Hei Altoid.

I went through the same procedure as you did, upgraded from ASCII to Beowulf; so, I don't think it has to do with that.
KWallet is working but, if I remember correctly, I had some issues initially; think I started from scratch and deleted every (user) kwallet associated files and repopulated the walletDB.

Not a good answer, and no proper solution, but that's how I believe I did manage to get the KWallet back working.
If you investigate further, which I didn't, you'll probably find a better way; the meaning of this reply was to state that it definitely may work!

Best of luck,
Olav

I'm a bit nostalgic, used to play (occasional «now» as well) some old games on it.
CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III, still running fine!
GPU: (PCI) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_FX_series.
Upgraded (spinning) hard-drives, but with 1999 original mother-board and RAM.

If you are very interested Andy, I will give you all the current hardware details; I booted it up last probably a year ago, no trouble I presume!

When I first installed Linux and SuSE 9.1 ... , it was newer hardware; it was a Dell from 2002/3 with a Pentium 4 CPU, I threw away Windows and started

Cheers,
Olav

Beside the point all of this!

My former main-computer (day to day) was an Intel Q{xxx}, from 2007 (until 2019) I think?
I gave it away to my mum, but when I had it, it were constantly on; I think it is like that now as well; running all the time, without trouble (changed HD's of course).

My oldest OS is running on devices from 1999; SuSE 9.1. is installed now, I am a bit nostalgic.

Trouble with kernel, try to compile it yourself; it isn't too hard really; I started out with music as focus, building Linux DAWs; bit of a struggle, but got there in the end

Hi again.
I'm very happy with Devuan; but, what I actually wanted to point out (or thought I wanted to) was the viability of a non-systemd Linux environment, hence referring to those statistics.

OK
No, I did not know that DistroWatch were bullshit, and yes, that was what I refered to;
sorry about it!

OK

Still strange though; you should have the same options in expert mode.
In any-case, hope you find a good solution and do well, and enjoy Devuan!!

Cheers,
Olav

Hei.

No, this is a strange case, ext4 is on all mine partitions.
Maybe you could elaborate a bit more on: hardware, install medium, procedure ...?

https://wiki.debian.org/iwlegacy

I believe Head_on_a_Stick and fsmithred might be on the track.

Cheers,
Olav

It's really a sad mess this, PulseAudio does not offer anything which were not available in the first place; PA is just an unnecessary layer!
More of a mess comes from development thinking this is the future.

It may be that there is an issue with the legacy driver, I don't know.

But one thing I have experienced is that combining the official repoes and backports may result in conflicts; I haven't followed the thread closely so might have overlooked if you'we already done this, but I would try to get rid of all NVIDIA packages, disable the backports repo and start a fresh.

BTW, I have two computers running Beowulf, I have no issues with them; the problem I refer to was with ASCII, I learned from that and has not tried the same approach which gave me problems in ASCII on Beowulf.

Olav

I run the proprietary NVIDIA driver without any issues on Beowulf, no lock-ups on my two computers I run this OS on (NVIDIA 970 and 760, respectively); I use the NVIDIA packages from the repo.

One thing though, if one has enabled the «backports» repo when installing the NVIDIA driver packages one might come into package conflicts; at least that was my experience a couple of times in ASCII. If this is the case, one might try removing all NVIDIA packages, disable «backports» and try again.
Just a suggestion.

Cheers,
Olav