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robert-e

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Registered: 2016-12-04

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[SOLVED] X11 problem with Daedalus

I have a problem with Daedalus.
Thinkpad L512 I3 chipset with 4 gig ram (max)

Under Chimaera:

bob@thinkpad:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM55 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
02:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller (rev 20)
02:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller (rev 20)
02:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller (rev 20)
02:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller (rev 20)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor Reserved (rev 02)

bob@thinkpad:~$ uname -r
5.10.0-29-amd64

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Then, yesterday (May 20th) with expert install of Daedalus, selecting install all drivers, with mate desktop, audacity and vlc crashes the xserver.

Then placed the following in:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/09-force-intel-driver.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device1"
    Driver "intel"
EndSection

No joy, it also screwed up the desktop menuing.  I think it might have to do with kernel drivers, and/or mesa?

What are my options? Suggestions? I have a clonezilla backup of Chimaera install that works perfectly.

Thanks,
Bob

pl

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 problem with Daedalus

A bit of output log wouldn't do us any harm :)

Last edited by pl (2024-05-24 08:14:00)

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Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 174  

Re: [SOLVED] X11 problem with Daedalus

Have you considered a standard Daedalus install (desktop-iso 5.01) and not choosing Expert, but standard install? You still can choose what DE and which software-packages to install.
Might be an easier approach to get your Lenovo running Devuan Daedalus. And don't forget to read the docs before posting.
Hope it helps.

delgado

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 212  

Re: [SOLVED] X11 problem with Daedalus

I have a clonezilla backup of Chimaera install that works perfectly.

In this situation, I would have upgrade chimaera to daedalus.

EDIT:
The one line above sounds stupid, sorry. I'll try again in detail:

There is no need to re-install. Doing a dist-upgrade with apt works fine. Benefits are: Manual configurations are preserved, less time consuming, everything is basically as it was. The process is not too complicated and in the worst case you can recover chimaera.
(edit /etc/apt/sources.list accordingly; apt update; apt upgrade; apt dist-upgrade and it's done)

Last edited by delgado (2024-05-25 08:07:14)

robert-e

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Registered: 2016-12-04

Posts: 16  

Re: [SOLVED] X11 problem with Daedalus

@Andre4freedom...I took your advice (sort of).  I used a spare ssd, did another net install; formatting all partitions rather than not formatting /home, choosing mate desktop.
The only software installed after, via synaptic was audacity and vlc, with recommends.  I then copied a video and a audio file over from a flash drive.
Other than a few flickers on a mouse hover on the audacity menu item, all seems ok; vlc played the video ok.  Not sure what is different; I did make sure
to rename the dot files on the first install, but perhaps I missed one, and that could have been the problem.  Not sure how I can check that on the first
install.
That said, I will mark this as solved and thanks to all who chimed in.

Best regards,
Bob

robert-e

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Registered: 2016-12-04

Posts: 16  

Re: [SOLVED] X11 problem with Daedalus

Further re the above...Upon more testing, I found firefox now crashing the x11 server.  So I give up.
My final solution to this problem is: don't upgrade to Daedalus, but stay on Chimaera.  Perhaps the laptop will expire before Chimaera
goes out of support.  Sigh.

Regards,
Bob