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P1nky

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Registered: 2020-12-01

Posts: 6  

[SOLVED] Daedalus on Dell Inspiron fails

Been happy with Devuan for years now, having run Debian previously, but there seems to be a catastrophic failure with Daedalus

Initially I tried a straight upgrade in place (and after reading the notes, ensured I included the non-free-firmware), and it seemed to install cleanly, but on rebooting, I was at the CLI (not a problem in itself, but I need X for work!) I assumed that there was some issue with the config, so cleared out any residual X configs, and tried starting X, but no joy. On checking the log files, it simply seg-faults, and the log suggests some issue with nouveau. As this is my main work laptop, I had to simply drop back to the chimaera installation. I have tried a fresh install of daedalus when I had a free hour, with the exact same failure, so it appears that there's an issue with the card/driver.

For reference, the primary card is an Intel GT2, and the secondary card is a GTX 1650. This has been flawless under chimaera (using Optimus).

Is it worth trying again, and installing the nvidia drivers, or am I likely to face further issues with that? I won't have the capacity to work without this system for a while, so anything that will take more than a few hours of outage is going to be tricky.

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus on Dell Inspiron fails

. . . ensured I included the nonfree-firmware) . . .

If that is a typo, it needs to be corrected. If that is what you actually tried to install, try non-free-firmware instead.

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P1nky

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Registered: 2020-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus on Dell Inspiron fails

. . . ensured I included the nonfree-firmware) . . .

If that is a typo, it needs to be corrected. If that is what you actually tried to install, try non-free-firmware instead.

That was a typo in my post, not the config.
Just to update, blacklisting the nouveau driver has fixed it (once I got the other little "gotchas" resolved). This was on a fresh installation, so I'm still finalising everything, rather than restoring the chimaera installation and upgeading that.

I think I may avoid Dell kit in future!

soren

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Registered: 2023-04-30

Posts: 142  

Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus on Dell Inspiron fails

I think I may avoid Dell kit in future!

Newer Dell inspiron laptops are ok in my experience with daedalus. Maybe stay clear of anything intel and nvidia .
Ive had a good experience so far with amd ryzen and radeon graphics.

jemadux

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From: Greece

Registered: 2023-03-09

Posts: 31  

Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus on Dell Inspiron fails

I have an dell laptop [1] . it working fine for me  ... probably because i dont have nvidia card

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-Mo … 3728H?th=1

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