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#1 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Daedalus on Dell Inspiron fails » 2023-10-31 21:37:59
P1nky wrote:. . . ensured I included the nonfree-firmware) . . .
If that is a typo, it needs to be corrected. If that is what you actually tried to install, try non-free-firmware instead.
That was a typo in my post, not the config.
Just to update, blacklisting the nouveau driver has fixed it (once I got the other little "gotchas" resolved). This was on a fresh installation, so I'm still finalising everything, rather than restoring the chimaera installation and upgeading that.
I think I may avoid Dell kit in future!
#2 Installation » [SOLVED] Daedalus on Dell Inspiron fails » 2023-10-31 18:20:25
- P1nky
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Been happy with Devuan for years now, having run Debian previously, but there seems to be a catastrophic failure with Daedalus 
Initially I tried a straight upgrade in place (and after reading the notes, ensured I included the non-free-firmware), and it seemed to install cleanly, but on rebooting, I was at the CLI (not a problem in itself, but I need X for work!) I assumed that there was some issue with the config, so cleared out any residual X configs, and tried starting X, but no joy. On checking the log files, it simply seg-faults, and the log suggests some issue with nouveau. As this is my main work laptop, I had to simply drop back to the chimaera installation. I have tried a fresh install of daedalus when I had a free hour, with the exact same failure, so it appears that there's an issue with the card/driver.
For reference, the primary card is an Intel GT2, and the secondary card is a GTX 1650. This has been flawless under chimaera (using Optimus).
Is it worth trying again, and installing the nvidia drivers, or am I likely to face further issues with that? I won't have the capacity to work without this system for a while, so anything that will take more than a few hours of outage is going to be tricky.
#3 Re: Installation » Installing on a new laptop » 2020-12-18 21:18:28
Instead of switching to chimaera - did you try using beowulf with just the kernel from unstable or backports?
I did, and the vast majority of things worked, but there were so many functions that didn't quite work as planned, so I did a bit of research, and found that the more recent kernels are really needed to properly support this laptop's hardware. Full use of the secondary GPU with bumblebee was a royal pain, and the sound card flat-out refused to work without pulling in stuff from Ceres or Chimaera.
I did run a hybrid Chimaera/Beowulf installation for a while, but eventually ended up with X not picking up the keyboard (too many hacky combinations), so gave a full-on Chimaera migration a go, with great success so far. I don't have any objections to running on the "testing" release, having been a sysadmin for longer than I care to think about! If it all goes badly wrong, I can roll back fairly simply, or even go for a clean start in under 2 hours.
#4 Re: Installation » Installing on a new laptop » 2020-12-03 19:01:53
Just to update, I got the whole shebang (bar a minor function that I don't care about) working this morning (just in time for some work Zoom meetings!) I had to disable the mic detect on the sound driver (seems to be common with some Intel cards), but the external mic on my headset works perfectly. The only non functioning feature is the Goodix fingerprint reader, but that's a gimmick IMHO. Moving to chimaera has allowed me to avoid the pain of bumblebee, and still use both GFX cards properly.
I have had a few odd packages that were auto-installed with other stuff, that then broke, but simply removing those brought everything into good order. I maybe shouldn't admit this, but I haven't had so much fun getting a system working since about '98 (when I switched from Red Hat to Slackware).
#5 Re: Installation » Installing on a new laptop » 2020-12-02 21:24:49
The AX201 should be supported by the firmware-iwlwifi & kernel packages in the beowulf-backports repositories.
The .deb packages can be downloaded from Debian's repositories (which are mirrored in Devuan by amprolla):
http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/non-f … +1_all.deb
http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/ … _amd64.deb
Download those on another machine then transfer them to your Devuan system and install them. Afterwards you can add the beowulf-backports repositories and install the linux-image-amd64 metapackage from there so that the kernel is kept updated.
After a little effort, this worked. Unfortunately I seem to have bought too new a laptop, as most of the system is not running optimally. I'm currently updating the whole setup to chimaera, to try and get the Optimus system working, and will then start on getting the audio system working.
Thankfully, these issues are not show-stoppers, and the core setup works enough for this to be my main work system.
#6 Installation » Installing on a new laptop » 2020-12-01 18:46:32
- P1nky
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Having been a user of Devuan every since the infection of Debian (which was my OS of choice since around '03), I have been very happy with it as my only OS on 3 devices (all ancient systems, if I'm honest!) I have finally decided to get a newer laptop, and have bought a nice shiny Dell, and therein lies my problem. I checked on the running systems that all the hardware is supported, but didn't check that the AX201 wifi is supported on the installation images! I did consider installing with just the desktop image, then updating, but how do I do that with not network connection?
Does anyone know of a solution (even if it means installing a derivative, and adjusting that)? Until I get the wifi working, I'm stuck in the hell that is Windows 10!
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