, which would then fail. I've never actually encountered that though.

It's actually visible in the screenshot. Here it is again, I haven't worked on it since then though:

#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
clear
play() {
   foot -e ffplay -nodisp "$@"
}
while : ; do
   channel=$(
   whiptail --nocancel --notags --title "My Crappy Radio Player (text)" --menu "Select channel" 16 100 9 \
      "1" "Metal/Rock Radio!" \
      "2" "Progressive Metal!" \
      "3" "Symphonic Metal!" \
      "4" "Alternative Rock!" \
      "5" "Grunge Rock!" \
      "6" "Classic Rock!" \
      "7" "Exit" 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3
   )
   case "$channel" in
      1) play https://kathy.torontocast.com:2800/ ;;
      2) play http://23.237.150.98:8512/ ;;
      3) play https://bob.hoerradar.de/radiobob-symphmetal-mp3-hq ;;
      4) play https://ad-im-cmg.streamguys1.com/atl971hd2/atl971hd2-sgplayer-aac ;;
      5) play http://bigrradio.cdnstream1.com/5200_48 ;;
      6) play http://oom-cmg.streamguys1.com/orl989/orl989-sgplayer-aac ;;
      7) exit
   esac
done
exit

That uses whiptail but that can be replaced by dialog with no other changes if you prefer that.

EDIT: for Devuan replace foot with x-terminal-emulator, which should work in all systems regardless of the preferred terminal.

And here's a dwm scrot to stay on topic:

Don't worry OP, there's no mud here. I'm always happy to read the frank opinions of experienced people like steve_v and blackhole. It's all good :-)

It's not that dpkg is broken, as such, it's just that usrmerge induces packaging-related bugs, as described here. The system in general should keep on working.

I've just encountered one such bug myself when I tried dpkg-fsys-usrunmess(8) on my usrmerged system — it failed on the base-files postinst script and so completely broke APT. I had to move the postinst out of the way then reinstall usrmerge (with the --allow-remove-essential option) to get things working again. Yikes.

Looks like libcgmanager0 (not "libcmanager0") isn't in chimaera but it is listed as a dependency for the consolekit package. Seems like a mistake to me but I'm not a Devuan developer so I might be wrong. The package is available in daedalus though but don't try to add it from those repositories, that will probably break your system.

You can replicate the functionality of consolekit with elogind (which is probably installed in your newer box) or you can do without either by adding your user to the video, audio & input groups (and maybe a few others depending on your needs) but that method is insecure for a multi-user system.

Reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20200928212 … escription (but note that Devuan is packaging the consolekit2 version, which is under current development)

I'm pretty sure that's your browser rather than these boards.

^ Thanks :-)

It turns out I can kill dbus under systemd as well:

archie:~$ cat /proc/1/comm
systemd
archie:~$ pgrep -a dbus
1archie:~$

The only thing I'm using that needs it is iwd but good old-fashioned wpa_supplicant works just fine.

That could very well have broken your system, depending on the exact commands used. Please provide those commands.

I have no idea what this means, sorry. Can you not ask about this on a forum in your native language?

I just installed the system with debootstrap then added a kernel & finit-sysv, along with openbox, tint2, xorg, etc. I had to add my user to the video, audio & input groups to get things working without a login session and add the wireless configuration to /etc/rc.local. No need for a separate thread, it was pretty simple.

To get sway working I needed to start dbus and seatd. That's it.