Hi

sorry for late reply.

vlc tends to use "default" as the default audio device on next boot up.
If vlc was using pulseaudio then that is what default is....ditto if you used alsa...that is what default is.
Can you try

vlc -> Tools -> Preferences -> Select Audio TAB  -> pulldown output and choose Alsa
pulldown device and choose the analog device....I am not sure what your choices are but mine have alsa, surround sound and hdmi
click save
and retest sound

Hi

Not using that variant but until you get a better reply....maybe firefox run from a terminal might show some errors?

If none seen....and if you don't mind a little bit of logging into sites
delete the
.cache/mozilla
.mozilla

in case stale files are interfering?

@czeekaj

I do not need gimp....I get by with mtpaint if interested.

apt info mtpaint
Package: mtpaint
Version: 3.40-3+b1
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Source: mtpaint (3.40-3)
Maintainer: Muammar El Khatib <muammar@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 1,782 kB
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2
 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), 
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgif7 (>= 5.1), libglib2.0-0 
(>= 2.31.8), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1),
 libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), 
libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), 
libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), gtklp
Homepage: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
Tag: field::arts, interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::program,
 scope::application, uitoolkit::gtk, use::editing,
 works-with-format::TODO, works-with-format::gif,
 works-with-format::jpg, works-with-format::png,
 works-with-format::tiff, works-with::image, works-with::image:raster,
 x11::application
Download-Size: 521 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 Packages
Description: painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos

We know you have the 9377 WLAN device, so if you do wish to pursue that it will need a firmware file and
I can not find it in Devuan at the moment.

I did find
https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-atheros
which contains those fw files

I am not in the dev team but can I make some suggestions

1) depending on whether you use sudo or su -, use root powers to

apt update
apt dist-upgrade

and see what happens

2) report what happens with root powers when you run

update-initramfs -u

I show mine
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-8-amd64
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda2
I: (UUID=string deleted)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
live-boot: core filesystems devices utils udev blockdev dns.

HI

I wonder if we are seeing different closed source drivers?

If you have GeForce GT 440....according to my eyesight it might be the 390 series
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR … 3832/en-us
which claims

Part 2
If you plan on doing a rebuild.....because it might be too hard etc....
I suggest you create a spare data partition quite large
or have a spare drive if its a tower to have this spare partition.

on a clean install....I then reboot with a live product.
My current one is system rescue cd (flashed as an USB)  as it works well for my AMD graphics and auto boots to root
and I then create a mount point and run fsarchiver.

If you are lazy like me....and forget to make backup of backup....you may need to start again as we are only as good as our last backup.....I am sure you are aware of Murphy's law....or brown stuff happens.

any how if interested here is how I do it

mkdir /z # its a non writeable usb
mount /dev/sda3 /z
# create my first image
fsarchiver savefs /z/a.fsa /dev/sda1 -a

# or restore first image once created
fsarchiver restfs /z/a.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda1  # after id its a zero not an OH

Naturally you would change the target partition to write to if you are using an usb stick etc

Good luck

Hi

If you have access to a live cd/USB I suggest you try out a xorg setting.
first I used to have an intel VGA but now AMD APU so can not test this myself anymore.

2) on Beowulf we have a confless Xorg system. But hopefully your system  should recognise part conf files.

so you will need powers to create the conf dir.
skip the apt commands if you know you have not deleted any intel drivers

su - 
apt update
apt install xserver-xorg-video-intel

# create dir if missing
[ -d /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ ] || mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

# create file
echo '## /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
	Driver      "Intel"
	Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
        #Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
	Option      "TearFree"	"True"
	Option      "Tiling"	"True"
	Option      "SwapbuffersWait" "True"
EndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Now you have 2 options over full reboot
allegedly you will get graphics and the driver in inxi -Gxxx will change from modesetting to intel

and either graphics will be stable or not
uxa is commented out and you have sna.

if not working too well, try editting with root powers to comment out the first and enable the second as some cards vary.

if you can not get into GUI and do not know how to use nano at console login
then just a live cd/usb, mount the target internal drive and then use root powers to edit that file.

ref
https://gist.github.com/r0xsh/a868e794f … d5b9e743dc

to anyone interested in sddm display manager read on.
spoiler alert...I am no longer using sddm see EDIT

I first attempted to install this and choose sddm over slim but unable to login via GUI over reboot.
manual login at tty worked and then startx worked ok.

I then read the notes (I always read and understand notes
http://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/ … _notes.txt

so I used root powers to install consolekit first and full reboot and GUI slim login OK
then installed sddm and full reboot and GUI sddm login OK
also without loggng in...but sddm appears....I was able to login with tty2 with localname login and then startx.
#######################################################################
EDIT
above post was made 31 Mar.

I have restored an earlier image (I use fsarchiver images) that uses slim DM because I failed to test usb data stick.

Firstly on my restored image  XFCE settings -> File manager -> Advanced I have enabled volume manager. No need to click image but it claims that gvfs (allegedly gvfs-vbackends) is not installed
but.....usb data sticks mount ok as read write storage.
https://imgur.com/sLNx2st

I have no time to trouble shoot why sddm caused my loss of this feature and
installing gvfs-backends with a full reboot made no difference.

Being impatient to do other things....I am not pursuing this any further but submitting the info in case someone has a similar issue if they migrate off slim DM

Thanks for reading

Does anyone think the following might explain my udev slowness for my SSD drive.
eg

SSD would appear to use sata controller

lspci -vvv
snip
27:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
snip
Kernel driver in use: ahci

We have an initrd and I have finally worked out how to unpack it, if interested a separate post
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20812#p20812

unpacking it and searching for the kernel module gives me

root@box:/tmp/unpack# find . -name ahci.ko
./usr/lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko

My question....does the init process .....have a certain order....if so is it possible the loading of kernel modules is occurring late in the init process?

@kapqa

on post 24 you asked for a package to be included as you have an Epson printer.
Did you know Gutenprint has a lot of Epsons already?
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Sup … inters.php

Hope that helps

Hi
I finally spotted but needed prompting this post
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1925

as my removal of systemd stuff is on the beta iso I thought I would share the little I know here
And I am glad that link is a sticky too.

For those anal creatures like me, who boasts they have no systemd on their PC....read on or ignore as you see fit. My testing is very sparse but FF streaming youtube is fine and local media files mp4 and mp3 are fine after doing this playing using VLC

This is tested only on beowulf_3.0.0_beta dated Mar 11 not Mar 25 clean install on internal hard drive.

# find / -name systemd
> /var/lib/systemd
> /lib/systemd
> /usr/lib/systemd
> /etc/systemd
> /run/systemd
# rm -rf /var/lib/systemd /lib/systemd /usr/lib/systemd /etc/systemd /run/systemd

full reboot finds  only one gremlin found (so far)
I lose GUI restart and shutdown as per image
https://imgur.com/JVhuo4y

this I have fixed for now with 2 new desktops with contents

echo '[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=pkexec /sbin/shutdown -r now
Icon=system-log-out
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Name=restart
Name[en_US.UTF-8]=restart' > Desktop/restart.desktop

echo '[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=pkexec /sbin/shutdown -h now
Icon=system-log-out
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Name=shutdown' > Desktop/shutdown.desktop

chmod 755 Desktop/shutdown.desktop
chmod 755 Desktop/restart.desktop

YMMV