You can use dmesg -w to "watch" new messages being printed to the kernel ring buffer and see if anything is added when you insert an SD card.

The backported kernel is drawn from testing and so may be subject to the mandatory transition delay from sid, which may result in vulnerabilities being left exposed for longer than would be the case with the stable kernel.

If you do need the backported kernel then be sure to leave the repository enabled so that it's updated. I've had too many arguments about this over at the MX forums but I'm definitely right

And note that "unstable" in De{vu,bi}an refers to the package version flux rather than reliability.

EDIT: yay for the rtl8821ce support though, thanks for the update OP.

EDIT2: and watch out for regressions with the backported kernel, the developers are too busy adding new vulnerabilites features to worry about keeping old stuff working.

Devuan already uses the startpar package to parallelise sysvinit and I think it may also work with OpenRC.

Take note of the warning given by the OpenRC developers:

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/m … rc.conf#L7

That's also a development branch.

You can mix testing and unstable if you know what you're doing: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … le_literal

And use the transitions page to get an idea of upcoming problems: https://release.debian.org/transitions/

That's a development branch, it breaks. If the stable release works for you then use that.

Yup, looks like Xfce uses a custom logout command: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce#Suspend

You could create a wrapper script at /usr/local/bin/xfce-session-logout, something like:

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
   --suspend) /usr/sbin/pm-suspend;;
   --hibernate) /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate;;
   *) /usr/bin/xfce-session-logout "$1";;
esac

The posted script seems to already support sysvinit:

Rather than restarting the service just bring the interface down then back up again:

# ifdown eth0
# ifup eth0

^ If that works then create an exectuable script at /etc/pm/sleep.d/00fix with this content:

#!/bin/sh
#
# 00fix: bring network back after resuming from suspend

case "$1" in
   thaw|resume)
      /usr/sbin/ifdown eth0
      /usr/sbin/ifup eth0
      ;;
esac

EDIT: have you tried the r8168 driver? That might fix your problem.

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/beowul … .00-1.html

^ I presume you used apt source iwd to grab the original Debian source package and modified that?

Add the iwd sysvinit script to the main source directory and run this to create a patch to add it:

dpkg-source --commit

Then create a file at debian/iwd.install with this content:

iwd /etc/init.d/

Add this to the file at debian/iwd.postinst (just before the #DEBHELPER# line):

# enable sysvinit script
update-rc.d iwd defaults

And also create a file at debian/iwd.postrm with this content:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

# remove sysvinit script
update-rc.d iwd remove

#DEBHELPER#

Note that wicd uses wpa_supplicant to associate with wireless access points.

iwd ftw!

How about autoselecting the non-HDMI output for laptops? ALSA doesn't do that.

(Sorry for the OT, OP.)

Perhaps the next time I boot into Debian but I'm enjoying my new OpenBSD box too much atm.

Here's the packaging guide I use: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/

For xlupe it should be fairly simple, just download the source tarball and rename it to xlupe_1.1.orig.tar.gz then unpack it and

# apt install build-essential devscripts
export DEBEMAIL="your.email@email.com"
export DEBFULLNAME="Vernon Surname_goes_here"
cd xlupe-1.1
debmake

The debmake command will create a basic debian directory with template files that can be filled in.

To apply your suggested changes just run the sed command in the source directory then use this command to generate a patch:

dpkg-source --commit

debian/control is for listing the (build-)dependencies, package name, source URL and a few other details.

debian/rules is for building the package, debhelper(7) will manage most build systems automagically but to create the Makefile for Xlupe you may have to add this line:

override_dh_auto_configure:
        xmkhf

If the Makefile doesn't have an install target then use debian/xlupe.install, like this:

xlupe /usr/bin/
debian/xlupe.desktop /usr/share/applications/

^ The second line installs the .desktop file, which should be placed in the debian directory.

Once all of the templates are filled in then build the package with

debuild -us -uc

HTH

EDIT: install the lintian package to run checks on the .deb once it's built, it will give advice on any problems.

See also https://lintian.debian.org/tags.html