If you boot from the refind rescue media by following the instructions here:
https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall you can probably rescue your system.
This has worked for me and others. I don't know why Devuan gets into this
state!
--Tim
On Thursday, January 27, 2022, 05:57:00 AM
Pretty good talk. Reminds me of the other time I heard Brian (in person) at
Purdue in 1977-78 or so. He opened with two quotes, "The operating system
comes between the user and the hardware" which got a laugh because although it
was from a standard operating system textbook, he didn't mean
Yes, the AMD cards are no panacea. I bought an AMD FirePro W4100 for $260 to
drive multiple 4K monitors at the end of 2019, which was not usable as it
turned out. This was not a new card, so should have been supported. After a
ton of great help from the mailing list (tried many, many
at 10:35 AM Tim Wallace via Dng
wrote:
>
> I've had intermittent trouble with Devuan/EFI from day 1, when I got a new
> MB/SSD and found out I had to use EFI for my hardware to work. Most recent
> was a bad grub update (you may recall that was a topic of conversation here a
>
I've had intermittent trouble with Devuan/EFI from day 1, when I got a new
MB/SSD and found out I had to use EFI for my hardware to work. Most recent was
a bad grub update (you may recall that was a topic of conversation here a few
months back. Latest (yesterday) was my MB battery dying, and
My system76 laptop got the grub updates this morning, and I installed
(suspiciously) after running a meeting first. Yup, the system did not boot,
giving a grub prompt. I booted with a refind USB stick, and then rolled back
the grub-efi stuff to the previous version using synaptic. That
The link mentions that gnome apps are "supposed to be used under gnome" and
after I upgraded to beowulf, I found that evince was unusable (I use xfce).
The rendering engine was working, but the defaults were unusable and it failed
to save new defaults. The error messages referred to lacking
time to do all the configuration in two weeks so I can send it
back.
--Tim
On Thursday, February 6, 2020, 6:20:08 PM EST, Tim Wallace via Dng
wrote:
Hi Roland--
I do think that you know the most about the issues with this card...but
remember, when I run mpv to display 4K video
I bought a 2017 System76 laptop prior to Pop! creation, requesting Debian. I
had trouble connecting to wifi while on vacation a couple of years later, so
went to Devuan, and it works great.
My wife bought one from them last year (Gazelle) with Pop! and asks me why it
drops the wifi signal
... Thank you for your
interest and kind answers! Sincerely Roland
Am 5 Feb 2020 20:37:27 +0100 (CET) Von Tim Wallace via Dng :
Hi Andreas-- I do believe that it can be hardware-related, but only to the
video card. I've been running this computer, the same 4K monitor, and the same
displayport cable
at 04:44:07PM +, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote:
> Hi Andreas--
> lspci shows this:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro
> Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde GL [FirePro W4100]which shows the
> Cape Verde but not the Southern Island. I think all Cape Verde are
> that, th
Hi Andreas--
lspci shows this:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde GL [FirePro W4100]which shows the Cape Verde but not
the Southern Island. I think all Cape Verde are that, though.
The old radeon kernel module paired with the Xorg radeon driver
My latest adventures in AMD drivers:
I tried the kernel 5.4.0 from the backports under beowulf. I forced the
backports version upgrade for firmware-amd-graphics; there was no backports
version of xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. It worked, and seemed to perhaps flash a
little less than
problem, but I can
report that I've successfully built and run run 5.4 on ascii (if that
was a question).
Tim Wallace via Dng wrote:
> I have played with the CMDLINE stuff, and blacklisting, to no avail. I
> wonder if compiling a 5.4 kernel would solve my graphics problem, and work
> wit
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[3]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU#Feature_support
[4]:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_.28SI.29_and_Sea_Islands_.28CIK.29_support
[5]:
https://www.amd.com/en/support/professional-graphics/firepro/firepro-wx100-series/firepro-w4100
I have been happily running ascii but upgraded from my Intel built-in graphics
to an AMD FirePro W4100 because I do a lot of 4K video editing, but no
game-playing, and thought this 50W card would save energy and work well with
4K. There is a nearly identical Nvidia card, but I decided to
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