Posts by aghasee

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Installed a non-realtek wifi antenna.

Marked as solved.

aghasee · Other Issues

I want it @ 5%

Devuan insists 100% after each reboot.

It's annoying.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

aghasee wrote:
Only driver installed is firmware-amd-graphics
Firmware != driver.
Did you install the relevant Realtek non-free firmware package as well?

No.
It gets installed by default.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

aghasee wrote:
it doesnt even try to connect
Did you remove the Tomas Pinho driver version? It might conflict or override the mainline version.

Clean install Chimaera. Only driver installed is firmware-amd-graphics from the official repo.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

aluma wrote:

I'll ask just in case.
Does the wireless regulatory domain match your country?

I guess so, but I'll check later today. Thanks.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

aghasee wrote:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
You should have installed the metapackage rather than an individual kernel. 5.18 is old now.
# apt install -t stable-backports linux-image-amd64
Even worse with 6.0xxx, it doesnt even try to connect.
Guess I'm gonna buy a new laptop w/o Realtek, or downgrade to windows, coz no linux distro I tried in the last few days gets the job done, systemd'd or not.

~# dpkg --list | grep linux-image
ii  linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64                   5.10.149-2                         amd64        Linux 5.10 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
ii  linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64                    5.10.70-1                          amd64        Linux 5.10 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
ii  linux-image-5.18.0-0.deb11.4-amd64            5.18.16-1~bpo11+1                  amd64        Linux 5.18 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
ii  linux-image-6.0.0-0.deb11.2-amd64             6.0.3-1~bpo11+1                    amd64        Linux 6.0 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
ii  linux-image-amd64                             6.0.3-1~bpo11+1                    amd64        Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

You should have installed the metapackage rather than an individual kernel. 5.18 is old now.
# apt install -t stable-backports linux-image-amd64

Even worse with 6.0xxx, it doesnt even try to connect.

Guess I'm gonna buy a new laptop w/o Realtek, or downgrade to windows, coz no linux distro I tried in the last few days gets the job done, systemd'd or not.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Ok. New install, nonfree and backports enabled.

Available kernels:

dpkg --list | grep linux-image
ii  linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64                   5.10.149-2                         amd64        Linux 5.10 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
ii  linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64                    5.10.70-1                          amd64        Linux 5.10 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
ii  linux-image-5.18.0-0.deb11.4-amd64            5.18.16-1~bpo11+1                  amd64        Linux 5.18 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
ii  linux-image-amd64                             5.10.149-2                         amd64        Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)

Only driver I did install extra is firmware-amd-graphics from the official repo.

Now running

uname -r
5.18.0-0.deb11.4-amd64

WiFi card is recognised, but has very poor reception (sitting right next to the router). Fails to login to the network. Bluetooth non functional. USB tethering works a charm.

lspci -v
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
	DeviceName: Realtek Chopard RTL8821CE 802.11ac 1x1 +BT 4.2 M.2 2230 PCI-e+USB WW
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 63, IOMMU group 9
	I/O ports at f000 [size=256]
	Memory at fce00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [148] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-c8-21-01
	Capabilities: [158] Latency Tolerance Reporting
	Capabilities: [160] L1 PM Substates
	Capabilities: [170] Precision Time Measurement
	Capabilities: [17c] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0003 Rev=1 Len=054 <?>
	Kernel driver in use: rtw_8821ce
	Kernel modules: rtw88_8821ce

Where do I go from here?

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Which kernel are you running? I've had good experiences with Larry's drivers but I don't have an 8821CE.

No results.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

aghasee wrote:
Tried with other kernels
Devuan's stable-backports repository has >6, have you tried that? Newer is probably better for that card, upstream is on v6.0.10 at the moment.
There are also some driver parameters that can be tweaked to aid performance:
# tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtw8821ce.conf >/dev/null <<!
options rtw88_pci disable_aspm=y
options rtw88_core disable_lps=y
!
# update-initramfs -u -k all
# reboot
^ The tee command creates a file at /etc/modprobe.d/rtw8821ce.conf that disables ASPM & Deep PowerSaving, which might help maintain the connection. Delete the file & run update-initramfs -u -k all again if it doesn't help.

Iirc it was 6.0.9 amongst others I tried.

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Which kernel are you running? I've had good experiences with Larry's drivers but I don't have an 8821CE.
EDIT: please add "RTL8821CE" to the thread title (edit the first post), it will aid SEO and may attract the attention of others who use the device under Devuan.

5.10 something. Current Cimaera bog standard.
Tried with other kernels to no avail.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Entering the card name into a search engine and adding "Linux" gives some useful results, for example:
https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?id … -17aa-c024
Devuan's stable release is currently on kernel 5.10 so you should be fine as long as you install the firmware for the card.

Currently I have the tomaspinho version installed. The card works err, somewhat. VERY poor reception and totally unreliable.

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

It is! Larry Finger will have you covered if it isn't in the kernel.
My crystal ball says the OP has an RTL8852 of some description. Let's see if I'm correct...

RTL8821CE...

aghasee · Hardware & System Configuration

Is it even possible?

aghasee · Other Issues

Going to mark this solved, even though it isn't.
Dual boot machine: Win7 runs flawless.
I'm at a loss here, I don't have the time or the capability to keep on tinkering.
Not even pursuing specialties of any kind: internet, e-mail, text processor, photo viewer and a media player/dlna-server, thats it.
I want my machine to just work.
One more clean offline install.
Maybe /not/ updating will do the trick?

Anyway, thanks for your time and effort all.

aghasee · Other Issues

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Check your RAM health.

