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#176 Installation » daedalus amd64 netinstall iso installer graphics displayed incorrect » 2023-04-30 17:47:53

chomwitt
Replies: 8

I used devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20230425_amd64_netinstall.iso
in my PC with a newly installed gpu 6950xt (rdna2) .
After i choose either default install or expert install i see a distorted image of
the installer that cant be read to proceed.

I found a  5year old thread of the same issue (i guess that devuan uses debian installer) :
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=132200
The image linked in that discussion is like what i see.

I tried the devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview_20230209_amd64_desktop-live image and it booted to gui with no problem. I write this line from using it.

#177 Hardware & System Configuration » 6950xt (rdna2) gpu not recognizable in Devuan Stable (Chimaera) » 2023-04-30 12:32:13

chomwitt
Replies: 1

In my Chimaera system i installed a new gpu amd 6950xt . And according to the  wikipedia it's rdna2 navi21 architecture codenamed Sienna Cichlid.
My Devuan PC boots but in a smaller resolution and dmesg doesnt contain any related message. Also no gpu driver seems loaded ( lspci )

My initial setup of related install .debs :
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu 19.1.0-2 installed but it doenst have new version backported .
firmware-amd-graphics 20210315-3 But there is a new version of the firmware backported.

So i installed :
firmware-amd-graphics 20230210-4~bpo11+1
In the firmware file it contains related firmware:
amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_ce.bin
But the issue remains.

I remember a Phoronix article on amdgpu changing the way it releases the firmware. In that case could it be that a newer version of amdgpu is also needed?

Also it seem to me strange that both versions of xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu support the same chip families.  I think there is something no rigth here. What is the relation of the driver and the firmware .debs? Can one support a family and not the other ?

Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
Version: 19.1.0-2
This package provides the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards. The
following chip families should be supported: Bonaire, Hawaii, Kaveri, Kabini
Mullins, Iceland, Tonga, Carrizo, Fiji, Stoney.

Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
Version: 23.0.0-1
This package provides the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards. The
following chip families should be supported: Bonaire, Hawaii, Kaveri, Kabini
Mullins, Iceland, Tonga, Carrizo, Fiji, Stoney.

Refs:

#178 Desktop and Multimedia » virt-manager 1:4.1.0-1 is broken in daedalus » 2022-10-13 09:05:16

chomwitt
Replies: 2

Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
After  doing :

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

$ virt-manager --debug
--if i try to 'open' the window of a virtual machine virt-manager
crashes with the following message:
(virt-manager:19736): libsoup-ERROR **: 08:54:50.904:
libsoup3 symbols detected. Using libsoup2 and libsoup3
in the same process is not supported.

$ sudo apt-cache policy virt-manager
virt-manager:
  Installed: 1:4.1.0-1
  Candidate: 1:4.1.0-1

how can i correct this?

I've checked https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/virt-manager
and bug reports upstream at the project's bug tracker
but i havent found something.
But in searching the interent i found arch related opened issues FS#75823 where the cause is said to be  libgovirt on which many applications depend

I've managed to connect to a running vm from the command line:
$ sudo virsh list --all
Id   Name               State
-----------------------------------
6    Hyperbola_min_vm   running
-    Devuan_vm          shut off

$ virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 6

So the issue in my case dont seem related to virt-viewer

#179 Re: Other Issues » Searching for gui utility with debtags support » 2022-07-16 23:09:02

I've just found  that package  packagesearch exist in devuan but not for my  daedalus  devuan.
Is to common for a package to be in unstable and stable and not  in testing ?

#180 Re: Off-topic » Lennart Poettering (Systemd) Lands at Microsoft After Leaving Red Hat » 2022-07-16 21:58:55

I thing we live in an era that foss land is attacked. Not exactly the whole word . One letter is attacked.
For me the attack was formely initiated the day RMS visited Redmond (what was on his mind??...) .
Days letter the web lynching of RMS started. Paidophile, autistic , dirty bearfoot hippy..etc.

The great irony?. The MIT scandal raised serious ethical questions about funding from malicious and unethical actors to institutions
that we prefer to envision as public and motivated by higher ideas. Education,  knowledge etc.

But the second greatest irony? Many Institutions in the foss land (SFC,Redhad,FSFE) aligned with MIT's heads  scapegoating agenda saw that as an opportunity
not to discuss the matter of ethical donatiions but disgracing publicly  RMS persona announcing to the plubs the new inclusive order of things.

