The officially official Devuan Forum!

You are not logged in.

#1 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problems with i3wm » 2021-05-08 07:57:35

Thanks for your feedback. I think I'm going to start again from scratch... I agree with you re. using Pulseaudio. I had thought of giving Pipewire a try (and did install it briefly) but I'm not convinced that it's quite ready-for-prime-time yet. At least, not for someone with my skill level.

xf86-input-libinput: yes. That works, and perhaps I should've used it. I'm just used to using xinput. But your way is the more "elegant".

nm-tray: I've tried lxappearance... I use that, lxsession (to shutdown/reboot) as well as lxpolkit in all of my i3wm installs. However, I really battle to get it to work. Even now I've noticed that the icon has disappeared again!

When I do the re-install, I'll create another post if I still have problems. Or, maybe create a how-to about setting up i3wm in Devuan smile

#2 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problems with i3wm » 2021-05-07 08:19:18

...and I've found a fix for the nm-tray icon. I just copied the files over (although I'm sure there is a more elegant solution!)

 sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Numix/scalable/status/network* /usr/share/pixmaps/

I now have a rather brilliant i3wm installation running on Devuan Beowulf!

#3 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problems with i3wm » 2021-05-07 07:49:24

I've also sorted out tap-to-click on my touch pad. Here is how I did it:

sudo apt install xinput
xinput list

which gave me this (in part - it's quite long)

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Mouse  	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=16	[slave  pointer  (2)] 

I want device id=16 - the Synaptics TouchPad.

 xinput list-props 16

which gives me that device's properties:

Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
	Device Enabled (153):	1
	Coordinate Transformation Matrix (155):	1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
	libinput Tapping Enabled (306):	0

(again, a partial list, as it's quite long)

So, I need to change the property "Tapping Enabled (306)" from a 0 (off) to a 1 (on):

xinput set-prop 16 306 1

...and include it in my

~/.config/i3/config

to make it permanent:

exec --no-startup-id xinput set-prop 16 306 1 &

Now I've just got to figure out why I can't see the icon for nm-tray.

#4 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problems with i3wm » 2021-05-07 07:31:11

Got it! I found the solution over at the arch forum. I had to create a file:

/etc/modprobe.d/default.conf

with the contents

options snd_hda_intel index=1

Then run

sudo alsactl init

I now have sound smile

#5 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problems with i3wm » 2021-05-07 06:19:23

Thanks for your reply. Here's the result of inxi -A:

Audio:     Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-16-amd64

Muting isn't the issue: what I neglected to mention is that I have 2 lights on the keyboard: one for wifi, and the other for sound. The sound light isn't on. So, I'm missing something fundamental here.

#6 Installation » [SOLVED] Problems with i3wm » 2021-05-06 10:29:23

stroudmw
Replies: 7

I have tried to install i3wm on Devuan Beowulf. It's been pretty successful, but I have 2 niggling issues. What I've done is this:

- Ran the netinstall, and selected Standard System Utilities
- Selected sysvinit (which is the recommendation)

I then included beowulf-backports in /etc/apt/sources.list (but I really don't think that this is relevant - I just use it for up-to-date firmware and for LibreOffice, which I haven't got to yet)

I then installed the following:
- firmware-linux-nonfree, firmware-iwlwifi (from the backports)
- sudo (and then included my user in the sudoers file using visudo. I'm also in the sudo group)
- htop, lm-sensors, ufw, tlp, tlp-rdw (probably useless in my case), inxi
- xorg, lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter
- lxpolkit, lxappearance, lxsession (using --no-install-recommends)
- i3 (the metapackage), rofi
- thunar, terminator, nitrogen, firefox-esr, mpv (video player), deadbeef (music player), numix-icon-theme, oxygencursors
- compton, nm-tray, volumeicon-alsa, alsamixergui

The two problems I have are:
1) I have no sound. I'm sure that I've missed out something important in alsa, but I have no idea what. I've tried pipewire as well as pulseaudio (grasping at straws), but that didn't work, and I've now removed them.
NB: I have commented out autospawn=no in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

sudo alsactl init gives me this:
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel Haswell HDMI" "HDA:80862807,80860101,00100000" "0x103c" "0x1942"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

2) nm-tray works, but I don't have an icon. (Just a black box). I get "QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set". Google tells me that this is because nm-tray is looking in /usr/share/pixmaps instead of /usr/share/icons, but I have no idea how to fix this.

