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rolfie

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xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian PART TWO

@greenjeans: you got it.

I thought the doc is wrong and corrected my entry according to a correct deb822 syntax as used by Debian/Devuan where "Suites" stands for the release names and "Components" for main contrib ..... These "corrections" caused the release file issues.

When using your version, apt update works and my VM is getting the latest xlibre update. With one exception: xserver-xlibre-video-amdgpu. That is fixed when I run an

apt -t excalibur-backports install xserver-xlibre-video-amdgpu

Unfortunately, the VM is no more starting to the graphical display. I get a blinking cursor on a black screen, and a bar that might be something like a pattern from a text output where the pixels are not aligned. Same symptons I got with another test on Freia.

rolfie

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Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian PART TWO

Can that please be the last off-topic post in this thread that's supposed to be about display managers that work with both X and Wayland?

You are right, the xlibre stuff is sort of off-topic here. Please can you move that to e.g. https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7388?

greenjeans

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Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian PART TWO

So sorry, but one last off-topic post please then i'll quit:

@rolfie, take a look at this thread starting down about post #19, there is some info about your amdgpu issue, I had to not install it in the mate-mini or it would break completely. https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7389

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fsmithred

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Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian PART TWO

Apparently, I can only split off the posts that are on the same page into the same thread. To read the beginning of this thread, go to https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=8088

fsmithred

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Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian PART TWO

I switched to xlibre-debian a few months ago. At that time, there had not been any updates on xlibre-deb since the end of last year.

Here are the xlibre versions I have as of today (2026-07-09)

ii  x11proto-dev                         2025.1-1+xlibre1                             all          X11 extension protocols and auxiliary headers
ii  xlibre                               1:7.8+5                                      amd64        XLibre X Window System
ii  xlibre-archive-keyring               1.0.0-1                                      all          OpenPGP archive certificates of XLibre
ii  xlibre-x11-common                    1:7.8+5                                      all          X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
ii  xlibre-xutils                        1:7.8+5                                      all          X Window System utility programs metapackage
ii  xserver-xlibre                       1:7.8+5                                      amd64        XLibre X server
ii  xserver-xlibre-common                2:25.2.0-3                                   all          common files used by various X servers
ii  xserver-xlibre-core                  2:25.2.0-3                                   amd64        XLibre X server - core server
ii  xserver-xlibre-input-all             1:7.8+5                                      amd64        XLibre X server -- input driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xlibre-input-libinput        1:25.0.1-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- libinput input driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-all             1:7.8+5                                      amd64        XLibre X server -- output driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-amdgpu          25.1.1-3                                     amd64        XLibre X server -- AMDGPU display driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-ati             1:25.0.1-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- AMD/ATI display driver wrapper
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-fbdev           2:25.0.0-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- fbdev display driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-nouveau         2:25.0.0-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- Nouveau display driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-qxl             1:25.0.0-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- QXL display driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-radeon          1:25.0.1-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-vesa            2:25.0.0-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- VESA display driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-video-vmware          2:25.0.0-1                                   amd64        XLibre X server -- VMware display driver
ii  xserver-xlibre-xephyr                2:25.2.0-3                                   amd64        nested X server

greenjeans

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Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian PART TWO

Unfortunately, the VM is no more starting to the graphical display. I get a blinking cursor on a black screen, and a bar that might be something like a pattern from a text output where the pixels are not aligned.

Seen others mention it too. To add info to that other thread I posted, just updated the mate-mini iso that runs Xlibre, everything went great, but I still can't install the amdgpu package for some reason. Before it was a conflict, today it simply gives me an error message in Synaptic that it's aware of the package but can't find any contents basically, regardless of whether backports is enabled or not.

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fsmithred

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Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian PART TWO

I just upgraded an excalibur VM and it held back xserver-xlibre-video-amdgpu. I'm not sure if the old version I had was from xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian. There was a mix of packages so I finished upgrading to get all xlibre-debian - except that one package. I realized I didn't have backports enabled, and the instructions don't say which packages you need from backports. I think I figured it out. (the newer version installed without complaint)

apt -t excalibur-backports install mesa-common-dev mesa-libgallium mesa-vulkan-drivers
apt upgrade xserver-xlibre-video-amdgpu