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#176 Re: Installation » [Solved] Swap partition: swapon error and priority » 2020-05-10 09:49:08

Hi

Try with

UUID=1d1727d2-e296-48fb-a6cc-1207cfd6b7be  none  swap  sw  0  0

instead of

UUID=1d1727d2-e296-48fb-a6cc-1207cfd6b7be  none  swap  defaults  0  0

Have a nice day

#177 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-07 12:59:25

Hi

You can also install and enable volumeicon-alsa to control the sound (via alsamixer). Then you don't need pulseaudio at all ;-))

Have a nice day

Lars H

#178 Re: Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-07 07:39:53

Hi all

Thank you for the answers. Let me summarize my experience:

1) Locale not configured after installation if locale is not english. It means that default setup (folders etc) will require some work.
2) In my second (and for the time being final) install, wicd required manual setup for wireless. Might be a big issue for non experienced users
3) Fsck programs supporting different filesystems missing
10) Volume cannot be adjusted in XFCE in default setup (nice to have, and maybe different optimal solutions for different desktops). And let just oce again repeat I like that the pulseaudio-deamon is not running by default

Other than that I like what i have been seeing the past two days.

Maybe a little wiki where the problems and best solutions could be mentioned.

Hope you are all well, and have a nice day
Lars H

#179 Re: Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-07 07:26:49

Hi

I am sure it is good for qt based enviroments. XFCE is gtk based and so is Volume Icon-alsa. There are many ways to do it. Commandline is obvious as well (alsamixer).

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#180 Re: Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-06 18:17:17

Hi

Thank you for your kind answer. What i suggested used as default (and are now using myself) is what you also did as your second proposal: volumeicon-alsa

It supports alsa directly, without addditional dependencies and have the same functionality as pauvcontrol

Have a nice day
Lars H

#181 Re: Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-06 14:52:14

Hi

Thank you for your answer.

But the (for me) good thing is that pulseaudio is not running by default. And I personally prefer it to be that way ;-)

I am getting the latency with default kernel and a onboard realtek chip. So nothing fancy there :-)) The rt-kernel is to my knowledge optimized mostly for network latency. And that is a completely different matter ;-)>>

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#182 Re: Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-06 14:09:09

Hi

Than you for your reply. What I would like to see is an experience at least on par with Debian itself. I am a bit surprised over the difference in speed in favour of devuan ;-)))

About volumecontrols in XFCE. Fortunately devuan has not activated pulseaudio by default (that is one of the reasons for the good latency). But this means that the pauvcontrol is useless, unless you start pulseaudio. The sound quality without pulseaudio is better, and the system a bit more responsive. That's the reason for my suggestion of volumeicon as it works directly with alsa. I can see on the front page that one of the question is confusion about exactly this question.

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#183 Re: Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-06 11:25:17

Hi

I have now worked a bit more on devuan Beowulf XFCE. As I am a musician I wanted to try out the realtime audio capabilities of this. And with my onboard soundcard I am getting 8 ms. That's quite a bit of an improvement from Debian Buster (11,5 ms). So this distro is well made for working with sound.

One thing that became a problem was wicd not finding my wireless networks. I found that the good "old" way with editing /etc/network/interfaces worked. But slowing down boot. I then looked into /etc/wicd. After adding the interfaces to /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf everythings works perfectly.

The network thing (especially if the user is on wifi) will be an unsolvable  big problem to new users.

But all in all I am very happy with the install for now ,-))

Thank you to everybody making this possible

Have a nice day
Lars H

#184 Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-05 16:27:01

larsH
Replies: 16

Hi all

Thank you for this almost perfect distribution. I installed Beowulf because my machine needs secure boot. It was supported ;-))))). Please mention that in the release news.

The locale was asked tvise during install. And was wrong afterwards (Im Danish). Deleted the user, changed locale with "dpkg-reconfigure locales", rebooted and recreated the user. Then everything was fine. This is the most annoying part of a new install, if you are not experienced enough.

Also missing languagepacks after fresh install.

Found btrfs-progs (and xfsprogs) missing. Should have been there in case of emergency and for information.

All the above is working very well when installing debian (with ncurses frontend)

Would be nice if volumicon was installed by default (on XFCE). Then the desktop would be complete

But otherwise i am impressed with what I am seeing. The system is speedy, seems stable. And everything else works atm. Looking forward to  work on it for the coming days

Thank you and have a nice day

Lars H

Lars H

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