In that new era.. Linus and Richard are in the social dysfunctional spectrum and in foss fora the new ideas of sponsor hunting and corporate friendliness have taken the sky..

HUGE piles of money (huge propably in our eyes for a big corp propably one medium scale strategy campaing.. for those uninitiated a study of how Uber conducts those affairs should be a good start up tutorial...)  and donations from SFC to OpenBSD  and Gnome have  been softening  the ground to let the new order bloosom.

Foss Newsites call us to be thankfull to our benovalent new masters in the fossland.

#181 Other Issues » Searching for gui utility with debtags support » 2022-07-16 21:26:19

chomwitt
Replies: 2

I've been familiarizing myself with debtags and the CLI command 'debtags'.

I found it helpfull and I wanted to ask if a GUI utility with debtags support , sth like packagesearch exist in devuan.

#182 Re: Installation » Getting out of Help menu in installer » 2022-07-14 15:40:58

Thank you.
I've created an installation video . I'll use that hint in future versions.

#183 Installation » Getting out of Help menu in installer » 2022-07-01 08:23:42

chomwitt
Replies: 2

Installing Devuan Chimaera's netinstall iso  in a qemu vm  i see the initial installation menu and choosed Help.
There by pressing  F keys  i can see various help menus but i cant find a way to return to
the main menu.
Also i tried to hit Enter to install but i get:
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

#184 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-27 23:46:50

Interestingly invocation section of man page of bash dont refer to profile.d .
So maybe it started as a distro practice that stuck  and now it's used a a global config-set up space ?
I found an interesting discussion here.

It seems that profile.d is used in some distros that use some shells that parse that folder for application specifics setups.

In my devuan installation:

/etc/profile.d$ ls
bash_completion.sh       flatpak.sh  gawk.sh      vte.csh  gawk.csh    vte-2.91.sh

But that wont work in a case like mine but only if libvirtd was reading some shell enviroment
variable to determine what net setup to enable when started.

So i guess profile.d is one way to setup an 'enviroment' for applications that would look to certain env variables.
If an app looks only to a config file profile.d it's not needed.

In my case i found first here  about a command that fixes
a network error in virt-manager. Now as @xinomilo told me that can be set either with a terminal command or a gui setting   that changes a relative setting.

I propably was unlucky finding only the first 'solution'  that make me understand that a command fixes an error . But now it seems it's just an application
setting that propably sitting in a config file and there are two ways to change that 'file' and propably to edit it by a text editor.
And maybe virt-manager shouldnt either report it as an error! That small detail could have put me into a different fix mentality and not in the 'config' mentality.

To sum it up. It was a setting issue masqueraded as a  pseudo 'correct functioning' issue.

#185 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-27 18:02:59

xinomilo wrote:
chomwitt wrote:

From where ? From general options or a VM options ? I didnt find anything.

Connection Options.
if you already connected virt-manager to local libvirtd : choose that (qemu:///system) connection and :
(menu) Edit -> Connection Details -> Virtual Networks tab -> choose network, and check "Autostart On Boot"  on network Details.

I found it. Thanks!

#186 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-27 17:57:44

Reading here https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/v … ofile.html
it seems that profile.d is for scripts that set up the shell enviroments.
So if i wanted to setup an application and it's initial set up i should do it from somewhere else.
But i've just read an askubuntu post where network config is attempted from a profile.d script.

#187 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-27 17:49:15

xinomilo wrote:

.. (you can also change this from virt-manager/GUI).

From where ? From general options or a VM options ? I didnt find anything.

#188 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-27 17:43:05

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Was the script executable?

Sorry, that was a stupid question. Files in /etc/profile.d/ are sourced rather than executed. D'oh!

That explains why other scripts in profile.d werent executable.

Generaly i realized that profile.d is for preparing the system wide enviroment (of bash only or more generally ?)
So a more sound approach would be to start libvirtd and then make sure the default networking is enabled .

#189 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-27 16:17:01

xinomilo wrote:

virsh is a libvirt client, so yes, libvirtd must be started in order for virsh to work..
although this https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=36441#p36441 makes your command unnecessary.. (you can also change this from virt-manager/GUI).

Yes i understand that. But i was curious to see if indeed a 'root' command can be executed in profile.d
So i could make the script wait and poll the processes and when libvirt is executed then to execute the command!

