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I have been working on Beta and Beta2 for a while. Thank you to all you people for your work.
I always use expert install from devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_beta2_amd64_netinstall.iso
Standard XFCE instalation was fine, with the already said glitches about locales and tzdata. Not big deal.
Then I tried KDE install and it was fine: KDE is far more usable on low specs computer with Beowulf than with Stretch. But the instaler put on the drive both KDE and XFCE. This is a bug, IMHO.
Then I went to my real test: from a minimal install going installing just what I want, without metapackages, avoiding possible unwanted packages. I did two tries:
First try was what I already do succesfully with Devuan 2 ASCII: from expert netinstall, not choose any software nor configure apt, and do it after instalation. I could not finish that way because the system installed missed important packages, as the dhcp client.
Second try, from expert netinstall also, I choose configure apt, but not marking any task at all: the installed system had standard XFCE. Another bug, IMHO.
I'm stuck now. Do you have any advice about how to get a very minimal setup workable? It is top priority now for me, as I'm going to install ASAP Beowulf on a work computer for my wife to use her brand new Wacom tablet, so I'm able to work on this as much as needed.
Thanks to all of you.
It is new enough that the Devuan_jessie software can't find the ethernet driver.
Is an aceptable option for your setup using a more up to date Devuan version?
That's the way it was invented and had to be used in the olden days of Unix already.
I agree with you. I like customizing my workplace and I override this classic behaviour. Since around 1999, I change all the profile files of Bash so I just need "su" to get evething in place. I love freedom!
Wouldn't an integrated email client be a good thing for LibreOffice?
The grandpa of LibreOffice, StarOffice, had a e-mail client called StarMail. So, it get lost in some version from StarOffice to OpenOffice to LibreOffice.
My mom actually still uses Thunderbird.
I'm using version 2.0. Inherited all my mail from Netscape Mail. No problems so far.
first time here ... Dell Mini 9
Welcome to the forum. Nice machine you have!
Looking forward for any answer to this question. I used time ago IceWM, still like it, and thought that is a good idea implement in IceWM the XDG menu structure. When I used IceWM, I edited their menu by hand.
Forgive me for being such a jerk.
You are not
It just happens that you like Amarok. Like a lot of people. This is about free software.
I use TDE on a daily basis. It's pretty comfortable and full featured DE
Your opinion is important to me. Thank you very much for sharing. I'm using Devuan ASCII with XFCE, but definitely I will try Beowulf with TDE.
still not sure how to go on with the Desktop Environment; ... KDE + LXQT is certainly a interesting match
Have you tried Trinity? It is in my "to try" list.
You can read about it here:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2158
I should have said devuan refracta10 nodbus as fsmithred mentions in previous post.
Thank you. On desktops I'm using now XFCE, so I will need dbus. But for a minimal server your work seems very promising. I'll study it as soon as I can.
i dont use elogind or consolekit, ive been using devuan with no dbus and it runs great for what i need.
That seems very interesting to me. Could you, please, elaborate on it? May be a link or a new thread? Thank you.
Maybe there's a way to set the second firefox to use something other than ~/.mozilla to store its files.
Profiles:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc … e_profiles
I think that may be helpful an initial URL with the first basic instructions.
at some point what is the purpose of the biological person behind the phone?
See ads, then buy goods. Sad.
And when you remove pulse it's unfortunate you have to have a un-usable mixer in Xfce menu, just wasting space lol. When all you needed was a terminal for alsamixer.
The packages volumeicon-alsa and gnome-alsamixer worked for me in your issue. I dont need the Pulse Audio mixer in XFCE.
Debian on old boxes, Devuan on the new ones. No other distro to work, but I like to try others for fun. At work we have MAX, a Spanish distro based on Ubuntu with Mate desktop.
it display a bunch of '07 07 07....' on the screen, no grub menu.
Strange enough, it seems a LILO problem to me.
