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I have trouble w/ Proprietary drivers as well. I just leave it at that and try to avoid using them when possible. Others mentioned AMD cards play much much nicer with Devuan.
The Nvidia drivers, are not the ideal firmware. As it install now, it works but it seems some firmware gets left out and persistenced doesn't seem to work which might be a good thing in regards to freedom.
I apologize I still don't understand. I have always just used dd to get a bootable iso.
mkisofs -o NAME_OF_ISOIMAGE -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ISO_ROOT_OF_FILES
Do I replace NAME_OF_ISOIMAGE with the location of the iso?
also what do I replace ISO_ROOT_OF_FILES with?
I have working Iso, However, I had used refracta snapshot to get it. It dd s just fine. (So I am in no rush to try a minimal and build a new one but I noticed I have over 1500 packages trying to debloat a bit .
Issue is, isn't -b bios boot only?(wow this conjunction xD) I would like to get a EFI booting Iso. would I use -e instead?
I am happy with bios boot on my thinkpad, however, sometime EFI is easier to work with as I'm planning to make a more minimal Iso. (so I may have 2 partitions temporarily for easier backups) Maybe, eventually I'll remove the efi grub tools.
PS: I have not tried rufus on windows. last time I used that was probably couple years ago when I did my first bare metal install not counting wheezy on a pi. Now I'd prefer to build the iso on linux. DD has worked fine up untill now. If mkisofs is the best way to do things I'd gladly switch and figure it out.
Yeah I noticed the hash was changing after running dd command.
I got the hash to match if I dd it into a partition rather than just the root of the drive.
Pulse I noticed has the ability to work with multichannel headphone jacks where ALSA struggles.
Which, I am no ALSA guru and have not been able to pipe the audio to my headphone jack. Might have something to do with realtek, but realtek in itself has proven to have nasty 'bugs' or intended functionality.
Also Pulse has a fair amount of dependencies which is a pain to deal with. Installing pulse on a system without pulse is actually annoying because it seems to require a full restart to get it working or maybe some fooling around with running Daemons.
I have tried the minimal and live desktop recently because the ISO i have been snapshotting only started recently having some difficulty doing a full disk encryption.
Also I wanted to start with a minimal install and only include the packages I need to have a lighter iso.
However, downloading and verifying the check sum seemed to match for the iso.
When I dd it onto a USB. Try to boot to it, I get grub but than an error it wont boot the kernel. Missing magic number you need to load the kernel first'.
Not sure what went wrong. Usually that's all I need to do is dd it to a bootable USB and check the hash.
I only use alsa as well. Works great.
Although, I have issues with one laptop I bought at an auction for cheap.
It's a skylake, it pipes audio on some multi channels. The speakers on on the second device so changing the default gives you speakers.. But the headphone jack doesn't work, maybe it requires realtek. However, I know lots of Realtek laptops loose all audio on windows, when it updates. (same laptop model btw) dell latitude 7450.
Now, I may not be wearing a tinfoil hat atm. But sometimes I do, hasn't happened to me but others regarding realtek and it has re-occured. They let windows auto manage the updates. I wouldn't run windows on a laptop. Now, I heard something Mossad had some thing where they figured with realtek drivers they can turn headphones into microphones. Neat. I discovered it when I was searching web for known realtek vulnerabilities
A lot of games from Steam via Proton/SteamPlay works fine (even those which doesn't work on windows anymore). The only thing is needed for now is to install recent Mesa and Vulkan drivers. Devuan is a good solution because Devuan Ceres has everything required for that.
This is interesting, considering with Nvidia. the Persistanced daemon is a hard dependency on Nvidia driver. Which does not even seem to work for me.
Although, this begs the question if app armour and the modprobe setup on devuan is rather hardened or there is some kind of proprietary dependency or lock down on nvidia's part? Or the package isn't compiled just right for devuan. The driver works, just anything to do with vulkan does not.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=239926
seems like similar issue. Except caused by the only feature of systemd I like. See post 15
Edit: found a post online, where a debian user solved not getting nvidia-persistenced running by disabling Secure boot on his machine.. Yeah, no thanks ^.^
Anyway, proton I still have never used seems kinda cool tech wise. I just find it super cheeky how many games came pre-installed on the minimal installation of Devuan lol. Total waste of space
Use refractainstaller-yad. It's a lot easier than Ubuntu's installer. IMHO.
If you upgrade to Beowulf, as it's unstable your PATH will break
also your bootloader-id will need to be set to debian. You can do this in chroot if you reboot before restarting.