Ran a check for 5 hrs, no errors.

aghasee · Other Issues

Andre4freedom wrote:

Is your GNOME desktop running in "fallback" mode?
If yes, make sure your graphics controller is supported or install the non-free firmware drivers. Gnome needs 3D acceleration.
It's just my thought, but possibly off-track.
Good luck.

I'm running Gnome on this very hardware since at least 2015; first under Debian, now under Devuan. Problems started only a week ago.
From what I'm reading fallback has been dropped for quite a while now, can't find the setting on my machine anyway.

As for top and iotop; I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

aghasee · Other Issues

Hello all,

For about a week now, my computer is running very sluggish, with a lot of Windows-like disk access, delays while typing...
Every now and then the system freezes completely, to the point of having to perform a hard power off.
System is updated and there were no recent installs/uninstalls.

From what I can see, there is no excessive RAM, processor or swap usage.
Disk utility does not report disk failures of any kind (disks are what, 6 months old?)
Initially I suspected Brave browser, but switching to Firefox does not solve anything.

Specs:
Intel Core2quad cpu, 8GB RAM
Beowulf 3 clean install
Gnome DE, gdm3, with tracker-miner disabled.

Any of you knowledgeable ppl care to point me in the right direction?

TIA,

aghasee · Other Issues

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Try this:
rm ~/.xsession-errors
nautilus
Then check ~/.xsession-errors after Nautilus launches.
EDIT: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … ing-buster

~/.xsession-errors

doesn't even show up anymore after replicating the problem.
I changed

~/.cache/tracker/

to

~/.cache/tracker.old

rebooted and the problem seems to be gone for now.

Maybe killing the tracker process as in https://www.noulakaz.net/2019/04/09/dis … t-need-it/ isn't a bad idea.

aghasee · Other Issues

PedroReina wrote:

aghasee wrote:
Anyone an idea where to start looking?
Have you tried to start Nautilus from a terminal? May be some message there.

Terminal sits there and is processing. No messages.
During the five min. delay there are two nautilus instances showing in system monitor, one with memory allocated and one which looks dead.

aghasee · Other Issues

Hello all,

Devuan Beowulf on encrypted LVM. Gome DE (gdm3).
After boot and/or logon nautilus needs some five minutes to start. Once started it works fine.
Tried installing Thunar which doesn't present this problem.
Problem persists on different hardware.

It's merely an annoyance, but I'd like to have it solved.
Anyone an idea where to start looking?

TIA,

aghasee · Installation

And please also note that those packages are still marked for autoremoval so you should attend to that unless you don't want them.

I'll read up first on this autoremove thing, b/c I'm a bit of an idiot in this Linux arena.
Anyway, my system is complete _and_ in perfect working order, so for now I,ll leave them where they are.

Again; thanks a million for your help!

aghasee · Installation

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The aptitude command auto-autoremoves so you may have removed a metapackage that depends on those packages. See also http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=104157
Why did you install the backported libpcsclite1 package anyway? It's usually best to stick to the stable versions whenever possible.

Is it possible the eid-archive package installed this libpcsclite1 package? The eid-archive I downloaded from the government website and installed it with dpkg.
I don't recall installing individual packages anyway.

Now I did try

apt install -t beowulf-backports pcscd

and it just went on without any further input:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libappstream-glib8 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libfwupd2 libgcab-1.0-0 libsmbios-c2 libssl1.0.2 libtss2-esys0 libtss2-udev
  libxmlb1 python3-distro-info python3-software-properties tpm2-abrmd tpm2-tools unattended-upgrades
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  systemd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pcscd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
Need to get 96,9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 206 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Then I did apt-get update and

apt-get install eid-mw eid-viewer

And IT WORKS! This is brilliant! Many thanks for helping me out.

What intrigues me however is why the system suggests installing systemd?

aghasee · Installation

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

aghasee wrote:
root@portable:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt -s -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes pcscd
E: Command line option 's' [from -s] is not understood in combination with the other options.
Oops, sorry:
apt -s -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes install pcscd
And please use code tags when posting terminal output (as I have added to your quotes), it greatly aids readability.
EDIT: ah, I see the problem — you have the backported version of the libpcsclite1 dependency installed so you need the backported pcscd version:
# apt install -t beowulf-backports pcscd
Or try aptitude instead, that would probably offer to upgrade pcscd from beowulf-backports.

The aptitude cmd returns a bunch of items to be removed...

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libappstream-glib8{u} libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3{u} libaprutil1-ldap{u} libfwupd2{u} libgcab-1.0-0{u} libsmbios-c2{u} libssl1.0.2{u} 
  libtss2-esys0{u} libtss2-udev{u} libxmlb1{u} python3-distro-info{u} python3-software-properties{u} tpm2-abrmd{u} tpm2-tools{u} 
  unattended-upgrades{u}

I hit 'no' for an answer for the moment...

aghasee · Installation

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

aghasee wrote:
eid-mw : Depends: pcscd but it is not going to be installed
eid-viewer : Depends: pcscd but it is not going to be installed
Well the package is there. What happens if you try to install it manually?
# apt install pcscd
If the error message is non-informative then debug the resolver:
apt -s -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes pcscd

This is what I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pcscd : Depends: libpcsclite1 (= 1.8.24-1+devuan1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@portable:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt -s -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes pcscd
E: Command line option 's' [from -s] is not understood in combination with the other options.
root@portable:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt policy libpcsclite1
libpcsclite1:
  Installed: 1.8.26-3~bpo10+1
  Candidate: 1.8.26-3~bpo10+1
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.26-3~bpo10+1 100
        100 [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] beowulf-backports/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.8.24-1+devuan1 500
        500 [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] beowulf/main amd64 Packages
     1.8.13-1+vua1 500
        500 [url]http://archive.devuan.org/merged[/url] jessie/main amd64 Packages

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