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#1 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] How to upgrade from Excalibur to Freia (What about freia-security)? » Yesterday 20:07:05
Thank you so much for anwering in datails and helping me out with this. Everything is working as expected now.
You have until 2030 or so as well but you should consider switching too the new format devuan.sources too. My current file that has all of these things enabled.
Good to know. I swtiched to the new style. Thanks for the tip.
There were some small issues that I want to mention:
1. I changed http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged to http://deb.devuan.org/merged. It was slow for me.
Hopefully those are mirrors and I didn't mess things up. Right?
2. It looks like that the way you commented the Suites: section wasn't correct. apt was still seeking for non-existant things.
I put the comment in a newline and it worked.
...
Get:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia InRelease [43.4 kB]
Ign:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged #freia-backports InRelease
Ign:5 http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-proposed-updates InRelease
Ign:6 http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-updates InRelease
Err:7 http://deb.devuan.org/merged #freia-backports Release
404 Not Found
Err:8 http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-proposed-updates Release
404 Not Found
Err:9 http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-updates Release
404 Not Found
Get:10 http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia/main amd64 Packages [9,866 kB]
...Here's my final config:
## Devuan 7 freia
## The new style method of using repositories to install software.
## This /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources is new style and location file
## The /etc/apt/old.style.sources.list contains the same as this.
## https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntus-repository-configuration-ubuntu-sources-have-moved-to-etc-apt-sources-list-d-ubuntu-sources
## Normal freia sources
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: freia
#freia-backports freia-proposed-updates freia-updates
Components: main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
Architectures: amd64
## freia security sources
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: freia-security
Components: main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
Enabled: no
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
Architectures: amd64#2 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] How to upgrade from Excalibur to Freia (What about freia-security)? » Yesterday 05:48:52
The security repository is for fixes that apply to already released software while it is a still supported version, the unreleased versions get fixed by new uploads to the development repositories. Which then find their way into the testing/unstable branches of those repositories.
Thank you for your answer.
BTW it looks like freia-updates doesn't exist either. Should I remove the second line too?
#3 Installation » [SOLVED] How to upgrade from Excalibur to Freia (What about freia-security)? » 2025-12-31 22:12:56
- sysv_penguin
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I changed everything in /etc/apt/sources.list from Excalibur to Freia. However I don't have -security in my sources.list because it apparently doesn't exist.
Is it OK?
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware#4 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] removing adjfontsize (LARGER FONTS/SMALLER FONTS) » 2025-10-01 17:55:02
Thank you all for taking your time. 🧡
Indeed the package was fontsnaps. Running sudo apt purge fontsnaps got rid of it.
#5 Other Issues » [SOLVED] removing adjfontsize (LARGER FONTS/SMALLER FONTS) » 2025-10-01 11:41:56
- sysv_penguin
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Hello. Which package is related to these files:
/usr/share/applications/LARGER_FONTS.desktop
/usr/share/applications/SMALLER_FONTS.desktop
adjfontsize#6 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv » 2025-09-28 15:44:59
🎉 Thank you so much for helping me. After upgrading that package, the dongle is working as expected. 
TLDR, for users who might stumble upon this:
1. Enable backports by adding the backports repo to the file (For me it was there i just uncommented it): /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Install newer version of the Linux kernel from the backports repo: sudo apt install linux-image-amd64/daedalus-backports
3. Upgrade Realtek packages: sudo apt install -t daedalus-backports firmware-realtek
4. Reboot your system.
#7 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv » 2025-09-28 14:24:15
I don't know how new this adapter is. The firmware is from 2023, two years old. In any case installing the backports firmware is worth a try.
Linux kernel 6.2 was officially released on February19,2023 according to chatgpt. I'll give it a shot
Does the command
# modprobe rtl8xxxu
change anything?
It returned nothing and inxi is the same. So probably it did nothing.
How did you install Devuan? Which release are you using?
I installed Devuan from desktop-live ISOs.
#8 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv » 2025-09-28 11:24:12
- sysv_penguin
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Hello, I'm currently testing Devuan on my machine. everything is fine except my WiFi dongle. The RTL8188FTV/FU has been supported by the Linux kernel since 6.2.
I enabled backports and upgraded my kernel to 6.12. but nothing changed. Note that on the same machine, Ubuntu and any other distro with a recent kernel brings up the WiFi device, Devuan is the exception here.🙁
~$ inxi -N
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
Device-2: Realtek RTL8188FTV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R 2.4G WLAN Adapter type: USB
driver: N/Aon ubuntu 25 the output of inxi -N for my usb device is rtl8xxxu or something like that....
kernel version:
~$ uname -r
6.12.43+deb12-amd64~$ apt list --installed | grep realtek
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
firmware-realtek/stable,now 20230210-5 all [installed]maybe I should fetch this firmware from backports? IDK.
Regards.
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