From https://www.linux.org/threads/linux-lin … tup.10146/
L – First stage of the boot loader has finished and has been unable to load the second stage. This usually indicates bad BIOS parameters or bad sectors on the media or even a corruption of the boot loader. The letter is usually followed by an error code as follows:
07 – Invalid initialization – BIOS did not initialize the boot disk
Installation is working
Glad to know
Diff-ing two 700 MB disc images is relatively memory intensive.
Agreed.
I want to teach myself C and I figure I'll extra RAM will come in handy for when I screw up and a process eats O(n) memory in O(n) time...
I have no direct experience about this, but this info could be relevant: http://coldattic.info/post/40/
I'm mostly self-taught ... My hope is to get a job as a C programmer
So, be prepared to the more bizarre behaviour of your programs (I've been there)
On topic, I opted to install the DVD ... in a few minutes and let you know if I have any errors.
Looking forward. Best luck
The merge have perfect meaning in 2019, IMHO. Please remember why some split was needed in the first place and think about it with the hardware resources we have nowadays:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busy … 74114.html
I only have 4 GB
I don't know the uses you are planning for you computer, but in my use cases 4 GB is a lot of memory. (I'm kind of a heavy user).
My main laptop has 1 GB and run Devuan ASCII 64 bits very easily.
Here's the key error from your log:
Agreed.
Ensure you have the correct firmware extracted from the script
I did it a few times. And downloaded the file from somewhere, but all the md5 hashes matched, so I think that the file is the correct one.
perhaps download the latest Win-OS driver
I think that this could be exactly the root of the issue. At stated at https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ … 028/XC2028,
The Xceive firmware has an internal version number; the newest of which, to the best of
knowledge, is version 2.7, for xc2028/xc3028 and version 3.6 for the low power variants (xc3028l).
In theory, this particular firmware can be the same one that is used for all xc3028 based devices.
However, in practice, there are some devices that might require an older firmware version
(e.g. this is the case with the tm6000 based 10moons device, which requires firmware version 1.e).
If you happen to know that the Windows ".sys" driver file for your device is supplied with a version
2.7 firmware, then in all likelihood you can use the perl script above (which extracts the firmware
from the specific hcw85bda.sys file), and this should work properly for your device...of course,
not many end users are going to know that information. So, without further theoretical explanations,
the bottom line is that you should just try the above method first, and, if that proves to be unsuccessful,
then proceed to try to figure out the reason why.
So, I tried to find somewhere the file hcw85bda.sys to extract the firmware, but could not find it. Interesting fact: the previous owner of the computer had the analog tuner working with the original OS, but when in our country TV went digital, it stoped working and he needed the help of Toshiba technicians to download and install new drivers. I keep the old HDD with a fresh install of the former OS, but the file hcw85bda.sys is not there, for sure. I've been searching for it a lot of time before posting, with no success.
You also mentioned you didn't/don't have the directory /dev/dvb, try creating that manually and rerun the extraction script to see if it puts the various firmware blobs in the correct place.
I have just manually create the directory with mkdir /dev/dvb and reboot the computer, but then the directory had gone! (Really, I'm not drinking)
Thank you again, Dutch_Master.
ASCII, desktop live.
I would try standard Devuan ASCII instalation.
see if the kernel already knows about your tuner ... you'll only need firmware to get it operational
Yes, kernel knows and firmware are in place. You can see the logs in https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-med … 50597.html.
If it doesn't show up, there's no easy way of getting your tuner to work I'm afraid.
This is the very reason I'm stuck: I get errors loading the firmware.
Thank you, Dutch_Master.
Hi everyone.
I'm trying to get working the Conexant CX23418 DVB-T tuner found in my Toshiba Qosmio G30 computer. I can't. I think that is a kernel related issue, not an specific Devuan one. So, I'm posting in Off-topic.
I thought, reading https://www.linuxtv.org/lists.php, that the linux-media mailing list could be the right place to ask, so I suscribed and sent a message. But I got no answer.
So, any of you can point me another place to ask? Or may be a suggestion to keep digging?
Thanks.