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#126 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS? » 2025-08-06 19:36:28

I am using a Kyocera P6230 LAN printer with a PPD supplied by Kyocera. Before that I owned a FS-5100DN.

#128 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-28 13:05:33

Just updated my laptop which is still running Chimaera for a reason, and I saw that no release file is present for backports anymore.

Why is Chimaera backports removed? Why is Chimaera different from e.g. Beowulf where backports still is present in the archive?

#129 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-28 12:33:41

Sorry, you seem to have a silly idea how Devuan works. Even if the Debian 11 Bullseye backports is archived in Debian, it does not mean it will be archived in Devuan Chimaera. Though stopping support for Bullseye backports in Debian means that there will be no new packages coming in from Debian any more for that release.

#131 Re: Other Issues » Sync of daedalus-backports <-> bookworm-backports? » 2025-07-25 07:20:50

what about chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org?

Chimaera isn't yet archived.

#133 Re: Installation » Fresh install vs dist-upgrade for next release » 2025-07-24 16:51:26

I do either one depending on the situation. If there is reason to resize partitioning, or significant changes in my setup like another init system, another desktop, I prefer fresh install. But I have also performed various dist-upgrades since I started to have Debian on my workstation starting with Squeeze.

#134 Re: Installation » Installation doesn't work » 2025-07-22 21:44:50

So I mount ISO and then use general path instead of pointing on every directory of it?

No. Do NOT mount the iso. I assume you have the iso as a file in your Download directory. You cp the file, or dd it to the USB.

You do:

# cd /home/$USER/Download
# cp iso.file.spec /dev/sdx

BTW: you could also use the netinstall. The installers on the netinstall the CD and the DVD are exactly the same. The amount of SW coming with the media are different.

#135 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Calculator freezes » 2025-07-22 19:59:37

I am sorry, I thought I responded to such a topic earlier. Maybe I mistook that for the German Debian forum.

Anyway, here is a useful link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1059773

#136 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Calculator freezes » 2025-07-22 18:35:33

Please use the forum search, known problem.

#137 Re: Installation » Installation doesn't work » 2025-07-22 10:30:42

-- Enter UEFI -- Configure for USB partition as boot priority --

This is a residue from the old legacy bioses. The procedure to place the USB stick as first boot option is no more required on UEFI bioses. There you go and use the boot override. You PC should have a key to call up the boot menu (on my ASUS MBs its F8, on many others its F12 ... read the manual), and there you select the stick with the uefi prefix.

Give it a try, maybe this is the culprit.

#138 Re: Installation » Daedalus 5.0.0 iso » 2025-07-21 10:39:55

Look at the Download link on the top of this page. 5.0.0 has been replaced by 5.0.1.

#139 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Daedalus unusable with multiple monitors - Fixed in Excalibur » 2025-07-14 11:13:32

I don't want Xwayland and don't know whether Chimaera used it as I had no need to check - it just worked. Is there an alternative, other than Wayland which doesn't work at all with a second monitor plugged in?

Don't be mistaken that you use Wayland on Daedalus. Your system is setup with X11 as your inxi shows. This XWayland stuff is just a compatibility layer.

#140 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Transfering an OS from HD to SSD » 2025-06-30 06:48:24

Don't worry about wear on a modern SSD. They have such a large TWB that normal use on a workstation does not kill or even limit the lifetime. More than a decade ago when SSDs were new I used to put /var and /tmp onto a HDD. I have stopped that along time ago.

#141 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox ESR on systems that have not been online for a while » 2025-06-30 06:44:57

For the MSE a registry patch is available to fix the update issue. Had it myself in a Win7 VM.

I am not using the FF on Win7. An idea since the two machines seem not to work the same: has one of them a proxy or something like that defined in the internet connections?

#142 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » LVM -- useful or not? » 2025-06-30 06:41:10

Since many many years I am using LVM in combination with luks encryption. One PW for decryption for several LVM volumes.

Yes, its overhead, but you do not see or feel a major delay on modern computers.

#143 Re: Installation » No live devuan or refracta will boot on a new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 » 2025-06-18 12:45:36

... if I remember correctly, I've downloaded the .deb file as the driver, unpacked it, and placed the firmware folder on a USB flash drive.

I guess there is the mistake. AFAIK the installer looks for a deb file.

#144 Re: Installation » No live devuan or refracta will boot on a new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 » 2025-06-16 13:49:20

I don't know if it's possible to install from net install without internet?

Sure it is. But you should specify the network and its details as if it was fully working.
BTW: most of the network drivers are part of the kernel.

#145 Re: Installation » No live devuan or refracta will boot on a new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 » 2025-06-13 10:58:26

I would assume that such a brandnew computer has an UEFI only bios. No more CSM mode supported. So the legacy strategies to boot a stick do no more work.

#147 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Non-root-users cannot ping in devuan5-based lxc-container » 2025-05-31 16:11:19

The kernel 5.10.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 is definitely not from Daedalus. Daedalus uses linux-image-6.1.0* or 6.12 from backports.

#148 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Proposed Updates repository problem. » 2025-05-29 15:56:42

Further reading: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

Add stable proposed-updates (default: no)

proposed-updates are packages that will become part of the next stable point release but are not fully tested yet. It is usually safe to use them, but we recommend not using them on production systems. Note that there may be rare cases where a package from Debian's proposed-updates is needed, and in that case /merged should be used instead of /devuan below.

# /etc/apt/sources.list

deb     http://deb.devuan.org/devuan <release codename>-proposed-updates main

#150 Re: Installation » Minimalist/selective installation? » 2025-05-28 18:00:22

Fighting about minimalism is hairsplitting. The OP obviously wants to setup a system according to his wishes and considerations without all that stuff that is pulled in by the task*-Packages. I use this approach myself which is some sort of minimalism in the wider sense. Install a cli from the netinstall, and then install the DE I prefer currently which is Cinnamon, and the packages I need. I could help doing this, also with Mate. Not with other DE's, no experience.

Daedalus doesn't boot from Ventoy, so a bootable separate stick is required.

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