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For sure remove the AMD Catalyst driver completely. Its outdated and useless.
Maybe you simply do a re-installation. If recklesswing is right support by the kernel is enough. Nevertheless, on first boot watch out for messages about missing firmware. If such messages appear, add non-free-firmware to your sources.list, do an apt update and install firmware-amd-graphics. I have got 5800 cards that require firmware.
PS: you say you got that card working on Debian Bookworm? Then there is no reason why it shouldn't work in Daedalus. Uses the same packages as Bookworm.
How is that card listed by lspci?
So far I haven't installed anything to support bluetooth on my travelling laptop. Wifi is working, that was enough.
As preparation for an aniversary party I want to enable bluetooth to be able to connect to a Sonos system to play some music. The laptop is running Daedalus with pipewire, that works fine on the internal speakers and headset if that is connected.
When I now look at what is happening when I try to install blueman, pipewire-alsa is removed and pulseaudio is installed instead. I don't want that.
Do I have alternatives?
My assumption is that the Atheros chipset is supporting as well wifi as bluetooth. Correct? Wifi is installed, drivers and firmware are present. Are any additions required for bluetooth?
lspci
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04:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)7Thanks, rolfie
Is this your first Daedalus installation? The fsmithreds suggestion is very relevant.
AMD cards are normally fully supported by kernel and firmware-amd-graphics.
Although I'd still like to ask here, since there's an ongoing conversation about it, is there an easy way to tell when an ISO will work on Ventoy or does the project need to specifically mention this? The reason I ask is because in the past I had similar problems with other ISO files, but I wasn't sure if they were caused because of this or just a bad USB stick.
No, there isn't an easy way. As far as I am concerned, Daedalus is the only release that fails on Ventoy. ASCII, Beowulf and Chimaera work fine. Same for all Debians I have tried, Arch Linux, AcroLinux, Mint > 20.1, LMDE 5 and 6, ...
On the other hand, Ventoy seems to be sort of dead, according to their web page there will be no further version past 0.99.
Devuan Daedalus is not compatible to Ventoy. Does not work.
Use dd or cp to write the image to an empty stick, that works fine.
If I am not mistaken you got 16G of RAM. Thats more than enough for a normal Devuan office use. You could easily allow 4G for a VM and not notice any performance limitations. Prerequisite: limit the number of open tabs in your browser.
A swap larger than the RAM is only required if you want to use hibernation.
regarding whether i can use my ssd as a buffer memory, i will need some more info on how to investigate and implementation
Forget about this idea. This was promoted for a while by Intel, they also had a product for that, and Seagate also had some hard disks with SSD cache on board in the portfolio, but never was really adopted in a bigger scale. This is sort of dead by now.
Give that a try:
groucho ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/ifup eth0 /sbin/ifdown eth0If Debian does Devuan should also do. Devuan is Debian - systemd packages + replacements. Kernel and drivers are the same.
I just gave examples, no guaranteed solutions. The OP does not use Testing or Unstable anyhow. Its his job to find out whats the best for him.
You obviously did not read nor understand the page I linked.
1.) Do not use the Devuan root server http://pkgmaster.devuan.org in your sources.list. This puts heavy load onto the master server.
2.) Use http://deb.devuan.org/merged and if that gives you not resolved or something similar, you might try:
3.) Use http://de.deb.devuan.org/merged as example for Germany. de. is the country prefix. If you are living in one of the worlds bigger countries, this migth be an option. Warning: I did use the de. option for a while some years ago, then it became a problem. I am back to 2.) with minimum hasle.
3.) Brr, the mirror_list.txt has been converted from an easy human readable format to the new Debian standard called DEB882 which is better readable by machines. Last but not least you might use this example: http://ftp.fau.de/merged using the mirror ftp.fau.de from Germany. Adapt to your needs.
As an apt user I use the following two commands:
# apt update
# apt full-upgrade -Vand I am getting the full picture every time.
There is a link to devuan.org on the top of the forum page. There you find a lot of useful information.
Try this page first: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages
I had some fun with hibernation recently. Finally it turned out that an older NEC based USB card in combination with some Toshiba memory stick caused my problems. Here is a link: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6631
Carefully check the messages around going to sleep and when trying to wakeup whats going on there.
The screenshots you are showing here try to access beowulf which is Devuan 3. Daedalus is Devuan 5. You need to upgrade to Chimaera = Devuan 4 first and then to Devuan 5.
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace beowulf with chimaera as a first step. I hope you are familiar with nano?
BTW: looks like there is an additional problem with resolving deb.devuan.org. There are several posts in the forum about this issue and hints how to resolve.
Looks like you are trying Ventoy, that tool does not work with Daedalus. And I would assume its the same with Excalibur.
Nothing should be commented out in a Daedalus sources.list, it isn't neccessary. It should look like this:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmwareI am using the recommended default. It works to about 99.9% for me. If you run into problems, replace deb.devuan.org with a suitable mirror.
Later I was on the web and tried to use the install scripts from firefox, brave and librewolf. All of them wouldn't install because it said it needed use stable instead of daedalus.
