hello ,

would not like to look like a fool around here, but what "error" message made you conclude that the firmware is not correctly "deployed"?
that you could not login properly or not get a working GUI with the 7700s attached, or how else did you come to that conclusion?

having a hard time believing that hte 7700s would not funciton on Devuan 6 or 7, but am open to amazement.

if you however tried to install those drivers here
https://www.amd.com/en/support/download … ivers.html
that however could explain having issues since those drivers normally odnt function onn devuan linux , and are only since lately supported on debian (at least last time i tried it functioned).

i am surprised at the turn of the events. where you being offered a new mainboard or what prompted the replacement?

this is what AI overview offered

there should be mention of "amdgpu" in the result. also recommended by friend AI what the "vulkaninfo --summary".

so much for a fools errand.

@chomwitt

the shortcut proposed should suffice for the task at hand;

here are some hardinfo2 result for comparision

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hardinfo2
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(result not so relevant for Devuan)

CPU Blowfish (Single-thread)    16x 5582.00 MHz   58.44|
CPU Blowfish (Multi-thread)     16x 5582.00 MHz       556.95 |
CPU Blowfish (Multi-core)          16x 5582.00 MHz    441.33
SysBench CPU (Single-thread)  16x 5582.00 MHz    6342.99
SysBench CPU (Multi-thread)     16x 5582.00 MHz    50505.06

(these probably more influenced by OpenSource Drivers)

funnily GPU drawing got values for RX 7600 in the realms of NV 4070TI

GPU Drawing

(AMD Radeon RX 7600        2454.93) < (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER/PCIe/SSE2        2513.84)

and for GPU OpenGL Drawing came out one top?

(AMD Radeon RX 7600    4595.50) > (Radeon RX 7900 XTX    3512.29)

GPU Vulkan drawing not so fast

(AMD Radeon RX 7600    26607.16 ) < (AMD Radeon 8060S    43247.77)

Cache Memory

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X    163008.08|16x 5582.00 MHz
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have you tried installing the latest system drivers?
i reember found it difficult to find the proper driver packages for one NUC i bought 11th gen one time ] there should be one file that has them all, maybe you need a BIOS update;
uneducated guess, sorry.

ah, you got a ASUS NUC, that made it possibly more asiy to find the system driver. if anything, thats my guess.

you could do "sudo tasksel" and install from within xfce4 the cinnamon; maybe it got mixed up, and is missing some items; so you could clear it for you. with dual or more GUI things tend to becom messy, sometimes, unfortunately.

forgot to add, if you use dual-boot, need to check the tiem is "correct" this someit prevents things from happening in browserland.

and yes, different browser behave differently. am using satellite internet since few years and it has helped me solved quite some problems that otherwise would have taken me down the "vpn" route which is just cumbersome, not to speak of TOR, where does the captcha thing much more easily happen.
(it used to be difficult to achieve, now its just one click only solution, so probably not the big problem solver it is portrayed, but not in the know):

spci-fically ytb can use pipe-viewer

it functions well and lets you adapt to your favorite player.

https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer

hello ,

one command that can function is

sudo lsusb

it would likst you connected usb devices; if your cd drive is listed there, depends on wether it is an usb-connected-dvd/cd/bluray-drive in the first place, of course; sometimes, one usb port may have gone bit loose and wont power the usb-drive enough, that could be an issue;
if it is sata drive, the command is another one, which dont have present; but sometimes, depending on distro, had also issues with DVD drive not showing up properly; but it could be also that the drive itself is bit faulty, which happens; i have a newer bluray drive now which i cherish quite; to me, it is still an essential part of computer.

for making camera visisble, think it depdens a bit on the firmware of the camera; but in principle, linux is a lot more flexible than say macos with cameras, and you should have no problem whatsoever pulling the pictures off it.

EDIT: now that you mention it, found that my bluray-drive is also not listed under "devices" which is a bit odd; however, when i put a media into it, the device suddenfly shows-up.
i use Mate Desktop atm; and the Caja File manager seems rather limited, or not so much updated since a  while (may be wrong about it; credits syy 1999-2009, 2011-2021) version 1.26.4)

hello ,
you should not have issues with internal and external gpu loaded, they can both be used;
my computer has 9700x (with raphael igpu) and rx 7600, and both can be used on devuan excalibur;

you need to make sure to install devuan properly, best in uefi mode.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/r … 700s.c4015
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/r … 7600.c4153

EDIT:
also the radeom 860m should be supported by excalibur, but maybe since gorgone point newer release, you could have more luck with devuan 7.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-860m.c4289

you could test this by using devuan only without the rx 7700s, and see i you still have the same issue; if so , would try to use devuan 7 (provided you have devuan properly in the first place). or install devuan 6 again, but from another boot-medium (like dvd-r) or via boot-stick; there are some settings in BIOS that effectively shut-out the iGPU, but don§t remember what actually determines if the iGPU gets properly recognized or not (had also Linux install where only the dGPU got recognized properly after install of amdgpu drivers for example, but in principle both should be able to function)

this is how it look like on "geekbench" info-table for devuan 6 excalibur

Vulkan
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------------+
| Platform ID | Device ID | Description                                  |
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------------+
| 0           | 0         | AMD Radeon RX 7600 (RADV NAVI33)             |
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------------+
| 0           | 1         | AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO) |
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------------+
| 0           | 2         | llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits)             |
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------------+

@RecklessEpoch if forced you need to use a WiFi there is things called "Travel Router" that lets you bridge and use an Ethernet cable on device instead, but myself never used one, cannot vouche for it.

on first years of University, remember the scarce laptop positions used to have shared spaces, with 3 ethernet cables, so you got to sit around a table(t), and actually chit-chat if you wanted, that was rather nice!

nowadays is focered wiFi and no Fun at all.

@clueless, if you using ZFS, might readily be more advanced in the computing then me here;
however, the GT 730 according to Techpowerup conly hdmii 1.3a, so you might not fare well with 4k;
even the GT 710 has hdmi 1.4; and might be luckier for higher resolution, but that might also be wrong info on the side of techpowerup (/which happens sometimes)

have checked again, and found that the devuan box mentioned has the proper driver installed; but don't asked how it is done; it is elaborated probably only thanks to this post from user in southern france, that shared the respective kernel patch or something.

happy landing on devuan.

used this software when i had problems installing scanner on linux; getting to function.

it is good for testing purpoese, but leaves a watermark.
(trial full-version)

https://www.hamrick.com/