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#1 Re: Other Issues » Audio over HDMI not working » 2025-03-16 11:33:58

forte

I'll try that later this week just to rule this out (sometimes is the silly things, right?). But this has been working fine until fine up until now with Devuan, so I'm fairly certain that this is not the case.

Although I noticed that the monitor has a VGA port... I'm not sure if it'll make any difference but might as well try that, too.

#2 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Unable to run Mullvad VPN » 2025-03-15 13:34:10

forte

The systemctl command is not available on non-systemd distributions. That's why Mullvad VPN doesn't work automatically on Devuan.

1. Create a new file in /etc/init.d called "mullvad".
2. Paste the contents of the script kindly provided by juic3 a few posts back (thanks again).
3. Grant the script with executable permissions by running: sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/mullvad.
4. Run sudo update-rc.d mullvad defaults.

Mullvad VPN should start automatically now.

#3 Re: Other Issues » Audio over HDMI not working » 2025-03-15 13:27:44

forte

Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to fix this. I tried to uninstall PulseAudio entirely and replace it with PipeWire, following this article:

How to Install and Configure PipeWire in Linux

And then running PipeWire manually just to test things out:

https://github.com/MX-Linux/pipewire-se … wire-start

Unfortunately, this didn't work either and it even took away the audio from the laptop speakers and now only headphones work. Not that I actually care all that much since the laptop speakers are not very good anyway, but just to document what's going on.

Please, any help on this is much appreciated. Thank you.

#4 Re: Documentation » Enabling HEIC/HEIF and AVIF image support in Devuan » 2025-03-12 17:24:38

forte

I can confirm that this works in XFCE with Thunar. To enable support for WebP I have found that installing webp-pixbuf-loader works to visualize images, although not thumbnails.

#5 Other Issues » Audio over HDMI not working » 2025-03-12 10:21:12

forte
Replies: 6

Hello everyone,

I'm having some issues with audio that I haven't been able to figure out. My setup is a laptop and an external monitor, which has built-in speakers, connected via HDMI. When I open the Audio Mixer, I can see there is a profile created for it but it says unavailable as you can see in the screenshot:

audio-hdmi.png

Selecting that option, or any of the other HDMI options, results in not audio playing at all. Selecting Analog Stereo Output works normally but it plays the audio from the laptop. With this option, I can also play audio from my headphones normally, so it's really just the external display that is not working properly, as far as audio is concerned.

I thought this might have been because of the non-free firmware since Debian 12 handled this out of the box, but upon checking /etc/apt/sources.list the repositories are set to download from it.

#6 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Unable to run Mullvad VPN » 2025-03-09 10:54:11

forte

I thought that was just generic boilerplate, and didn't stop to read through but I'll be sure to take a closer look. Thanks again!

#7 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Unable to install Daedalus » 2025-03-07 18:23:48

forte

On the other hand, Ventoy seems to be sort of dead, according to their web page there will be no further version past 0.99.

Hi, sorry for the delay. I was curious about this statement, but it appears that there are some updates recently according to the Ventoy site: https://ventoy.net/en/doc_news.html

#8 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Unable to run Mullvad VPN » 2025-03-07 18:20:56

forte

All right, that worked perfectly! This leaves me with so many questions such as... why? big_smile From all the example init scripts that I've seen, this seems so much shorter. How did you come up with that? Asking because I'd like to know more about it in case I have to do the same with some other service.

Thank you very much!

#9 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Unable to run Mullvad VPN » 2025-03-06 18:40:15

forte

I'm sorry, do I need to combine this with the script linked in the previous post? Thanks for that as well, just realized it's yours!

If I were to completely remove Mullvad and start over, is this what I should do:

1. Install Mullvad by either:
   a) adding their repository (replacing the code name for "bookworm").
   b) running from the .deb file directly.
2. Create a new file at /etc/init.d/mullvad with the contents of this snippet, followed by the rest of the code from the other post starting at around line 20 onwards.
3. Run sudo update-rc.d mullvad defaults.
4. Reboot?

Clearly, I'm out of my element here. I don't mind using the command line and navigate up and down directories, but I've just never handled anything related to SysVinit. In fact, I've never even handled any systemd services, either.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

#10 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Unable to run Mullvad VPN » 2025-03-05 21:26:56

forte
Replies: 10

Hi everyone,

I've recently moved to Devuan and I'm still working out a few issues that I have. The ones that I'm most unfamiliar with are all related to SysVinit, and more specifically I'd like to ask for some assistance with getting Mullvad VPN up and running.

I did search in the forum and found a few matches about this same issue, including one where an init script was suggested and which I've tried, to no avail.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3500

Unfortunately, after trying this the Mullvad GUI doesn't even launch after I created this script in /etc/init.d/mullvad. Before that, it would launch but with an error saying that the connection did not work, or something around those lines. Which I assume is because of this other error that I got while installing it in the first place (this is from /var/log/apt/term.log):

Preparing to unpack .../mullvad-vpn_2025.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mullvad-vpn (2025.4) ...
Setting up mullvad-vpn (2025.4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mullvad-vpn.postinst: line 6: systemctl: command not found
dpkg: error processing package mullvad-vpn (--configure):
 installed mullvad-vpn package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mullvad-vpn

Obviously, something to do with systemd... I wonder if someone here could help me?

Thank you

#11 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Unable to install Daedalus » 2025-03-03 12:30:07

forte

Will do, thank you very much.

Although I'd still like to ask here, since there's an ongoing conversation about it, is there an easy way to tell when an ISO will work on Ventoy or does the project need to specifically mention this? The reason I ask is because in the past I had similar problems with other ISO files, but I wasn't sure if they were caused because of this or just a bad USB stick.

#12 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Unable to install Daedalus » 2025-03-03 09:40:48

forte

Thank you all for your help and replies!

I managed to install Devuan successfully yesterday but only had time to run it for a little while. I found however a couple of issues, regarding the trackpad and audio. Should I open new threads to ask about those?

#13 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Unable to install Daedalus » 2025-02-28 16:34:34

forte

I suspected that much, but wasn't really sure if that might have been the case or not... and I didn't want to lose a few ISO files that I had in that thumb drive. I'll give it another go over the weekend, see how it goes, and report back.

Thanks for such a quick reply by the way!

#14 Installation » [SOLVED] Unable to install Daedalus » 2025-02-28 13:01:29

forte
Replies: 30

Hello everyone,

I've just tried to install Devuan Daedalus using the net installer ISO. I downloaded it using a torrent file, but I've verified that the checksum matches to the ones provided, and that the GPG signature is correct as well. Then, I copied the ISO file over to an USB drive which is formatted using Ventoy, which I've used before for other ISO files, including Debian's.

It starts and I'm presented with the installation menu (first screenshot in this page):

https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … all-devuan

However, after selecting either 1) Install or 2) Expert Install I see the same result. A black screen with a lot of text flying by saying that it cannot mount on /cdrom. I guess I should've taken a picture of that (I'll update the post in a minute).

devuan-error.jpg

I really can't say much more than that. I'm left with a prompt but I'm not sure what to do with it. Commands like shutdown or reboot don't work, so I have to forcefully turn off my laptop pressing the power button.

Any help is much appreciated, thank you.

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