I am pretty sure dedicated install scripts for Debian will fail when they read a Daedalus sources.list. None of them will consider Devuan and like, they are written for stock Debian. No Devuan problem in itself. You have to do the installation manually. Read the instructions on the web pages and adapt the descriptions to Devuan Daedalus.
I run the Firefox ESR from the Mozilla website directly. Nowadays there is a deb package also.
I am sorry, you did not even give some basics about what your system looks alike. Which Devuan release? Which desktop and display manager? X11 or Wayland?
What about posting the output of inxi -Fzr?
The problem is that Windows sets the bios time to local time, while Linux system use UTC by default.
Suggestion (as recommended in the web and like I do it):
Set the bios time to UTC.
Search the web for an instruction how to set Win10 to UTC time too, its a registry hack (I did that for Win7 log time ago).
1.) inxi -Fz will show something like this about swap:
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 183.11 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/dm-2I am using a logical volume in a LVM as swap partition. The fstab entry looks like this:
# Swap
/dev/mapper/vg--exc--sys-2_swap none swap sw 0 0Replace the /dev/mapper-stuff against your partition, best use the UUID.
2.) Look at asunder to rip CDs, this is my preference. You may need some additional programs like lame or flac. Synapatic is your friend when searching for packages.
There are other rippers around like ripperx, again use Synaptics and make your choice.
Ah ok, you have used the live version to install. That has some deficincies when trying to setup an encrypted PC. One of them being that the swap partition isn't encrypted which is a big loophole. I am not aware about any method of easily encrypting the swap partition and adding that to an encrypted root. Adding it unencrypted is possible. Format partition2 as swap and include it into the fstab.
The normal installer, no matter if you use netinstall, the CD or the DVD version, they support an encrypted luks container as physical volume for a LVM holding logical volumes for / and swap. Thats what I use and the live version does not support. Just /boot isn't encrypted. When the PC is off swap is locked inside the encrypted container and can't be read.
Your choice if you can live with what you got. I would recommend an installation from any regular medium.
To the root access problems: the sudo method works, you have to use sudo before any single admin command you want to issue. User password is required. This is the so called "Ubuntu" method.
When you have assigned a password to root, you can become superuser with the su command in a user terminal. You will be asked for the root password and then can issue an endless number of admin commands as you like without being asked for passwords again. There is a problem though: from Debian 10 Buster/Devuan 3 Beowulf onward Debian did move the su command code to a different package. An underlying change is related to the path: simply using su now uses the user path setting, and not the admin path anymore, resulting in many "command not found" messages. Now only with su - the path is set correctly. Workaround: edit /etc/login.defs and add a line with ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes where the paths are defined.
@blackhole: well done, nicely summarized.
Is there a list of alternative update/software package repo mirror sites somewhere?
Look at the top of the forum page, there is a link to Devuan.org, and read the Packages page.
@Tweedlewise: your post #7 is confusing me. I carefully try to give some answers, maybe they help.
Obviously you have managed to install Devuan, congratulations. Did you use netinstall, CD, DVD or the live version? Makes slight differences here and there in what you need to do and what you get.
How do I install additional programs?
Third question answered first: you found the graphical tool Synaptics yourself. On the console the most commonly use tools are apt, apt-get or aptitude. Look into the man pages. What also is a good source of information is the Ubuntu wiki. Most of what is written there is also valid for Debian/Devuan. I assumne that you are not afraid of working with the terminal as former sysop.
During install I gave it separate passwords for the disk, partitions, root, and user/self.
The installer asks you very early in the installtion if you want a root password. If you deny you have to use the Ubuntu way with sudo for administrative tasks. I guess you have said yes, so root has a password and you must also have generated at least one user and password.
What are passwords for disks and partitions? I think the terminology is wrong. Maybe you have encrypted your system, then you need a key (and not a password) to decrypt the drive during booting. If you haven't encrypted your system: What are passwords for disks and partitions?
It would help a lot if you could try to use the correct terms and sort of same language. Avoids guessing for the supporter, and false advice for the poster who is seeking advice.
I made 3 partitions root, swap, home
I set the 2nd as linux-swap, but is not being used as swap, just sits there, showing up as a partition that I cannot access,
1. How can I get the system to recognize it as swap when booting?
How did you create these 3 partitions? And how did you use the partitioner inside the installer? Did you use manual or guided partitioning?
Guided partitioning sets up the disks sort of automatically, no matter if encrypted or not. Swap is automatically included. You have no choice and cannot make a mistake (but using guided which is fine for the unexperienced user, but for me that sets partition size too small often for nowadays disk sizes). I only use manual partitioning because I want to have control. But to successfully practise manual partitioning requires knowledge and experience, especially when we are talking about encryption.
To be able to answer the question how to add swap, you owe us some information about which kind of boundary condition we are facing in your case. How does the installation look alike currently?
A good start would be the output from
~$ inxi -Fzrand
# fdisk -l
Note: the first command is run on the user account, the second one as root, indicated by the prompt before the command.
PS: I do set up my system with the traditional so called full disk encryption with luks, having an unencrypted /boot, and I am decrypting the computer with hidden keys sitting on USB sticks. When the stick is removed the PC does not boot.
lspci and lsusb to find out what adapter is used? And from there install the relevant firmware and drivers?