All the non-free-firmware are in /firmware. There is a local command
remove-non-free-firmware
which will purge all the non-free packages
also refractasnapshot will create a snapshot of your install including home. Than you can dd it to a usb for easy imagining.
Other than that, beowulf is on 4.19 and Ceres is on 5.2.0-2.
have fun, witamy
I installed the Rasbian Devuan Image for arm on a Raspi 3.
I just used dd to the SD card on my laptop and it booted up fine.
Although I filled the SD card now I am getting some errors even after freeing some space.
I'll probably have to re-flash it at some point.
It was an ascii image.
I used it to mess around on systems
I use only ALSA just for simplicity sake. I only use one output so ALSA does that perfectly.
It's like using an ipod Classic to me, using a single headphone jack and nothing more. Seems more direct and I hear complaints of Pulse of latency. However, it's probably impossible to notice.
And when you remove pulse it's unfortunate you have to have a un-usable mixer in Xfce menu, just wasting space lol. When all you needed was a terminal for alsamixer.
Any one with experience setting up their secure boot?
I have secure boot enabled on two systems. However, when I check the status it's either on setup mode or bios says it is off.
The laptop I have custom keys setup and loaded into the bios. However, I turn on secure boot in bios. It boots to grub. I check setting in the bios again and it's on. But, I can boot to usb and it mentions secure boot being off. The bios setting is set to on however, now with custom keys.
Acting as if it was off. When it's on with default keys. It stays on, and wont but into grub.
Not sure if I set it up properly having trouble finding a guide that has worked yet. Any one figure out how to set up custom keys on Devuan? I know every bios is a bit different but I may have missed a step. I get an error running on of the last commands on gentoo guide.
No efivarfs filesystem is mounted.
It's odd behaviour but with the proper packages, and grub installed.
grub-install --uefi-secure-boot --bootloader-id=debian
I can boot with secure boot on. However, boot behavior seems identical and status seems to be off. Even though it's on in the bios.
Well this may be related.
I have the same issue when I install non-free nvidia drivers. Which for freedom sake should be avoided.
I noticed screen flashing after using su command after restarting on older backported version. (after just installing.) I figure the driver is rooting your system. I think I figured the way to stop it from happening. It has happened on Ubuntu as well, so. Not a devuan problem.
I'm not 100% sure what the flashing screen indicates. However, I am 100% sure this only happens after installing non-free nvidia drivers. Using su, entering my password, after I hit enter. The screen flashes as if a terminal opened and closed quickly. Just after installing and resetting computer to switch to nvidia driver.
Now I don't get that issue anymore, I think it is caused by a free program that's there for convenience which is pre-installed on a lot of systems. But I think debian is moving away from it now.
However, I do get the nvidia failed to install first thing from Init. As well, it seems to work fine. However, I only ran into problems trying to get Vulkan working. I can't seem to get nvidia-persistenced work. I can install it but I believe it's not working for SysV init. Even though it starts up and is running when I run the system.
Apparently needed to run vulkan. I tried using nvidia-smi tool to activate persistence mode without the nvidia-persistenced daemon but yeah. Didn't solve my problem :) It said it was in persistence mode. Don't think nvidia's documentation is all that honest. So, I will probably try to stick with AMD cards in future.
I'd ask them for the .ovpn config files. If you paid for the service you shouldn't require anything special to access their server. Although , Itried asking for Purism's librem 1 VPN if they would have config files so you could just start a tunnel from the terminal. They said it wasn't ready yet.
Seemed like a load of bullocks how a user Gui would be easier to release than a config file. But I dunno maybe it's more complicated than I thought. Or running ovpn configs with keys in them degrades their service some how.
PIA is good for it, you can wget a zip file with all their server configs. Or go to their site to generate a new one if you want to change the hand shake hashing for instance. It works like openvpn should.
Could be the way your bios is reading the boot instructions. Although if it's not mounting somthing odd is happening.
I know it's a stretch but try pulling the battery out of your laptop and re-seat the ram. If you can't mount it from a live image than something went amiss while your lid was closed.
have you tried chrooting and re-installing? Or efibootmgr from a live image?
Are you using MBR boot? If so installing a new system can overwrite the old one.
dpkg -r --force-depends pulse-audio
You could always force it but if you have dependencies. Aptitude will complain about unmet dependencies. So I don't recommend this
apt purge pulse-audio should remove most of it.
The cookie and a few folders will get left behind though. Just thought I'd mention it leaves a few files if you want to clean up a bit.
