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#1 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Forge OS » 2024-04-03 21:24:28
in case someone just wants the scripts:
https://gitlab.com/_alphalpha_/forge-dotfiles
some of them are actually somewhat good
maybe the devuan team is interested in this one that shows all the licenses
there is also a yad script to modify the mirrorlist but that one would need at least some finetuning
i also have this function called awk-menu.sh that i used to make some advanced cli menus
mount_menu.sh is one of the better ones, but the mainstream is not ready for it yet 
(this menu is more powerfull than dialog or all the other stuff because it can assing custom keybindings for every menu,
but it is a little tricky and could need some improvements)
#2 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Forge OS » 2024-04-01 15:52:31
The last version was pretty rough,
there was a typo in grub
the script to set the time and date broke
network would not connect automatically
and some other stuff
i think i fixed it all this time
this is the final version.
#3 Re: Other Issues » 2 CPU threads went offline and wont come back » 2024-02-20 14:09:45
thx Altoid
whatever the cause was,
a fresh install will fix it, no big deal for me 😹
#4 Re: Other Issues » 2 CPU threads went offline and wont come back » 2024-02-18 18:01:22
with the live cd, chcpu -r still does not work, but -e 2 and -d 2 are working
local uname -a
Linux x 6.1.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.69-1 (2023-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linuxlive uname -a
Linux forge 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1 (2023-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux#5 Re: Other Issues » 2 CPU threads went offline and wont come back » 2024-02-18 17:32:34
chcpu -r
chcpu: This system does not support rescanning of CPUs#6 Re: Other Issues » 2 CPU threads went offline and wont come back » 2024-02-18 16:52:08
2 cores with 2 threads
lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Off-line CPU(s) list: 2,3
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz
CPU family: 6
Model: 58
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 9
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 37%
CPU max MHz: 3600.0000
CPU min MHz: 0.0000
BogoMIPS: 5787.10
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflus
h dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ar
ch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni p
clmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_
1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cp
uid_fault epb pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid f
sgsbase smep erms xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
Virtualization features:
Virtualization: VT-x
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 64 KiB (2 instances)
L1i: 64 KiB (2 instances)
L2: 512 KiB (2 instances)
L3: 4 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 1
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1
Vulnerabilities:
Gather data sampling: Not affected
Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
L1tf: Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Mds: Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Meltdown: Mitigation; PTI
Mmio stale data: Unknown: No mitigations
Retbleed: Not affected
Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines, IBPB conditional, IBRS_FW, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS No
t affected
Srbds: Vulnerable: No microcode
Tsx async abort: Not affectedit has nothing to do with the BIOS, since it works with a live cd
#7 Other Issues » 2 CPU threads went offline and wont come back » 2024-02-18 16:24:32
- alphalpha
- Replies: 9
Hey All,
not shure what i did this time...
i just noticed in htop, that 2 of my 4 CPU threads are offline
lscpu | grep 'CPU(s)' -m3
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Off-line CPU(s) list: 2,3i tried chcpu as su -
chcpu -e 2
chcpu: CPU 2 enable failed: Operation not permittedif i boot a live cd, all CPUs are working and chcpu also works
i tried an older kernel but that was not the problem
EDIT: i already tried restarting the pc 
EDIT 2: 🎵
#8 Re: DIY » So I guess there's no getting around having to use GTK3 and Wayland? » 2023-11-25 23:19:22
sorry but this thread has less substance than my breakfast that i did not have
why is wayland bad and what is the problem with gtk3?
dont get me wrong, i would prefer if everything would work with motif and xenocara, but i understand the drama
#9 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Forge OS » 2023-11-01 13:45:21
wow this took waaay longer than i planned
but it is finally here: Forge v2023-11
this may very well be the final version
i definetly need a break from this project
and i dont know when or if i will return
with that out of the way, here are the news:
boot time reduced by 10%
improved user friendliness
files on the desktop (jwm)
more from the good things
less bad things
all new and shiny
overall smoothness increased by 200%
hotness also increased by a factor of 10
the price stayed the same 
since dbus is now dependency-chained to xorg, i had to pin seatd to chimaera
as always this is experimental software, i am not a porfessional, use at you own risk
but i think it works pretty well on 10 year old hardware
#10 Re: DIY » Question, about dd and/or qemu, for disk cloning » 2023-09-15 23:14:21
you can copy the whole disc and then shrink the qcow
#11 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » What games do you play on Devuan?? » 2023-09-15 23:10:07
https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1855605
the final nail in microsofts coffin
#12 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2023-09-15 22:28:52
guess whos back
#13 Re: Off-topic » We all aware the interweb is problematic, deranged, imbalanced. » 2022-11-06 15:01:20
this is not your personal blog
how this thread is still up is beyond me
the only way, the internet goes poof is when there is a power outage
no low-level tools will help you in that case
#15 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » undesireable Motherboard config changes to time and fan settings » 2022-05-20 20:14:18
Now this is not a fix for the cause, but it could fix the fan problem if it is an option for you...
I once had a problem with a pc that the cpu fan would always run at 100% speed,
this was a problem with coreboot and had nothing to do with linux or the system time,
but i could fix the fan issue with a cheap fan controller board that measures temperatur and powers the fan, independent from the system.
