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#76 Re: Installation » low memory installation » 2021-05-20 21:10:41
Shhh it's a secret, the best sound in the olde worlde comes from that remarkably good soundcard in the asus eee pc 701 connected via rca to a sharp nsx-10
Due to bugs, I have to install lmde and upgrade to beowulf, I have a separate 0.5GB swap partition, 3.23 GB root, and the mate desktop.
Music comes from an SD card, usually 128 GB
Alternatively, I use one of these 701s in each room as slick monotasking pulsaudio receiver boxes. Even running firefox minimised playing youtube videos, the swap file is hardly used at all. Hibernation is intermittent but not needed.
#77 Re: Freedom Hacks » Using Aptitude config options to keep your system clean. » 2021-05-09 11:04:31
Aptitude::Autoclean-After-Update "true";
Aptitude::Clean-After-Install "true";
Aptitude::Purge-Unused "true";
APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false";
CAT::Please-Do-Not-The "false";
OR
what do these do please?
#78 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] How to change system to boot to text login instead of gui » 2021-05-04 12:37:34
Ah, not sure then, in that case. I've only ever installed full devuan with slim and devuan desktop once. Every other time it's either an ultra-minimal netinstall with lightdm and it's lightdm-gtk-greeter, or a conversion from LMDE 2 or 3, with lightdm being the default dm there, and using either slick-greeter or lightdm-gtk-greeter.
If you upgrade LMDE2 to LMDE3 and apt-mark hold sysvinit-core, you end up with dual boot where sysv manages to go graphical but systemd doesn't. Can't figure out how to keep this config through to buster/beowulf, sadly.,
#79 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] How to change system to boot to text login instead of gui » 2021-05-03 23:17:04
Just need to figure out how to disable it on startup (I don't want to completely uninstall it).
You mean on restartup or startup? For restartup, uninstalling the graphical greeter is perfectly acceptable. To change at startup you'd have to login as single user and uninstall or disable the greeter
A hack, to disable it, is to create a large file that leaves you with enough free disk space to boot but not enough to run the greeter. When you get your login, rm that file, and you can stay right there, or startx.
#80 Desktop and Multimedia » https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=pulseaudio » 2021-05-02 15:47:17
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No outstanding bug logged for audio settings persistence problem with mate desktop (mate-media).
How can I find out what's going on with this?
#81 Re: Devuan » As Debian 11 moves closer to Devuan. Is there any reason to stay on De » 2021-04-30 17:34:36
My heart races with excitement
LMDE 5 Essie, with dual boot sysV(0) and systmD("1>1") confirmed?
#82 Re: Installation » to what extent can /usr/share actually be shared? » 2021-04-27 04:12:16
Just do it - and see what happens!
I'm thinking this might be easier in this case because the systems will be on the same box so won't be live at the same time.
To test what might go wrong, I will just grab one system, image the /usr partition, apply updates, reimage the non-updated /usr, then boot up and see if there are complaints.
Ultimately my plan was maybe to host things like icons, themes, and backgrounds, on the network, but maybe there would be sync issues here if trying to share entire /usr/share dir?
#83 Re: DIY » Lowest memory footprint obtained. » 2021-04-26 10:31:13
No desktop - 18 MB
Desktop - 47 MB
Desktop, music player, networking, taskbar ~ 100 MB
#84 Installation » to what extent can /usr/share actually be shared? » 2021-04-26 05:37:53
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I have dabbled with systems sharing their /usr/share/icons directory, this is safe and all three had the same versions of icons installed.
What would happen if I tried to get LMDE 4 Debbie and a Minted Beowulf sharing the same /usr/share directory?
What about sharing the entire /usr directory? To what extent can the systems differ, or must they be packageclones of each other?
#85 Re: Other Issues » How to get rid of Swap file during installation... » 2021-04-26 05:30:34
Just let it do the install with a 1 MB (yes 1 megabyte) swap partition. After install, delete the swap partition and comment it out of fstab.
#86 Re: Freedom Hacks » runit --> sysvinit » 2021-04-24 16:23:14
Make enough space on the target machine to create a new partition for the test system? Is that too risky? Why do people keep having just one copy of each computer? It seems risky!
#87 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Chimaera alpha mate desktop audio.. » 2021-04-24 16:17:46
I've just done my fifth version of debbowulf. Totally removed desktop and everything else from lmde cindy, down to under 300 packages, then installed deadbeef, then commented out the multimedia repo.
Then installed mint artwork, then deleted most of mint artwork to make room, then installed xorg and basic mate desktop with no recommends. Then installed sysvinit-core.
Next, changed repos to lmde debbie and beowulf, and upgraded. 499 to upgrade, managed to do it all without a single part of my desktop getting uninstalled. Finally installed mate-media and reinstalled pulseaudio.
Then checked audio settings. All saved correctly. All this happened on a 2GB eee pc partition. (at some point, installed and removed bleachbit).