#190 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-27 14:03:09

I made it executable but still nothing.

#!/bin/sh

export TESTPROFILEDOTD=1970
virsh net-start default   &

The test var is changed but not the net default state.
I suspect that virt-manager and libvirtd process must have started first.

#191 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-26 17:47:33

@Head_on_a_Stick Thanks! that worked.
I wonder why thought the script in /etc/profile.d/enableqemunetworking.sh  didnt seem to work.

#192 Re: Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-26 17:16:01

MiyoLinux wrote:

Are you familiar with cron jobs? That's one way to do it. smile

I know it's purpose, not familiar but i'll manage.

I tried that so far:

$ less /etc/profile.d/enableqemunetworking.sh
#!/bin/sh
virsh net-start default   &

but didnt work..
@HeadonStick i try to enable qemu networking but the command only works with sudo.

#193 Other Issues » Running a privileged command at login. » 2022-06-26 16:45:33

chomwitt
Replies: 16

I'm using Devuan GNU/Linux 5 with runit.

I want to run a 'sudo' command at login. I guess it needs to be
started as a root command without having to provide a password.
How could i do that?

#194 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Does daedalus contain xfce4-screensaver ? » 2022-02-21 10:04:14

Ok. so i'll keep xscreensaver for now .

$ aptitude why xscreensaver
i   task-xfce-desktop Depends    xfce4                               
i A xfce4             Depends    xfce4-session (>= 4.16.0)           
i A xfce4-session     Recommends xscreensaver | light-locker | i3lock

#195 Desktop and Multimedia » Does daedalus contain xfce4-screensaver ? » 2022-02-18 07:14:33

chomwitt
Replies: 3

Goodmorning.

I cant find a similarly named package for the xfce4-screensaver utility :

$ sudo apt-cache search screensaver
boinc-screensaver - screen saver auto-controlling volunteer computing
cinnamon-screensaver - Cinnamon screen saver and locker
gnome-screensaver - Screensaver and screen lock formerly used in GNOME
mate-screensaver - MATE screen saver and locker
xscreensaver - Screensaver daemon and frontend for X11
...

#197 Desktop and Multimedia » Unpredictable screensaver » 2022-02-16 09:11:25

chomwitt
Replies: 3

Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus) (runit) Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0

Trying to figure out some unpredictable behavior on a fresh installation related among else  to screensaver (1)
i noticed that xsceensaver -systemd running . I wonder if that could create problems when systemd is not installed.

(1)
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=66137#p66137

#198 Off-topic » I managed to run 'The Red String Club' in Devuan Daedalus. » 2022-02-11 18:17:42

chomwitt
Replies: 0

The Red Strings Club (wikipedia) has definitely hit a string in me..
Not in terms of gameplay (it has some boring minigames) but in the atmosphere it creates.
Alas it's 386 binary and also depends on an old lib :libcrypto.so.1.0.0 and libssl.so.1.0.0 that i found them in a old ubuntu repo archive.
I have a screenshoot in my toot in mastodon with a link to detailed instructions.

Has anyone else played it?

#199 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xmonad doenst work » 2022-02-10 16:47:56

It seems there is an x-terminal-emulator.
As for the 'windows' key i'll need more time to search because my keyboard is a ergodox with custom mapping with no such key.

$ update-alternatives --display x-terminal-emulator
x-terminal-emulator - auto mode
  link best version is /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
  link currently points to /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
  link x-terminal-emulator is /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
  slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
/usr/bin/koi8rxterm - priority 20
  slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/koi8rxterm.1.gz
/usr/bin/lxterm - priority 30
  slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/lxterm.1.gz
/usr/bin/uxterm - priority 20
  slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/uxterm.1.gz
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper - priority 40
  slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/xfce4-terminal.1.gz
/usr/bin/xterm - priority 20
  slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1.gz

#200 Desktop and Multimedia » xmonad doenst work » 2022-02-10 15:54:30

chomwitt
Replies: 3

I have xfce as my main desktop and i wanted to try xmonad.

sudo apt-get install xmonad

I log out and in the login screen with F1 i choose as session xmonad.
But when i log in i see the same devuan default background with the text (xmonad session)
but nothing happens.
It's supposed to be able to launch a terminal with Alt + Shift + Enter.

System:
  Host: enoush2o Kernel: 5.15.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
    Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)

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