I tried to download me_cleaner and reboots begun to happen more often during I was reading the docs. I have disconnected Ethernet Internet, but reboots continue.
You know if you don't remove ME correctly your system will reset in 30 minutes.
As for the radio, maybe you have a point. Depends on motherboard every implementation is different.
Although, if you are paranoid you can run wire shark 24/7 looking for this stuff.
My desktop shouldn't have wifi or bluetooth capabilities. Although, I remember having issues with Ccleaner back when they had a bad version.
Intel ME has a network stack. As do some Uefi Bios.
As for the reboots, you are running Libre boot?
Your motherboard may not be compatible there is the "BUP" partition. Although I might not be recalling it correctly. If your ME version is anything newer than the Core 2 duo series you probably can't libre boot that hardware.
I got the same thing as go linux, not many depends there. Only 3 packages. To be fair I don't think I need this network discovery tool
Pulse audio however, while it is convenient. Removing it borks XFCE meta package.
I was manually changing the rc scripts in the /etc/rcX.d directories.
Than I discovered update-rc.d. Much easier, much faster and everything is in plain text. I don't think I could go back after discovering how simple it is to manage start up.
As for run levels I watched some talks referring to run levels -3. Now your init may have control everything below 0. but everything above that.
UEFI and BIOS.. ext. Have access to the hardware .
It's important to get an early start to get into OS. I noticed this when I was using windows. I had a program called Spy Shelter Firewall. If it doesn't start early all the stuff you don't want running will run if it starts before your program. But managing start programs with task manager is a joke. Not sure why they removed sysconfig but that is off topic . So lack of Init freedom feels very Windoz to say the least.
Alright time for a fresh Gentoo install.
Although to be fair arch 'stable' is like unstable on backports so, although I do notice arch forums are full of help threads so it can't be all that bad.
I was a little upset with the updates to Mozilla at first, although now I can grab no script right from Mozilla's addons and not have to use the legacy version.
Ublock origin is working for me here on the stable release. There was a bug on one release where add-ons stopped working and needed to allow addons in unsecured way, which is fixed now.
I noticed though, now on my laptop which only has one set of speakers I just use pure alsa. Firefox works, I notice I can use it with only ALSA which is much appreciated.
Thanks guys, I think that solves that.
do you have to run after changing bashrc?
. .bashrc
Thanks, I ran
echo $PATH
I just figured out a bit more of linux. I can see the bright side in this. I put openvpn, in /usr/bin. Or /usr/local/bin.
Well I don't want to bloat it by copying all the old commands if they still working in /bin.
Thanks for the reply, I think I figured it out. However adding /sbin to the path would be ideal, anyone know how to go about this?
I found the autoremove is pretty useful for a lot of lib packages.
For gui's and desktop interfaces.. well lets just say some are more bloated and chalked full of dependencies than others.
I have sheer broken cinnamon on mint because of this.
I've also ended up booting to console all thanks to auto remove .
I have updated ascii to beowulf.
changing the sources.list
However I updated a few packages at a time, trying to prevent any breakage.
Yet, still managed to break a few things. Maybe it's after I removed systemd0. Installing udisks2.
Here's what I noticed, I moved from a stable ascii, from /usr/sbin/openvpn and put it in the beowulf install.
I can run the openvpn. However, it broke all the links. Even if I put the new file in /usr/sbin
I can't run openvpn without using ./ and redirecting the .ovpn scripts to the certificates.
Sadly same goes for update-rc.d. It's also missing, I have updated everything but grub at this point.
I can run it, but I have to manually copy the /sbin/update-rc.d and run it from location. I am not sure how to re-establish the symlinks manually
I tried uninstalling openvpn and reinstalling. Nothing worked. Checked dependencies but apt said it's all good as well.
thanks man this is awesome, I'll make a fresh install at some point and pack this into a live iso.
Apparently experimental.
I've used it many times without fail now.
When you do make a separate home partition, the partition which contains your old home folder must not get wiped. You must have your old user accounts home directory in the root of the partition.
Only issue I have had is when transitioning. If you make a new user name. On the log in screen, if you enter your password right it will try to log in than keep you at the log in. So if that happens log in as root.
Change the directory name to your user name and you should be good to go.
I found it easy if you already separated root and home partitions. Made it work very smoothly if you reuse your user name as well. Just make sure you point the installer to the right partition and it won't wipe it .
I don't know much about having multiple users and different IDs so maybe it might not work properly across a different distribution. Although, your data won't get wiped. Although, I imagine on an lukscrypt it wouldn't be so simple