Hello:

Ahh ...
Therein lies the difference.

ie:
Devuan [stable] is now Excalibur, released 2025-11-02.
As a consequence, Daedalus is now [oldstable].

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Right on the dot you are.
Wine has nothing to do with how Linux works, so this is really not the place to ask.

Here: https://forum.winehq.org/viewforum.php?f=8

I fully understand what you are referring to and am currently suffering some of it. (I run IrfanView and Pegasus Mail)
But I doubt that it is something that can easily be done.

Each and every MS application does [whatever] within (as you say) the MS ecosystem but Wine does not provide an ecosystem.
ie: it is not an emulator so it does not emulate an MS ecosystem: it just gives each of the applications the shit they need to work in Linux.

At least that is what I think I understood.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Welcome to Devuan.

Right.

The problem you have is a BIOS related hardware / Windows installation problem.
If you don't need it, you may be able to fix it by clearing out the Windows installation.
ie: full HDD format.

Or maybe boot the machine without the HDD, if possible.
Otherwise, you need the key if you want access to the Elitebook/HDD as it is.

The previous owner of the Elitebook may have the key.
Or you may be able to recover it from the Windows installation.

See here:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/i … 6600360-16

The Devuan install on the USB is not at fault.
The problem is the MS/HP arranged protection racket in the HDD. 8^°

Best,

A.

Hello:

All information is useful.
Information is power.

Quite so.
Seeing it solved made me realise just how annoying it was.
Thanks again.

Indeed.
Makes two of us.
Now let's see what management opines.

[OT]
My $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/Fonts/ directory has now gone from being barren/empty to having one *.ttf.
Something tells me that there should be more fonts there as some system and menu legends don't look so good.
What should I populate it with?
[/OT]

Best,

A.

Hello:

I started to use Wine when I moved permanently to Linux.

Before that, I double booted Linux and XPSP3 solely because of my long time email client: David Harris' Pegasus Mail which I have used since W3.11.

Being able to use Wine/Pegasus Mail was the deal breaker.

Once I got Wine running on Linux (Ubuntu? Mint? CrunchBang? cannot recall), that was it, no more XP.
I do recall that one distribution (Mint?) included a very easy to install Wine package in their repositories.
Once installed, everything was in place and worked right out-of-the-box, installing a Windows application was a breeze.

I have had Wine in every distribution since then and have had it running on Linux Devuan since Jesse, ca. 2017.
No mayor problems to speak of. A bonus to all that was that I did not have to ditch my all time favourite photo application: Irfan Skiljan's Irfan View.

That's about it.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Welcome to Dev1.

Open a terminal and run this:

$ xset -q

In a section labelled [Screen Saver:] you will see the working settings.
I understand that they override all other settings.

See [man xset] for details on how to set them.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Bear in mind that normal is a statistical term.
ie: conforming to a generalised pattern, known mean or median.

An expected average, if you will.

Up to a few years ago, if you purchased any Kingston memory product, you could rest assured that you had a quality product in you hands.
That was the normal in those days, Kingston = Quality.

Unfortunately, that is no longer the case and given what the chip market is going through due to the A1 delirium, things will not get better.
Quite the contrary, prices are rising steadily and the quality of consumer memory products are decaying.

If interested, see what happened when I puchased a set of three Kingston DataTraveler Exodia M USB 3.2 USB drives without noticing that there was no data sheet included or printed inside the cardboard blister as usual.

TL;DR

The reference is to the inexistent data Kingston included in the package.

You don't post the specifics (Kingston part #) of the drives you are using but I suggest you do a search on the web for any of the sites* that publish tests as well as any specs Kingston may have published in their web page.
* one is ssd-tester.com, there are others.

You could also run a benchnmark test on the drives via the [gnome-disk-utility] which is accurate enough to give you an idea as to what is going on.
You will probably have to clear / reformat the drive to test it properly.

Edit:
See this test at Tom's Hardware.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Kernel 6.17 is Sid/Ceres unstable.

You may need to install the microcode package from the non-free firmware repository
ie: http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/non-free-firmware amd64

Q: is it in your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
See here: https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … 1.84.38.37

If that does not solve the issue, it may(?) be due to the box being ca. 2012 and having a BIOS issue.

Best,

A.

Hello:
Welcome to Dev1.

I fear that while you have supplied some data, it is not enough for anyone to be able to help you.
To start, what base Devuan release you are using.
I would assume Daedalus (?), but that is just me assuming.
ie: the output of

~$ uname -a

Then, the brand/model of the docking station would be one very important bit.
Also, if you are using the PS/cables supplied for the docking station or are using a different PS or other non-OEM cables; it can be a problem if the cables are not the excat spec the docking station requires.

Then comes the proof of life, so to speak:
The [dmesg] printout with the docking station and monitors in place and powered on.
That would give us an idea of what is going on with the docking station / monitors as your Thinkpad boots.

BTW: please make sure you use the proper [tags] when posting the dmesg output. 
eg:

--- snip ---
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU106GLM [Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] (rev 02)
--- snip ---

Something you may want to consider trying (to rule out any Artix Plasma issues) is to boot a Devuan Live *.iso and see how it goes.

Best,

A.

Hello:

See here.

This is what is available from the repositories.

Two archived versions and one in testing/unstable.

No idea why it is not in the Debian repository (but not being there is the main reason it is not in the Devuan repository).
Maybe Debian has some temporary beef with VirtualBox till they can move it to a stable release?
Who knows ...

I use this version downloaded from the VirtualBox repository:

virtualbox-7.0/now 7.0.20-163906~Debian~bullseye amd64 [installed,local]

# virtual box repository x installation
# deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ bullseye non-free contrib 
# deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ bookworm non-free contrib 

Just in case, I have not updated it as it works fine as it is.
But then I don't use it for anything complicated. ie: a server or such.
Most important thing I run at every boot is a headless Chimaera VM for PiHole+Unbound, no issues to speak of.

There's also an XPSP3 VM and a stock untouched (save updates/upgrades) Daedalus VM which I bring up when needed.
Like I said, no issues to speak of.

Best,
A.

Edit:
Here you go --> https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox

Hello:

Got a reply after a few days.
As expected, nothing new, just the obvious:

As you can gather, my specific question was *not* answered.
ie: just what does [TRIM] do on a HDD (spinning rust)?

Further on there is a link which takes me to a page that does not have a link to the only WD document* with some information on what I wanted to know albeit with no clear answer.
* It is linked to on my previous post.

So no, no surprises here.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Ahh ...
Should have known.

The description was the giveaway.

So that makes two of us.

Please ...

Like I said: the end is near.

Best,

A.