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#126 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » OpenCL/AMDGPU-PRO? » 2025-10-12 09:05:54
you should be able to use opencl also without rocm, since it is supposed only for newer graphic cards (at least to my understanding).
what i use is "amdgpu-install" and since few iterations whas also able to get opencl on polaris gpu with the --opencl=legacy. (it is now however deprecated)
but devuan is bit tricky since it is not officially supported, as debian, but i can function (with some tricks).
what is use on newer graphics card that is supported by opencl rocr stack is combination like
sudo amdgpu-install -y --usecase=workstation,amf --opencl=rocr --vulkan=pro,amdvlk --accept-eula
afterwards what is needed for opencl (at least on my computer)
sudo usermod -a -G render $LOGNAMEsudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAMEhttps://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/e … lling.html
for rocm, it seems your graphic cards are not supported aswell, but to be honest i am not seeing trough all those different install routines and graphics stacks.
#127 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » "Partial ACPI Installation" on MacBook5,2 » 2025-10-10 15:23:05
oh, thanks altoid,
was wrong laying blame prematurely,
this is great info, resurfced!
there was however special needed for keyboard layout to get "tilde" "email-key" etc on mac keyboard etc. if am not mistaken, could have been covered elsewhere, and depends naturally also on the specific keyboard layout being used.
#128 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] (alsa) arateconf not saving properly » 2025-10-10 14:56:21
oh, thank you, now i see why the raspi would fail to play several streams at once when pipewire/pulse uninstalled, since it would lack probably this fftrate (arateconf ddid not compile yet)
however , am not good at telling stories, so will confine myself for the time being at listening;
this one liked , still to heed its advice
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw52Its0YKU&list=RDaw52Its0YKU&start_radio=1
#129 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] (alsa) arateconf not saving properly » 2025-10-10 13:31:16
will check on raspi for your commands, very helpful, thanks.
on this computer here , the apulse shows, would not uninstall it, but was just wondering why it is shown as "active" probably not using it atm.
/tmp/movescreen-master$ inxi -Axxx
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801JD/DO HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3a6e class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / 560/560X]
vendor: Sapphire driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aae0 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-40-amd64 status: kernel-api with: apulse
type: pulse-emulator
rich@devuan:/tmp/movescreen-master$ inxi -Sxxx
System:
Host: devuan Kernel: 6.1.0-40-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 12.2.0 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel
wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: SLiM v: 1.4.0 Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5
(daedalus)
rich@devuan:/tmp/movescreen-master$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
XFCEEDIT: but maybe this apulse is needed for kernel so that alsa can play several streams at the same time=?
#130 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » "Partial ACPI Installation" on MacBook5,2 » 2025-10-10 11:13:31
still have lubuntu 12 on a macbook pro1.1 picked up on ebay as replacement for a broken powerbook g4 years ago;
it is dualboot macos x / lubuntu , but was difficult to setup; would not have succeeded without a proper guide and a few tweaks that were offered i think as an ubuntu help page (espcially also for keyboard layout).
unfortunately ubuntu website has "received" a major overhault and cannot find the help page any longer since it could have had contained valuable information even when compared to a newer macbook5,2.
but i think with the newer macbook you will have much less issues and with devuan maybe less so so good luck for the usage.
#131 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] (alsa) arateconf not saving properly » 2025-10-10 10:28:11
have re-install RasPiOS Bookworm since it give me no issues when uninstalling Pipewire/Pulseaudio; think it is based on MATE but could be wrong; have not used Gnome 2 quite some time; mate is not my favorite, but have fond memories of Debian Squeeze.
on another computer running Devuan 5.0 after uinstalling Pulseaudio now it shows
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-31-amd64 status: kernel-api with: apulse
type: pulse-emulatoris this proper alsa or do i still need to uninstall packages?
don't use bluetooth anymore most of times since it is considerable health hazard; but previously liked to connect Ipad to Internet via Bluetooth PAN which function well, less so with Android models. Nowadays it is implemented also on Gnome3; but it proably best to ditch/skp 2.4Ghz frequency altogether. certainly using Bluetooth Emitter on your head is next to foolish (but then i am using a Smartwatch that has also Bluetooth, so who am i to call out folishness; but atleast i can use AirPlane Mode on the watch and it still give me most of functionality, but still consider me part big time foolish to use it).
#132 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] (alsa) arateconf not saving properly » 2025-10-09 12:30:57
@igorzwx,
thanks, it would function for 22.1 linux mint, but not for 22.2, maybe on mate yes, but i tried cinnamon.
also big issues for raspios trxie, there is however possibility to start from non-desktop and go from there , but one gets a very trimmed-down desktop, which one 2GB ram can be also blessing; however, the raspi-os desktop is rather polished, nice (mate).
if you want, i'll send you my raspi4 so you can check out with arateconf , since it seem not function on arm64 (build failure) but maybe jsut doing it wrong;
best of wished
(KDE is bit lame on forum etc, but overall the desktop is quite nice, atleast is was previously, and audio offered more tuning option).
