Hello devuan team,
i have a question. I am interested in buying this 2023 mid-range laptop (Asus Tuf A16 Ryzen 7 7735hs) however, it runs into some detection issues with previous year kernels, except for newer kernels (6.4.8 and above, which solve many detections problems).

I am not keen in trying excalibur due to the usrmerge thing, so i prefer to stick with daedalus (however, the installation kernel is 6.1.38).
which is the best way to install the new kernel, at installation time or after the first install?
what are the steps to install the most recent long-term kernel 6.6.47?  (or, should i try the stable version 6.10.6 instead?)

I will appreciate your guidance with some commands lines to make this possible
From what i read it's a good laptop.

Read some additional info, links below:

Long term kernel 6.6.47; 2024-08-19
Asus TUF A16 Advantage Edition (2023) laptop compatibility check
Asus TUF Gaming A16 2023 Advantage Edition in Linux

Thank you very much for your kind assistance.
Omar

hello guys,
I am using devuan chimaera, facing the following issue:

When i plug my wired usb xbox360 controller, i can see in the terminal with lsusb that is correctly detected, view below:
    Bus 001 Device 008: ID 045e:028e Microsoft Corp. Xbox360 Controller

I also have a wired usb xbox one S controller, which is also detected properly. The issue is, when i try to use "antiMicroX" or "qJoyPad" or "jstest-gtk", the x360 controller is not detected (the xb1s is detected somehow by these programs).

I was reading online and they suggest to install the xboxdrv package to make it visible my laptop. Check link below for debian package:
https://debian.pkgs.org/10/debian-main- … 4.deb.html

I tried running these commands in the terminal and installation was unsuccessful:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install xboxdrv
        Reading package lists... Done
        Building dependency tree... Done
        Reading state information... Done
        E: Unable to locate package xboxdrv

I double-checked in synaptic and noticed that the package is not available in the list of 59860 packages currently available in the repositories.

Can you please assist me in how to install xboxdrv package in devuan?
Or, do you have an alternate method to configure this controller and be utilized?

Thank you in advance for your help.
Cheers.

hello devuan team.

I have finished evaluating virage 3.1 and I liked it very much (since it also allows the topic at hand straight away). It's now my candidate to replace my good old SLED11-sp4 in the near future.

However, I wanted to re-evaluate and give another chance to the original devuan. I have now installed ascii 2.1 x86-64 from netInstall with mate desktop environment in virtualBox.

I have found these issues:

#1  i want to remove wicd and install network manager (I achieved this in virage easily with the guide found in a post in the "freedom hacks" forum), however in 'mate', after i click "system >> administration >> synaptic package manager" and the password pop-up window appears, it doesn't accept neither the root password nor the normal user password, which is very weird.

#2  i can't use root at logon screen and then use the root gui desktop environment to make system modifications (like opensuse or virage). when i try root and root's password at this logon screen, it doesn't move forward. only my local user account works to go into the desktop environment. So, problem #1 can be solved if i have access to the root gui D-E.

#3  when i go into "mate terminal" and enter "su" and "su -", and then i enter the root password, the root password doesn't work either. it displays "authentication failure". am i doing something wrong?

I tried a hint that i read in another post in this forum to achieve root at login, yet that option did not work unfortunately.

what commands do i need to enter to make this work?
At the main 'mate' login screen I don't see any options to click and modify settings, only the username/password boxes. that's it.

have into account that i am not CLI savvy, I'm mostly a point-and-click user using linux consistently for 10 years.

i am going to try with i386 ascii netInstall instead of x86-64 to try to replicate the issues I have, and see where the problem lies.

thanks a lot guys for your input.
cheers.

Hello devuan team,
I am a new registered member in the forums, although I have been lurking from the outside since early 2019.

I am currently using one of the best linux distributions for normal *gui* people: suse linux enterprise desktop 11 sp4 with gnome 2.28
This is the last version without systemd (by the way, I do only a few commands in the terminal, like installing rpms, converting files with ffmpeg, and a few more but that's it).
I also like that I can use root gui for some admin tasks. I am the only user in this laptop and access to gui root is essential.

Some history: began with computers as a savvy end user since the win3.1 days (1997), in those days quake1 and duke nukem 3d were huge hits.

I started timidly using linux back in 2004 with suse linux personal 9.1 and then dropped it after a few months and went back to windows.
When opensuse 10.3 appeared on the scene, I decided to return and check it out, and started using it more frequently; when SLED10 was released, I went ahead and installed it (around 2010), at this point I had moved definitely to linux, like 99.5% of the time consistently since that time. Later I installed SLED11 and stayed there until now.

Unfortunately, it's showing its age, I haven't updated any programs for more than 3 years (end of life); and even tough it's still performing great, I can't stay here forever; and since last year I'm evaluating other linux options.
New distro versions are now coming with systemd, and I would rather continue with a proven init system and not use one that wants to become another svchost.exe

I evaluated recently opensuse 15.2 with mate desktop and it looks awesome, but the fact that systemd is inside doing its thing, it doesn't make me comfortable. Then I started checking more on devuan.

I evaluated initially devuan 3 beowulf with mate desktop inside virtualbox, but got no sound (I know, the release notes, yet remember that i am not not a command-line-interface individual so i did not know how to fix it neither I tried to venture. When I had issues like this, I used to go to root gui and open gedit, and make the modifications).

Then I installed devuan 2.1 ascii with mate and later cinnamon. These were better options for me, however, not having access as root in a gui, it's an important item to check on my list.

Then, I commenced to review derivatives, I probably tried like 6-8 of them, not finding one that I liked. Then other systemd-free distros, like pcLinuxOS, Alpine, Void and others.

Right before I gave up and went for opensuse again, recently came across with devuan virage linux 3.1. This one is based on beowulf with xfce, although with newer kernel; lots of music applications (audio is not my thing, but the desktop environment layout looks great) and I'm able to sign in as root. Yay!

It has a weird way to install on disk yet it works great in virtualbox and I am happily evaluating it; I am trying to get around the synaptics package manager gui and customizing xfce, it's the first time i'm using it after more than a decade with gnome.
I already installed firefox and removed chromium as practice.
So this might be the option I was looking for. I am trying to get more acquainted with it over the days. So you will be reading more from me asking questions since I don't have any devuan/debian background.

After this learning phase and later feeling more comfortable around it, I can go ahead and install devuan in 3 more family computers (my brother's [x2] and dad's; all using opensuse at the moment).

As a final comment, I am happy in finally joining the forums and  participate whenever required.

Greetings from Colombia.

PS:
If you have any hints/tips in how to customize xfce desktop environment (plugins?) to look more like gnome 2.28/mate, your comments are more than welcome, since me, my brother and dad are used to this layout for years as well, we are 100% gui point-and-click people. Cheers everyone.