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Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (swarfendor437) — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:00:47 +0000

Thanks Head_on_a_Stick. Have done per your instructions - the confusion came about through a link someone else posted and that linked to similar layout for Debian Buster - hence the question. Your solution provided the answer. Just looked at packages that get installed with Cinnamon and as PulseAudio and rtkit are present by Lennart I have avoided installing. Such a shame Gnome devs are such Numpties! (Just been reading on articles for friend who wants to leave systemd behind for sysinit).

[Just as I was posting this my pc auto shutoff and rebooted - had a similar issue with CoolerMaster PSU earlier this year that got replaced under warranty. This is a thermaltake 650 W - the only other issue might be poor performing antisurge 8-way socket (unswitched) or the Ryzen 7 CPU getting a bit toasty creating thermal cutout!]

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:13:33 +0000

swarfendor437 wrote:

Would I edit with 'Buster' option?

Sorry, I don't understand the question but to install the non-free firmware /etc/apt/sources.list should look like this:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main contrib non-free

Then use

# apt update
# apt install firmware-misc-nonfree

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (swarfendor437) — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 22:44:28 +0000

My bad - sorry!

Would I edit with 'Buster' option?

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:58:11 +0000

I am not talking about the proprietary drivers. The open source nouveau drivers may need the proprietary NVIDA firmware (not driver) for them to work properly and provide hardware acceleration.

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (swarfendor437) — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:51:08 +0000

I can only speak of previous experience of using prorprietary drivers in the past ended up giving me a worse experience than Nouveau drivers. Even changing the rendering mode bit in Firefox didn't help either. No worries. I am quite happy with the way things are. If it changes I'll read up on it again. Thanks.

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:24:36 +0000

I really do think you want hardware rendering on your desktop even if KDE & LXQt don't nag you about it.

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (swarfendor437) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:43:50 +0000

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

swarfendor437 wrote:
If I add "non-free" sources, am I effectively adding proprietary blobs?
Only if you install anything from that component. Use vrms to check for any installed blobs in your system.
And as GlennW notes you might still need the proprietary firmware to achieve reasonable performance with your graphics card.

OK. Thanks for making it clear to me - time to remove Cinnamon DE. My Graphics card is working just fine in KDE. The only blobs I have on my other system currently in use for Work purposes has some specific MS Fonts and Proprietary licenced fonts needed for specialism I work in - KDE Font manager is easier to manage than messing around with ttf-mscorefonts-installer! And in respect of Proprietary Software I get better compatibility with SoftMaker Office for Linux over LibreOffice. Since using SoftMaker Office 2021, my workflow has increased tremendously - it is so much more logically laid out (backend wise) than M$. I was hoping to move completely from FerenOS to Devuan 3.0 for work purposes in a few weeks time. My main sticking point at the moment is a specialist package, Linux version - I will start a separate post for that.

Thanks for everyone's responses.

UPDATE - have removed Cinnamon DE and xfce - noticed that both of these had elements of pulse-audio whilst uninstalling via Synaptic Package Manager and one of them had the infamous real-time processor named rtkit - not a rootkit I know but a stupid naming convention by the author of pulseaudio (and author of systemd). So I now just have KDE and LXQt. Have marked this thread as [CLOSED].

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (GlennW) — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:36:51 +0000

I'm not positive that all of these are good for my system, but these are what I have, running old games (CS:S) with 3d rendering nVidia module.

using vrms... (I didn't know I could do this, thank you HoaS)

root@GamesBox:~# vrms
              Non-free packages installed on GamesBox

amd64-microcode                     Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
bluez-firmware                      Firmware for Bluetooth devices
firmware-amd-graphics               Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-intel-sound                Binary firmware for Intel sound DSPs
firmware-iwlwifi                    Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
firmware-linux                      Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
firmware-linux-nonfree              Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
firmware-misc-nonfree               Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
gawk-doc                            Documentation for GNU awk
libfaac-dev                         AAC audio encoder (development)
libfaac0                            AAC audio encoder (library)
openttd-opensfx                     sound set for use with the OpenTTD game
steam                               Valve's Steam digital software delivery system
steam-devices                       Device support for Steam-related hardware
unrar                               Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
  Reason: Modifications problematic

              Contrib packages installed on GamesBox

alsa-firmware-loaders               ALSA software loaders for specific hardware
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperfl PPAPI-host NPAPI-plugin adapter for pepperflash
glx-alternative-mesa                allows the selection of MESA as GLX provider
pepperflashplugin-nonfree           Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin
ttf-mscorefonts-installer           Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
update-glx                          utility for switching the GLX implementation

   Contrib packages with status other than installed on GamesBox

nvidia-installer-cleanup            ( dei)  cleanup after driver installation with the nvi

  15 non-free packages, 0.6% of 2605 installed packages.
  7 contrib packages, 0.3% of 2605 installed packages.

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:58:14 +0000

swarfendor437 wrote:

If I add "non-free" sources, am I effectively adding proprietary blobs?

Only if you install anything from that component. Use vrms to check for any installed blobs in your system.

And as GlennW notes you might still need the proprietary firmware to achieve reasonable performance with your graphics card.

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (GlennW) — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:07:28 +0000

You will still need "non-free" enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list for kde/plasma. Just append the string to the end of the uncommented lines... :-)

swarfendor437 wrote:

golinux wrote:
As HoaS Asked earlier . . . do you have "non-free" enabled in your sources.list?
I think I asked somewhere else about this too - If I add "non-free" sources, am I effectively adding proprietary blobs? If so I will just remove Cinnamon DE - I'm getting into the KDE groove at present.

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (swarfendor437) — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:57:17 +0000

golinux wrote:

As HoaS Asked earlier . . . do you have "non-free" enabled in your sources.list?

I think I asked somewhere else about this too - If I add "non-free" sources, am I effectively adding proprietary blobs? If so I will just remove Cinnamon DE - I'm getting into the KDE groove at present.

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:05:25 +0000

As HoaS Asked earlier . . . do you have "non-free" enabled in your sources.list?

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (swarfendor437) — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:47:04 +0000

Hi and thanks for your reply - haven't been ignoring you, been having internet issues which sadly appear to be down to my over-use of PowerLine Adapters interfering with the router!

Here is the result of that last command:

swarfendor437@devuan:~$ su
Password: 
root@devuan:/home/swarfendor437# apt install firmware-misc-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package firmware-misc-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'firmware-misc-nonfree' has no installation candidate
root@devuan:/home/swarfendor437#

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:12:38 +0000

Thank you. Note that the glxinfo command doesn't need root privileges so you should have just run it as your normal user: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle … _privilege

Now can we please see the output of this command:

# apt install firmware-misc-nonfree

^ That command does need root privileges (hence the # symbol in front of it).

Re: [CLOSED] Logging into Cinnamon DE reports in software render mode!

dummy@example.com (swarfendor437) — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 21:11:44 +0000

Hi Head_pm_a_Stick. Here is the output as requested:

root@devuan:/home/swarfendor437# glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
    Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
    Version: 18.3.6
    Accelerated: no
    Video memory: 16017MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 3.3
    Max compat profile version: 3.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0, 128 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00