3) My touchpad "tap-to-click" isn't working, but I haven't spent any time trying to fix this yet: I'll get to it when I've sorted out my other problems!

Here is my basic system info:

System:    Host: constellation Kernel: 4.19.0-16-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: i3 4.16.1 Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 450 G1 v: A3009DD10303 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1942 v: KBC Version 89.0E serial: <root required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard 
           v: L74 Ver. 01.03 date: 09/27/2013 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.9 Wh condition: 39.3/39.3 Wh (100%) 
CPU:       Quad Core: Intel Core i7-4702MQ type: MT MCP speed: 1106 MHz min/max: 800/3200 MHz 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mars [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8750M] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
           Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth type: USB driver: usb-network 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 787.84 GiB (84.6%) 
Info:      Processes: 171 Uptime: 26m Memory: 7.09 GiB used: 820.6 MiB (11.3%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

#7 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [solved] [MiyoLinux] connection issues - catch 22 » 2019-02-06 12:37:14

I tethered my old Samsung Galaxy S4 to the USB port.
I now have internet access.
I feel like an idiot for not thinking of that earlier!

Thanks again for your help smile

#8 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [solved] [MiyoLinux] connection issues - catch 22 » 2019-02-06 10:33:02

No problem! It turns out that I have a copy of seamonkey.zip so I'll give that a try.
Thanks for your help!

#9 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [solved] [MiyoLinux] connection issues - catch 22 » 2019-02-05 13:12:00

That's not what I'd call an elegant solution. But thanks...

#10 Devuan Derivatives » [solved] [MiyoLinux] connection issues - catch 22 » 2019-02-05 11:31:32

stroudmw
Replies: 5

I have got myself into a catch-22: I have a really old Acer Aspire 3003LC laptop, and it has no working networking ports. So, I've got a Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R206-Z "dongle" which I connect to a usb port. I need to authenticate, so I usually launch a web browser, type in the address http://vodafonemobile.wifi, enter my password and connect.

But Miyo doesn't come with a web browser, so I can't do that. I've tried a few .deb files that I've got (vivaldi, palemoon) but the installation fails because of missing dependencies. I can't install them because I'm not connected to the internet...

So, I can't connect to the internet without a browser, and I can't install a browser without connecting to the internet.

Not a good day.

#11 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (solved) can't run sudo apt install » 2018-10-14 06:06:35

Thanks. It's working fine this morning. I guess the server was offline or something.
And re-installing pulseaudio fixed my sound issues.

#12 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (solved) can't run sudo apt install » 2018-10-13 12:55:42

sudo apt update gives me this:

Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii InRelease 
Hit:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                      
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

#13 Hardware & System Configuration » (solved) can't run sudo apt install » 2018-10-13 12:53:47

stroudmw
Replies: 3

I'm running Devuan Ascii 32 bit, and have been having trouble with audio (no sound!).
One of the solutions I found suggested that I remove and reinstall pulseaudio.
I ran sudo apt remove pulseaudio successfully. But when I try to run sudo apt install pulseaudio, I get this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  pavumeter paman paprefs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pulseaudio
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,090 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,082 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/main i386 pulseaudio i386 10.0-1+deb9u1
  404  Not Found [IP: 185.183.113.129 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/p/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_10.0-1+deb9u1_i386.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 185.183.113.129 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

sudo apt update --fix-missing didn't help. And I do have a working internet connection.
My /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this:

# deb cdrom:[devuan_ascii_2.0.0_i386_netinst]/ ascii main non-free

#deb cdrom:[devuan_ascii_2.0.0_i386_netinst]/ ascii main non-free

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii main non-free contrib

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security main non-free contrib

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates main non-free contrib

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-backports main non-free contrib

Can someone please help me with this?