Its not pretty, it does not fix the cause, but the fan works how it should.
#16 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Forge OS » 2022-04-14 14:54:16
There is no complete list of changes, but here are the highlights:
alacritty replaced urxvt
lossless-cut replaced vidcutter
antimicrox replaced qjoypad
yt-dlp replaced youtube-dl
magnifiqus replaced xzoom
qps is the default task manager again
new emulators: visualboyadvance-m, bsnes and bsnes-plus
Cardinal as new virtual modular synthesizer lv2-plugin
there was a bug in the installer that got fixed
/usr/local/bin/datetime.sh now has a '--auto' option, to automatically set the system time
some scripts in the jwm menu got fixed and i added new ones (set date format, change conky color and toggle to maximize all windows)
syslinux bootloader now looks for the symlink /boot/vmlinuz, it will update automatically when a new kernel is installed (/etc/kernel/postinst.d/yy-bootlink)
OBS will now start, if your pc does not support GLSL >3.3
other new applications are zbarcam-qt to scan qr-codes and crazydiskinfo to check s.m.a.r.t parameters
qutebrowser will delete .local/share/qutebrowser/webengine before it starts, this prevents a rare case where it will always freeze
conky will now only show battery and wifi info, if those are present on your system
more changes can be seen here https://gitlab.com/_alphalpha_/forge-do … cd98499bd1
#17 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Forge OS » 2022-04-01 08:39:48
if you are using jwm, there is a theme option in the right-click menu
if you do mean the darkpurple/orange theme, that is still there
or do you mean the terminal theme?
i am not really shure which theme yoou want
i did change the qt theme from yaru to adapta, because yaru looked different in chimaera
the gtk theme has always been snowblind-sunset
if you can tell me exactly what you are looking for or have a screenshot, i will see what i can do
#18 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2022-03-19 23:24:14
#19 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Backported kernel update » 2022-03-19 22:02:20
why not use the standard kernel?
sudo apt install -t chimaera linux-image-amd64#20 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Forge OS » 2022-03-11 18:22:12
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The old isos are no longer available,
Forge is basically the same, but upgraded to chimaera and with improvements on the installer and other scripts
if you are looking for a specific script or config file, you can find them here on gitlab
#21 Documentation » HOWTO: Manual Wifi roaming multiple networks (no network-manager) » 2022-03-05 14:22:06
- alphalpha
- Replies: 1
In this guide, I want to show how to manually setup your wireless lan connection, so your laptor automatically connects to the network nearby.
If you are using the network-manager service, you don't need any of this.
1 - make sure '/etc/network/interfaces' contains the following lines, where wlan0 in this case is the name of the network adapter
iface default inet dhcp
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf2 - if you don't have '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ', create it and make sure only root can acces it because it will contain your passwords
sudo touch /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo chown root:root /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo chmod 600 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf3 - to get the stanza's for your network, copy the output of the following command to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_passphrase 'YOUR ACCESSPOINT' 'YOUR PASSWORD'Here is an example how /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf should look.
For networks that use the same ESSID, add the mac address and optional a priority.
# for documentation see:
# less /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples/wpa-roam.conf
# zless /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz
# zless /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.modes.gz
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=netdev
#ap_scan=1
update_config=1
# Home
network={
bssid=AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA
ssid="Foo"
#psk="12345678"
psk=15af1abdaa5ea8efaa1d28551496c934f5e7183f426b444dd1c33d679501cb11
priority=7
}
# Upstairs
network={
bssid=BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB
ssid="Foo"
#psk="88888888"
psk=02dee96ae4492999724eb74f23bacac61a111f5a7f53c89bd83eba764a5d904f
priority=5
}
# Office
network={
ssid="Office"
#psk="88888888"
psk=166f4b50fafb6cb5c63e5ebf9b35b2171da85f7c554e787c10fef654abba3a16
}#22 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » qtsystems5-dev » 2022-02-02 12:13:27
apt show qtsystems5-dev
Package: qtsystems5-dev
Version: 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: qtsystems-opensource-src (5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4)
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 265 kB
Depends: libqt5publishsubscribe5 (= 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3), libqt5serviceframework5 (= 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3), libqt5systeminfo5 (= 5.0~git20181230.e3332ee3-4+b3), qtbase5-dev
Homepage: https://www.qt.io/developers
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Download-Size: 50.6 kB
APT-Sources: https://ftp.fau.de/devuan/merged chimaera/main amd64 Packagesi have it on chimaera
maybe you have to enable backports
#23 Re: Off-topic » Boot iso from hard disk » 2022-01-11 14:36:32
You could use a mini pci-e to usb card, if you have a free slot
There are also cards that can take two micro sd cards
#24 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-29 19:37:47
i have some disc shaped magnets here 
#25 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave » 2021-12-27 18:25:36
DEB packages of version 78.15.0 are available at:
http://packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/pool/main/i/icecat/
I announced them yesterday night in the irc channel. It looks good in chimaera:
is this a fork of icecat?
according to https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/, the last version is 60.7.0 and was realeased june 2019
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/60.7.0/
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