To encourage you, have a read of this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3811

rolfie

I am using VB for many years now, no issues with it. Some people say its crap because its from Oracle. Ok.

Tried qemu, and did not have the features I used to have with VB: a good and useful graphical tools to administer, easy pass through of USB drives, shared folders. And it looked liked I could not reliably use it, it crashed on me spontaneously several times. So I dropped my try.

To pass through USB you have to install the extension pack, without it would not work. And you need to be in the vboxusers group. If I remember correctly on Beowulf I had to load some modules. That wasn't required with ASCII. Got an old XP and a Win7 virtual machine working fine for me (and I use VB to try Linux distros and new versions like Chimaera in VB).

If you need support give us a shout.

rolfie

Yes, backports is pinned down. If you want packages from backports, you need to enter:

apt -t ascii-backports install wine

or (as example)

apt install wine-4.0-2~bpo9+1

rolfie

I have got 4 PC with encrypted LVMs/unencrypted boot running under Beowulf on 5.8 kernel with no issues. They are automatically decrypted during boot based on keys from USB sticks.

rolfie

Installing the 5.8 kernel from backports is a good approach, but only 50% of the job. When you can install the backports kernel, what hinders you to perform the other 50% and enter:

apt -t beowulf-backports install firmware-linux-nonfree

rolfie

Edith: in the top right hand corner of this page is a button labelled Packages. Open this page, enter firmware-linux-nonfree and look at the output.

Just a small hint how to easily find Devuan package information:

On top of every page in this forum on the right hand side you find 5 links. The one to the right says Packages.

Open that link, enter hplip* in the box and select Any as release. You get a list of entries across all Devuan versions.

In Beowulf on 3.18.12 is present. No backports version. You may try the 3.20 from Ceres. Somewhere in this forum is a howto how to avoid pulling all kinds of stuff from the Ceres repo.

rolfie

One topic per thread only please.

When I connect my Panasonic (don't own a Sony, never had) to the usb port I get a similar output. The memory isn't shown with lsusb.

Bus 002 Device 008: ID 04da:2372 Panasonic (Matsushita) Lumix Camera (Storage mode)

When I connect my camera I have to select a mode, either Pict Bridge (PTP) or PC. I only use the later. What about the Sony?

When the camera is connected with the correct mode selected, the SD memory card shows up in lsblk:

sdh                   8:112  1 119,1G  1 disk  
└─sdh1                8:113  1 119,1G  1 part  /media/rolf/3663-6361

and is available on my Mate desktop as 128GB device. Caja shows "MATSHITA DC-TZ91: Datenträger 128 GB". I can copy images from the card to my home drive then as desired.

What is happening on your laptop? Is the memory shown in lsblk?

rolfie

Edith: just tried the PTP mode for curiosity. Hey it also works in my configuration, same drive is present in lsblk and on the Caja screen, just named slightly different.

Read https://devuan.org/os/packages, in the bottom backports are mentioned.

Once they are enabled in the sources.list, do an apt update, then apt -t beowulf-backports install firmware-amd-graphics.

For the kernel list what is available, then select the one you want, e.g.:

apt list linux-image-5*
apt install linux-image-5.7.0-0.bpo.2-amd64

rolfie

Some thoughts to that:
* Use ext2 instead of ext3/4, no journal so should be faster. Linux permissions.
* Use exfat. Pro: can be read on Win7/8/9/10 too. Does not have the FAT32 limitations. Downside: no Linux permissions.
* Same for NTFS.

rolfie

policykit

rolfie

Digged a bit further in this script issue and found an older German page that described how to configure to run a script via lightdm.conf.

Basically had success to set the greeter screen to 1920x1080, unfortunately with side effects.

Two user accounts are present, mine with native resolution to administrate the PC, and my wife's account with tweaked resolution. Switching users sometimes brings a scaled up login screen, sometimes native resolution. When I logon, it takes seconds to bring up the panel, the usual icons on the desktop, and starting apps shows a delay. When directly logging into my wife's tweaked account, the screen is scaled up a second time.

This performance is not acceptable.

Tomorrow I will remove all tweaks and try a xorg.conf.

rolfie

After some digging I have learned that a xprofile is not used under Debian/Devuan.

Currently I am lost, I haven't found anything useful in the net.

rolfie