#133 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » how renew DHCP lease? » 2025-10-08 11:48:51
thanks , hte command felt wrong to me ,
maybe "sudo ifdown eth0" is the proper one;
however it would be nice if it could be done from taskbar etc.
it seems there is no toggle to release the dhcp;
maybe only possible to "disable" first +save and then renew by automatic dhcp +save.
#134 Desktop and Multimedia » how renew DHCP lease? » 2025-10-07 18:43:55
- kapqa
- Replies: 4
hello ,
on an older computer have installed devuan 5.0 and it function beautifully,
maybe it was update from devuan 3.0 and then 4.0 , but one thing seem missing,
since the network icon is missing some "action".
now when i was switching router, the network was not coming back up;
so i wanted to "release" dhcp to renew the lease, but it would not find it then menu.
please show on how to remedy the situation;
i did the other terminal command
sudo ifup eth0 down
sudo ifup eth0 up
to no avail;
thank you very much
#135 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] (alsa) arateconf not saving properly » 2025-10-07 17:35:07
could be that uninstalling pipewire getting more difficult and resulting in similar troubles as with Debian 7 and uinstalling Pulseaudio at time;
tried with RaspiOS latest /(based on Trixie) and it would lead to broken Desktop/Black Screen and just cursor moving;
tried with Linux Mint 22.2 (based on Ubuntu 24.04 noble, although hardinfo2 reports it based on Debian testing/sid) and uninstalling pipewire seem difficult
inxi -Axxx
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 13:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 13:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-33-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pipewire pipewire-bin pipewire-pulse
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'pulseaudio' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'pavucontrol' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'pulseaudio-module-bluetooth' is not installed, so not removed
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
pipewire-alsa : Depends: pipewire (= 1.0.5-1ubuntu3.1) but it is not going to be installed
pipewire-audio : Depends: pipewire-pulse
Depends: wireplumber but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.but this is bit out of place since Devuan just function really well, thanks for that.
#136 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Can't even install yt-dlp in Devuan 6, many things are broken » 2025-10-07 09:44:05
only recently started having problems with youtube
at one point it even started to translate automatically without my consent, even when like native language being played.
but for the moment it subsided<
sometimes yt-dlp give also issues altesly , so could update to newer version
yt-dlp --update-to nightly#137 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Can't even install yt-dlp in Devuan 6, many things are broken » 2025-10-06 19:12:12
nothing wrong, but thought that one is @dead longtime ago since it seemed riddled with legal battles or what
https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
EDIT> last time i tried , it was superslow downloading everything at around kbps speeds.
#138 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Open nvidia drivers only use Mesa as renderer » 2025-10-06 16:51:43
if you use a newer graphics card (as ur info suggest), then you should have not problem with wayland.
however, my experience on kubuntu was that on 24.04/24.10 it would not function as desired; wayland support was just experiementela but with 25.04/25.10 there was very good wayland support,
so maybe it has also a bit to do with the OS you are using and daedalus 5.0 may be too old for good wayland?
you are to closed driver, you can search the forum , there are quite some topic about nvidia, and people are more knowledgeable about it. i think nvidia made it bit more confusing on installing nvidia drivers with the nameing scheme lately, but that should not be the issue.
#139 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Driverless printing » 2025-10-06 15:29:06
found that this has downsides and upsides;
have one ricoh printer with ethernet (geljet) that previously was not easily available outside of windows/server/macos and now is;
as downside,
my epson printer was ethernet/wifi/usb connectivity, and even when installing the proper epson driver, would not show the driver available in cups; unless i would de-install the package "ipp-usb" and then magically the usb-driver would show up in cups;
it might not be big issue for most, but with original driver, the command over usb get sent like more instant, whereas over ipp-usb there is bit of delay.
#140 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Synaptic No Longer Shows Repositories » 2025-10-04 16:03:25
thanks rolfie,
thought i have the same issue somewhat;
maybe error is releated to pulseaudio not being present, since getting more and more issues;
like here
kazam
WARNING Kazam - Failed to correctly detect operating system.
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/backend/prefs.py:342: PyGIWarning: Gst was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
from gi.repository import Gst
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.py", line 219, in start
raise PAError(PA_UNABLE_TO_CONNECT, "Unable to connect to PulseAudio server.")
kazam.pulseaudio.error_handling.PAError: (4, 'Unable to connect to PulseAudio server.')
