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#151 Re: Installation » How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)? » 2025-08-26 18:14:00
Installed a Daedalus VM, encrypted with LVM, efi based, Lightdm and Cinnamon with German locale and Keyboard. Installation works, Lightdm is set to US keyboard, Cinnamon too. Adding a German keyboard works until reboot, then the system is back to US. Is that worth an issue? I think yes?
Edith: the screensaver login allows to switch the keyboard to German, the login doesn't.
#152 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » kernel (error): disabling IRQ:7 » 2025-08-24 20:04:00
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … rrupt-irq7
"Classically, the default usage of IRQ 7 is for the (essentially obsolete) parallel port (also known as IEEE 1284 or LPT)..."
Use the search machine of your least mistrust to find some more info.
#153 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-24 09:57:19
Just pulled out my travelling laptop again.
apt update works fine w/o backports. Re-enabling the standard "deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged" backports throws a "Release file not found" error. Starngely enough it works with "deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged".
#154 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan 6 excalibur, OpenRC, networking, /etc/hosts ingnored » 2025-08-13 16:37:46
I have seen something in a German portal that you can configure NM to leave the resolv.conf alone.
#155 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Can't even install yt-dlp in Devuan 6, many things are broken » 2025-08-13 16:35:47
You simply may need a new version for Debian 13 Trixie.
#156 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan 6 excalibur, OpenRC, networking, /etc/hosts ingnored » 2025-08-13 08:38:01
NetworkManager shouldn't affect /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts or any of these files, except, unfortunately, the /etc/resolv.conf file.
Please read again, you see the discrepancy?
NetworkManager WILL affect the /etc/resolv.conf and take it out of the loop. Thats why I omit using NetworkManager on my workstation. On my small home network I am using static addressing.
#157 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.
#158 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Nvidia-driver not found apt » 2025-08-02 08:43:51
non-free is missing.
#159 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?
#160 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.
#161 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Canon LBP6020 » 2025-07-27 09:14:18
Kyocera also is a possible choice.
#162 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.
#163 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-25 07:20:03
Have a look at https://www.devuan.org/. Chimaera is oldstable, but not yet archived.
#164 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.
#165 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/sdxBTW: 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.
#166 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
#167 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Calculator freezes » 2025-07-22 18:35:33
Please use the forum search, known problem.
#168 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.
#169 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.
#170 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.
#171 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.
#172 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?
#173 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.
#174 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.
#175 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.
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