#88 Re: Off-topic » Gentoo, Slackware and more » 2021-04-19 09:03:21
4 MB! Luxury, My dad wrote a home accounting program in 1K on the ZX81.
Two years later, he bought a 16K rampack, Because tax rules changed, not because kids were showing promise on thru the wall.
#89 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-04-17 19:09:09
Fear of a blank panel.
#90 Desktop and Multimedia » Chimaera alpha mate desktop audio.. » 2021-04-17 18:48:12
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Have spent the day installing the latest alpha, which I found out about from distrowatch
Mate desktop, mate media. Like Beowulf, device profile is not persisting. Worryingly, volume settings are not persisting either. This is known. What I didn't know, is that selecting 'no sounds' results in sounds. Specifically, a squelch when using backspace.
Loosing settings is bad. Imposing unrequested multimedia is assault! OMG I hope this gets fixed but omg it is beyond me to log these bug data 
#91 Re: DIY » Minimalism Tips » 2021-04-14 11:00:37
I always to basic math on my portable desktop nokia c2-01 feature phone. Useful for calculating number of 8M blocks needed to backup anything from 1.1 to 7.51 GiB of eee pc drive.
#92 Re: Freedom Hacks » runit --> sysvinit » 2021-04-14 10:53:54
Why not put a system on the same machine, or on a disk, with the same config as your main system, and do the experiments on that test system first?
Just installing sysvinit-core has always removed runit for me.
#93 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Linux Mint Devuan Edition? » 2021-04-14 06:02:21
The problem with Beomint (Beo netinst then hacked to become robot debbie), is it does not start life as mint, and we know it, so to compensate, we want all mint apps to work. This is missing the point. We need lmdevuane because some mint apps never worked for us in the first place.
Update manager is always removed from my machines, it's an startup-annoyance. Mintsources is an enemy agent once you've defected. Mintmenu can be made to be mate-menu.
Start with cindy, upgrade to debbie with devuan sources, and all you'll want to keep is the artwork and maybe mintstick.
#94 Re: Installation » Just upgraded system on main machine to debbowulf » 2021-04-13 16:03:39
It doesn't go ahead anyway, instead suggesting
apt install --fix-broken, which may or may not help, then
apt upgradecompletes the download and it carries on. Only once had to download a third portion. Is there any choice in repos?
#95 Re: Installation » Just upgraded system on main machine to debbowulf » 2021-04-13 13:44:24
It's scary having messages about hashsummismatches, almost enough to make one doubt the security of repositories of smaller distro!
#96 Installation » Just upgraded system on main machine to debbowulf » 2021-04-13 09:56:15
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Having practised now four times on eee pc, thought it time to practice on main machine. Not main system for main machine (using now, installed to usb drive) which is on LMDE3, but the backup system, on the main hard drive, which was on LMDE2 cinnamon.
Mintupgraded it to LMDE3, switch to mate and stripped bloat, down to 700 packages.
Changed sources over to debbie and devuan. Upgraded. Ran into a bit of trouble. Removing libpam also removed network manager and then after upgrade the ifupdown connection wouldn't work so couldn't download eudev to install it! Luckily, systemd was still installed and bootable so rebooted into systemd and was able to download and install eudev and also elogind, libpam-elogind.
Noticed a worrying trend. Rarely does a download complete first time. Partial transfers and size mismatches. During the main upgrade, 284 MB of packages - 20 MB not downloaded due to size mismatches. Does this happen to anyone else?
I have cached all the downloaded packages so upgrade on main system will be, hopefully, smooth and download-free.
#97 Re: News & Announcements » X.Org ------> ex-org? » 2021-04-11 13:55:21
the "death" of x11 could be the birth of x12
I thought it would be x13?
x11 > x-accessibility (11 chars)
x13 > x-inaccessibility (13 chars)
(systemdusers - x-inaccessibilitylnsp0o1s0)
#98 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Strange gparted situation » 2021-04-11 10:53:47
oh my shock to find /etc/fstav totally blank
still embarrassed about /etc/default/pulse >_<
#99 Re: Freedom Hacks » Debbowulf is not to be confused with Beomint » 2021-04-11 10:44:04
Well, I have tried every conceivable way to get from LMDE2/3/4 to Beowulf with Mint, desktopless or otherwise, totally music-less or fully musically loaded, I CANNOT get the bug to happen.
It only happens on a clean Beowulf install, or an upgrade from Ascii, possibly?
It is beyond me to either investigate or log this. I would love to know if anybody is owning it?
Or is it a case of the bug, not being a bug, because nobody knows where it happens, despite it being user-observable and totally repeatable!
#100 Other Issues » Kernel plod? » 2021-04-10 18:17:23
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Caused an interesting situation, wondering if anyone can shed light on it? Forgot to resize /var after taking a disk image backup (it's good to loose /var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt-xapian-index and /var/lib/apt/lists to save space).
Rebooted fine but for some reason the system needed to create a new initramfs for new software, this filled /var and caused the system to complain. I could only get the keyboard to respond by typing hard and it was slow. Rebooted and the problem was the same. Eventually realised, used another live system to resize /var, updated, all fine again.
What was going on with the slow insensitive keyboard?
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