#14 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [MiyoLinux] New Releases Uploaded » 2018-10-11 12:06:39

Hi,

Yesterday I downloaded and installed Miyo-Modern-32bit-20180922.iso, and It's wonderful! (Thank you!)

I have managed to install what I needed (why no web browser?) but I have a question:

Is it possible to include a "user avatar" on the slim login screen? It seems to have an empty "face" picture on it, but that could well be part of the image, as opposed to a "place-holder" for an image.

I've tried to create a ".face" file in my /home directory as that usually does the trick.

Thanks again!

Regards,
Mike

#15 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved} Miyo Awesome - no sound » 2018-08-14 14:24:44

I'm really glad that I could be of some help (for a change!)  smile

#17 Devuan Derivatives » [Solved} Miyo Awesome - no sound » 2018-08-14 09:39:52

stroudmw
Replies: 4

Apologies for posting two questions on the same day!

I can't get any sound using Deadbeef or VLC on Miyo Awesome. I'm not sure when this started, or what I did to break it.

Inxi reports the following:

Audio:  Card Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.0-7-amd64

I've tried re-installing the codecs (libavcodec-extra ffmpeg flac) and I've checked that my volume isn't muted. I've also checked Alsa, and the volume controls are at maximum.

Thanks (again).

#18 Devuan Derivatives » Miyo Awesome theme questions » 2018-08-14 09:21:18

stroudmw
Replies: 3

I've been playing around with themes on Miyo Awesome. I go into "Settings" > "Customize Look & Feel" (lxappearance) but the themes I add to /usr/share/themes don't appear in the list. The themes in /usr/share/awesome/themes are ignored completely. I've had a look at the miyo-awesome-slim-theme and, can't get it to appear either (I've followed the instructions).

My second problem is that after playing around I've gone and lost the very nice screen that showed up when being prompted for my password. The one I've got now is rather ugly. How do I restore the default Miyo Awesome login screen?  I assume that this is set somewhere in /etc/slim.conf.

Thanks.

#19 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-08-08 13:25:28

I've been using this for a few years, without issues. I got the instructions from the Debian wiki. If it breaks, I'll fix it. Or, in a worse case, spend a morning reinstalling.

#20 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-08-08 12:56:34

Because I want Seamonkey to stay updated. I neither like nor dislike Ubuntu: I'm rather ambivalent.
Why do you care?

#21 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-08-08 11:35:58

yes... strangely strange, yet oddly normal!

Thanks (again) for your help. I've written a nice review in Sourceforge, as well as the "Linux for Older Computers" Facebook group.

#22 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-08-08 10:31:18

Ok... I found the solution:
I changed:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2667CA5C

to:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 2667CA5C

I don't understand why this worked... it wasn't my ufw firewall as 1) I've done this many times before and the firewall has never been an issue, and 2) I had thought of the firewall and had disabled it!

Anyhow, it works. It must be magic.

#23 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-08-08 10:02:15

Reinstalled dirmngr and I still have the same problem.

#24 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-08-08 09:45:05

Yep smile I did install dirmngr. I should've mentioned that, sorry.
edit: perhaps I should reinstall dirmngr...

#25 Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-08-08 07:14:25

stroudmw
Replies: 13

I'm having issues trying to install the Seamonkey web browser in Miyo Awesome (Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0) . I like that browser because, not only is it lightweight, but it also comes with a pretty good email client.

I add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

...and then run this:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2667CA5C

...and get this:

Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.3PmnrSXlye/gpg.1.sh --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2667CA5C
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure

I've used this method with both Devuan Ascii and Debian Stretch without issues, but for some reason I can't get it to work with Miyo!

Linux hurricane 4.9.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u1 (2018-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks.

edit: I have been using the instructions found here: https://wiki.debian.org/Seamonkey

Board footer

Forum Software