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/kazam", line 149, in <module>
app = KazamApp(datadir, dist, args.debug, args.test, args.nosound, args.silent)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/app.py", line 120, in __init__
prefs.pa_q.start()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kazam/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.py", line 221, in start
raise PAError(PA_UNABLE_TO_CONNECT2, "Unable to initiate connection to PulseAudio server.")
kazam.pulseaudio.error_handling.PAError: (5, 'Unable to initiate connection to PulseAudio server.')#141 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Synaptic No Longer Shows Repositories » 2025-10-03 15:30:25
hello ,
i would need to insert an entry into repositories and would like to use Synaptic;
is there an easy solution available for Devuan Daedalus+ to show repositories in Synaptic `?
thanks.
sudo synaptic
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 100, in <module>
app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 162, in __init__
SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 108, in __init__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 605, in reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 89, in get_sources
raise NoDistroTemplateException(
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Devuan/daedalus#142 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Error Sylpheed upon start (G FILENAME ENCODING NOT SET) » 2025-09-30 13:20:11
thank, now it functions!
#143 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] LibreOffice install failing (daedalus ARM64) » 2025-09-30 13:16:44
tried this today and could download libreoffice regularly
downloaded latest arm64 for daedalus here
arm-files.devuan.org (latest raspberry pi builds however)
#144 Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Error Sylpheed upon start (G FILENAME ENCODING NOT SET) » 2025-09-30 12:08:55
- kapqa
- Replies: 2
Hello ,
i am wanting to use the program emailclient Sylpheed for arm64
on Devuanpi am presented with the following error>
Is it safe to continue or how could i best clear this error message?
thanks.
#145 Re: Installation » firefox on old 32 bit cpu » 2025-09-27 16:50:33
lke also this browser
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
deb files
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntu … lla-build/
AI companion:
For Windows, you'd need to locate the last version that supported older CPUs not supporting the SSE2 instruction set, which is SeaMonkey 2.40.
#146 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (alsa) changin soundcard easily via terminal » 2025-09-24 16:41:39
thank you guys, the sound was only muted.
it is not so easy to figure out also with alsamixer in terminal, since it says @00 or @mm
but sound is back.
will check the script asaw.
#147 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (alsa) changin soundcard easily via terminal » 2025-09-24 15:19:45
could not test the script yet,
after uninstall ing pulseaudio and reboot there is no longer sound
aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
lavrate
Rate Converter Plugin Using Libav/FFmpeg Library
samplerate
Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library
speexrate
Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler
jack
JACK Audio Connection Kit
oss
Open Sound System
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
speex
Plugin using Speex DSP (resample, agc, denoise, echo, dereverb)
upmix
Plugin for channel upmix (4,6,8)
vdownmix
Plugin for channel downmix (stereo) with a simple spacialization
hw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=Headphones
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Headphones
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Direct sample mixing device
usbstream:CARD=Headphones
bcm2835 Headphones
USB Stream Output
hw:CARD=vc4hdmi0,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-0, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=vc4hdmi0,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-0, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=vc4hdmi0
vc4-hdmi-0, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=vc4hdmi0
vc4-hdmi-0, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Default Audio Device
hdmi:CARD=vc4hdmi0,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-0, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=vc4hdmi0,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-0, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Direct sample mixing device
usbstream:CARD=vc4hdmi0
vc4-hdmi-0
USB Stream Output
hw:CARD=vc4hdmi1,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-1, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=vc4hdmi1,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-1, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=vc4hdmi1
vc4-hdmi-1, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=vc4hdmi1
vc4-hdmi-1, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Default Audio Device
hdmi:CARD=vc4hdmi1,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-1, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=vc4hdmi1,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi-1, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Direct sample mixing device
usbstream:CARD=vc4hdmi1
vc4-hdmi-1
USB Stream Output
$ i think it is because alsa-base is missing?
#148 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (alsa) changin soundcard easily via terminal » 2025-09-24 14:49:30
alsamixer wont be of much use if there is no alsa functioning on devuanpi+
is that even possible?
but if i evoke
xfce4-terminal -e 'alsamixer -c vc4hdmi0' the sound does not magically change from headphone to vc4hmi0
clearly the alsamixer is lacking some beats nowadays.. o r i am getting deafer.
thanks, will have to uninstall pulseaudio first and then try your scipt, provided alsa/audio is still functioning.
#149 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (alsa) changin soundcard easily via terminal » 2025-09-24 14:22:14
ok, yes, that would be very nice, one click or more.
now if alsamixer opens for Headphones, but it should also switch source, does it do it?
probably not.
#150 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (alsa) changin soundcard easily via terminal » 2025-09-24 13:37:24
@igorzwx for now it functions oso we could also lay it to rest<
had to install xfce4 anyway because otherwise would not get a desktopZ
devuanpi as i understand it is a work in progress and many thing still dont function as they could.
but for the alsamixer situation think some cannibalising has occured very sad that features being castrated dont like at all
so there is hope that a revival will bring some nice feature to this mixer that makes it easy to swtich sources.
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