fsmithred, unfortunately I could not see your post before.

I've made install with devuan_excalibur_6.0-20250605_amd64_netinstall.iso to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, AMD Radeon 890M. I've flashed it to usb flash drive (no ventoy, rufus etc).

Expert install.
First error: The missing firmware files are : iwlwifi-ty********

Second error: No network interfaces detected

Then "The system can be set up to symlink /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, respectively. ....If unsure, the safe choice is "No".
However, the default choice was Yes.
So,Yes.

Third error: Bad archive  mirror #of cause, there is no internet
Then "standard_system_utilities" - selected
"Update NVRAM variables to automatically boot into Devuan?" - Yes

Forth error: wpa_passphrase not found  #got it from https://packages.debian.org/trixie/wpasupplicant  unfortunately there is no such site for Devuan. Probably, wpasupplicant is stored somewhere in devuan_excalibur_6.0-20250605_amd64_netinstall.iso...
Then mounted Devuan flash drive to /media/cdroom to satisfy dependencies.
The same story with dhclient
Then tasksel, laptop....
Finally, apt install DE_of_choice (KDE) and reboot

I was able to log in successfully. To my surprise AMD graphics drivers and vulkan were installed.

BUT... shit happens. Fifth error: /EFI/debian is overridden. It was "debian" because devuan1 has been installed through migration. Why it's called "debian" again ?

Conclusion. Too complicated. May be it'll be simpler to install Devuan through Vmware on physical partitions and then boot normally?

Impossible. The installer does not detect network interfaces. I've only wireless. Guess how does it know which driver to request

I have the same issue with AMD Ryzen 9 HX 3700 and AMD Radeon 890M. Additionally, neither Excalibur nor Daedalus netinstall .iso images have WiFi support; they all require iwlwifi-ty* on an external USB drive. However, even when I provide it, Devuan is unable to find and use the driver.

I've tried almost everything. The workaround that worked for me:

1. Grab a Debian Bookworm netinstall .ISO (I did not find a proper way to replace systemd with something else in Debian Trixie). Bonus: It has a beautiful GUI installer and does not require WiFi drivers.
2. Replace systemd with something else as described here: https://lecorbeausvault.wordpress.com/2 … nit-runit/ (there is a new version of the guide, but the old one still works).
3. Then follow instructions from https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … o-daedalus except the part about init.
4. Now change your source.list to point to Excalibur and upgrade again (do not forget to apply usr merge).
5. Finally, boot into the new OS, install a DE, AMD, and Vulkan drivers.

There are still some issues:
- The display flickers when an app is in fullscreen mode (F11). To fix this, I disabled vsync in KDE display settings.
- After applying this fix, apps on Wine still flicker in full-screen mode (F11).
- MPV video flickering with gpu-api=vulkan. To fix this, use gpu-api=opengl. Strange, but there is no flickering on an external display.
- The AMD ROCM driver does not work with this card. There are no hardware limitations to using ROCm; it's just a decision by AMD not to make users' lives easier.
- amd RyzenAdj partly works. It doesn't display any info but applies changes. However, these can be easily overwritten by something else. No fix I've found (except to cron it to every 30 seconds).
- Anacron is broken and prevents shutdown. Fix: apt purge anacron."

May be try to reinstall virtualbox guest additions?

Apocalypse Now

Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/safe … -new-deal/

@zapper, yes, it's sarcasm

And now is time to fire out all chinese people, then all originated from BRICS countries. Witch hunt must go only.
The most trusted person is Bill Gates.

You have 3 options.

1. For qemu/KVM do

apt-get install --install-recommends aqemu qemu-kvm qemu-system qemu-utils libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils virt-manager libguestfs-tools libosinfo-bin

Additionally for home use you can

nano /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

add

user = "type_your_username_here"
group = "kvm"

sudo adduser `id -un` libvirt-qemu
sudo adduser `id -un` kvm
sudo adduser `id -un` libvirt-dnsmasq
sudo addgroup libvirtd
sudo adduser `id -un` libvirtd

/etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf

paste

#unix_sock_group = "libvirt"
#unix_sock_ro_perms = "0777"
#unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"

If no sudo, use doas.

Then you have to define default network, something like (I'm not sure here)

virsh define default
virsh net-autostart default

Do not forget to add /etc/init.d/libvirtd service to autostart in your init system.

Finally you'll get usable qemu/KVM solution. But this is probably the worst solution.
Reasons:
too many components
bad shared folders for windows guest (try to run complex software even from virtiofs, good lack)
bridge on wifi? good lack
it looks for file in /var/log/libvirt, so if you are mounting /var on tmpfs take care
HiDPI display and Linux guest? Good lack. I've to use qxl only, manually increase video ram and then manually add new xorg resolution in the guest. I still don´t know how to do it with wayland.

Better solutions are virtualbox (but extensions are proprietary and Oracle is well known. Or. just use guest tools with limited functionality) or vmware workstation (also proprietary, but not as much scary).

2. For virtualbox do

apt-get install module-assistant
m-a prepare

then you can use mx-linux repository. Their virtualbox is 100% compatible with devuan.

For daedalus do

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mxlinux.list

 deb https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free 

change bookworm to the previous version for chimaera (bullseye?)

then

nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/mxlinux

with the following context

Package: *
Pin: release a=mx
Pin-Priority: 100

go to

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m
get the keyring (mx21 is based on bullseye: wget https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/ … 9_all.deb)

apt-get install ./mx21-archive-keyring_2021.2.19_all.deb

apt-get update

Now you can install packages from mx-linux with lower priority only those that are not in devuan's repo, i.e. virtualbox.

3. Vmware Workstation is free for personal use now (from v. 17.5.2). Get the latest version and install it. It supports everything.

Then you can add this line

vmware-usbarbitrator

in /etc/rc.local

to have no problem with usb support.

If you've got this error

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

then do

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

When completely new linux kernel version is here, you have to recompile vmware kernel modules

they can be found here https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules

But I still have "no 3d support available from the host" error. I don't know how to force vmware to use 3d which is enabled on the host.

Also you can run existing windows installation in virtual machine it is not recommended.

Normally, you do not need extension pack which is proprietary. In most cases guest-tools are OK.

I found yet another way to install virtualbox:

wget https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx23-archive-keyring/mx23-archive-keyring_2023.6.6_all.deb
apt-get install ./mx23-archive-keyring_2023.6.6_all.deb

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mxlinux.list
deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bookworm main non-free
deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bookworm ahs

nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/mxlinux
Package: *
Pin: release a=mx
Pin-Priority: 100

apt-get update
apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

addgroup vboxsf
adduser your_user_name vboxsf
modprobe vboxdrv

nano /etc/modules   //add this line:
vboxdrv

Now you have fully functional virtualbox. It's for daedalus. For chimaera you can use

https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx21-archive-keyring/mx21-archive-keyring_2021.2.19_all.deb

and replace bookworm with bullseye

As a bonus mx repo contains a lot of useful software such as palemoon, tlpui, foliate etc.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/562388/ … is-running

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-d … 53719.html

Viruses on wine have happened.

...and if you run some app in wine? If the virus can be executed in wine it will be executed. Wine is compatibility layer that let them to be executed! Not all viruses, but some of them.

To my mind, the best way to deal with M$ is to separate windows from linux. Use virtualisation. There is no problem to add a shared folder to the guest in order to use antivirus on windows if it's necessary.

Did you try to purge firefox completelly ( ex.: "apt-get remove --purge firexox-esr" or "apt-get remove --purge firexox"  and reinstall it?