HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

rations · Yesterday 09:28:28

Does your nvidia card support driver versions above 570.xxx.xxx? If so this is what I do.

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/c … -1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers

sudo reboot

djinnhammer · Yesterday 18:34:42

I've just followed this on my fresh Excalibur install, and fastfetch doesn't seem to be showing anything different to "X11" despite etrminal during installation confirming X11 getting uninstalled and replaced by Xlibre.
I used : ~$ env | grep -E -i 'x11|xorg|wayland'
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
And that is what it shows me, am I missing something?

rolfie · Yesterday 19:21:57

What do you expect from a X11 replacement?

From my Excalibur on XLibre VM:

~$ env | grep -E -i 'x11|xorg|wayland'
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11

Last edited by rolfie (Yesterday 19:22:12)

MageSlayer · Yesterday 19:52:40

@rations

Does your nvidia card support driver versions above 570.xxx.xxx? If so this is what I do.
sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/c … -1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers
sudo reboot

Sorry. But are you replying to my question in
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63534#p63534 or you commenting something else?

I am a bit confused about relationship between cuda drivers and my issues with empty/black windows under XLibre.

rations · Today 01:02:43

You asked for recommendations. I'm just sharing what I use with xlibre on excalibur and have not had any issues.

kapqa · Today 04:13:19

"mage slayer"
i have used this wiki to install nvidia driver for gt 710 on a devuan 5 daedalus OS, it could function also for devuan 6?

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

0 apt install linux-headers-generic

1, using nvidia-detect

(it would say in my case "nvidia-tesla-470-something")

then i went to

11. debian bullseye (470.xx)

instead of

# apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

adapted to

# apt install nvidia-tesla-470-driver firmware-misc-nonfree --no-install-recommends

after reboot, there is some error message during booting process related to nvidia, however it seems the graphics driver is active and somewhwat functioning; (tested with geekbench --compute) there is no opencl, installed, however.

the "--no-install-recommends" portion was needed, since otherwise there would be error with devuan package "nvidia-persistenced" that has been discussed on the forum.

hopefully on devuan 6 this can all be easier, and no-install-recommends is no longer needed.

MageSlayer · Today 06:01:15

Ok. Thanks for details! I'll make my tests.

manyroads · Today 13:06:40

FWIW here's my tangential observation(s). I am using XLibre but on Debian Test. I run:

OS ▸ Debian GNU/Linux Trixie x86_64
BD++++D+D+::::::+D Kernel ▸ Linux 6.19.14-2-liquorix-amd64
D+-::::=D+::::::::+BBDD+ Uptime ▸ 1 hour, 52 mins
D=::::::=B=-::::::=BB++=+D Processes ▸ 327
D-:::::=BDD=-::-=+B=-::::=D Packages ▸ 2217
B+--==+++===++BDD+:::::::-D Window Manager ▸ dwm (XLibre)
DB+++==:::::::::-+D-:::::::=D Shell ▸ zsh 5.9
D=:::::::::::::::::++:::::-+D Terminal ▸ xterm 409
D+::::::::::::::::::+D++==+BD+ Terminal Font ▸ JetBrains Mono Nerd Font:style=Regular (11pt)
D=:::::::::::::::::+BD+=--:-+D Terminal Theme ▸ ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
B+=-::::::::::::::B+-::::::=D Brightness ▸ 100% [Built-in]
DBB++-::::::::::-D:::::::-+D CPU ▸ 12 x AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS
DB+:::::::::+D=-:::-=+D GPU ▸ GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile
D=:::::::-D +BDBBD+ GPU ▸ AMD Radeon 740M Graphics
B+--::-=D RAM ▸ 2.39 GiB / 14.88 GiB (16%)
+BDBDD+ Swap ▸ 0 B / 7.45 GiB (0%)
Disk ▸ 1.09 TiB / 1.78 TiB (61%) - ext4

To answer a few questions I see in this thread. For me XLibre performance is about 6-7% better than with non-XLibre. Like many here, I am not a fan of Wayland- I ran it for a year to give it a test... and if I only ran a single wm without conky, I could make it work. But I run with dwm,i3wm,openbox and choose not survive with a crippled conky (maybe its fixed these days; I don't know). Should I use systemd... just to answer that item, I need my stupid VRAM (nVidia) to work because I run a local AI on my machine- for lots of reasons that would probably get this note thrown off here. Suffice it to say, nVidia is necessary for resilience and grandsons- not optional and nVidia is also blindingly painful, but I have it working. Yay.

In general, the politics alluded to here re: XLibre are a pretty obvious issue for some folks. I have not personally encountered any problems. So, it's alright so far. For any who would like to see my stupid-simple XLibre install it's freely available here:

https://codeberg.org/eirenicon/dwm-XLibre

btw. it is worth every penny you paid for it, as well.

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