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You should simply uninstall the old kernel with apt purge linux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64. But be carefull !!! I do not have an 4.19.0.11. I only have 4.19.0.9. So be sure. If you remove the running kernel the system will crash and you cannot reboot (this is called linux for a reason ;-).

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Lars H

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Yes I did choose "expert" install first time. After the error I did a standard install, and everything there did work as expected. I am now restoring my /home. I do not have the downloaded iso file  any more. Downloaded just after a full install. I will try once more (without installing) to see if it is an on and off error.

I am sorry if I have made unnecessary "noise" here around the release. I report back soon if the problem reoccurs.

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Lars H

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Have just reinstalled using the new beowulf_3.0.0_netinstall-amd64.iso

The standard install went well including xfce. The only thing I found missing was btrfsprogs (all my filesystems are btrfs) xfsprogs.

But I did first try the Expert Install. It went well until partitioning. I could only choose between fat, fat32 and ext2 (and as remembrance it no choice of automatic partitioning). So a lot of modules missing there. I then rebooted and did make the standard install.

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Lars H

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What bluetooth manager are you using. Blueman ?? What does "rfkill list" say.

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No sound. That is a common problem. Has nothing to do with bluetooth. Look in the proposed release notes or for instance here https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3541. In this case it might be needed to go the pulseaudio route.

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Lars H

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Please provide some more information. Especially what kind of device you are having problems with. We cant see it here. And therefore have no clue about what your problem is and then we cant help you.
And a bit of patience would be nice. No one here is paid just volunteering on a free basis.

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Lars H

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When I have told about steam, I would also tell about Lutris https://lutris.net/ : I have not tried it out yet. But it is made for making games on Linux much more accesible and claims you to be able to play a lot of games from both open and closed platforms.

Tell about your experieces. Good or bad

Lars H

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Beowulf is not released yet.

You do not need to enable pulseaudio. The problem without for most users are to chose soundcard, and adjust volume. But alsamixer on terminal does this just fine. There are as well a couple of apps for the dektop (volumeicon-alsa and others) you can use as well. Pulseaudio in itself is actually not using any hardware on your system just software. So there is a overhead using pulseaudio. Alsa uses the supported hardware directly.

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Lars H

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You can choose soundcard in alsamixer by pressing F6. To adjust volume make sure "Master" is selected (or headphone if you are using that) and then arrow up(down to adjust.

It looks like jack soundserver and pulseaudio is running. If jack is running (and as a musician I am using it myself when needed) please stop the daemon (maybe through qJackĆtl or commandline). Jack prevents other servers (as alsa) to use the soundcard. Just use jack for recording and mixing sound at a (semi) professional level. It does not work by default on games and in browsers. Pulseaudio also makes the setup more complicated than it need to be. Edit /home/user/.config/pulse/client.conf and set autospawn = no. Then it will not restart by iself when you stop it. Log out and in. If needed stop pulseausio by passing pulseaudio -k in a terminal. Using just alsa is the simplest way to get audio as an ordinary user on Devuan.

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Lars H

Comment to fsmithred

I never told you that the 8 ms latency was with jack running as soundserver and ardour as mixer/recording device. Otherwise I think that such low latency would be impossible. But even more so with pulseaudio where the hardware is not used at all (as far as I know)

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If you have only one swap partition (or swapfile) the priority has no importance. The priority is only used to choose the priority if you have more swap partitions (or swapfiles).

Make sure the UUID is right or use "/dev/sda7 none swap sw 0 0" in your fstab. If you want to change the priority of swap it is the swappiness of the system you should mess with (in /etc/sysctl.conf). But wait until the system is otherwise behaving well.

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Lars H

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As a musician I try to avoid pulseaudio for producing sound (soundtracks, cd etc.)

Actually most distros that is tweaked for producing sound (AV-Linux, Gentoo-Studio) are removing pulseaudio altogether or temporarily disabling it because pulseaudio makes the latencies for sound a lot bigger. This happens because Pulseaudio moves everything to software instead of using the soundcard/chip hardware. That happened because some card chips did (I dont know if this is still the case) might have problems if there are multiple chips/cards. So actually PulseAudio is making the sound the same or a bit worse in most cases.

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