Hi Steve,
Steve Litt wrote:
> https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/
>
> LOL, I removed every bit of KDE, its executables and libraries, in
> 2012. Mostly for the same reasons I refuse to host systemd. Now comes
> the possibility of ads on KDE
Hi,
Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm running Chimera. I downloaded current version of skypeforlinux
> and installed it. The annoying prompts for password to keyring
> I skip.
>
> The audo and video test ok. But when I try to make a free test call,
> Skype crashes.
I have similar issues.
I have
Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Bellière wrote:
> XFCE is upgrading to GTK3. The inconsistent look of the windows you've
> seen
> might be due to old style windows being used alongside newer style.
Yes, unfortunate upgrade, it was caused by that
>
> XFCE isn't a big monolithical application, instead a
Hi Ralph!
Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
> What you see there is one of the effects of "Client Side Rendering"
> which is this new fad that wants to return to the cowboy times of
> mid-80's where every GUI program implements its own looks and style.
> It's generally called "progress".
that was
Hello,
Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote:
Hi,
sorry, message was sent without content.. I wonder, something went wrong
with Thunderbird which sent out an email when I put the laptop to sleep.
What I wanted to write is this.
I use xfce since ascii and chimaera: I think it has a consistent
Hi,
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Hi,
On 11/13/21 4:06 PM, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote:
thanks for the hint. I did the upgrade using directly two of the
packages and, voilà things work again and USB disks and CD-ROM appear
correctly again in xfce.
actually, I was too quick too rejoyce. Installed new eudev and rebooted
Hello Svante,
On 11/13/21 1:32 PM, Svante Signell wrote:
Preparing to unpack .../eudev_3.2.9-9~beowulf1_amd64.deb ...
Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features
Hello, this bug has been solved by 3.2.9-10~beowulf1 available from
beowulf-proposed-updates. Or directly
Hello,
I upgraded from ascii to beowulf, almost everything smooth exceot eudev
which does not upgrade due to this:
Preparing to unpack .../eudev_3.2.9-9~beowulf1_amd64.deb ...
Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in
the running kernel:
- inotify(2)
Hi,
I have installed Chimaera on my Ultrabook - first as beta, then
upgraded constantly.
The system has a dual-disk setup under windows called smart cache or
fast cache.
One spinning rust and one smaller SSD. ON windows the two drives are
one as one with a cache.
Actually, when installing
Hi,
g4sra via Dng wrote:
A web search suggests that the following will compensate for the hardware
issues you are experiencing
I do not have your hardware and therefore cannot test.
edit /etc/default/grub and add parameters for i8042
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash
Hi,
On 2021-09-12 09:04:26 +0200 Riccardo Mottola via Dng
wrote:
> I swear there was a touchpad, now it is totally gone ! I am puzzled.
I found out at least why this happens. The EFI BIOS has a setting for "USB
Legacy mode" for the pointing device. If I enable it, the touchp
Hi,
Can I ask you back to my oiriginal issue? Installation media issues were
worked around anyway.
Using chimarera I updated in the meanwhile, kernel, etc. but I still have no
working touchpad, a hassle on a small Ultrabook the goal of which is to be
portable.
I wonder if the issue is at
Hi,
g4sra via Dng wrote:
> This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert additional
> installation media such as a USB stick.
> There are just too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every corner
> case, put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick and
Hi,
Steve Litt wrote:
> I hate the preceding hassle. Every Linux distro's install media should
> have all drivers available during installation. After installation, if
> the user wishes to remove all non-free from his computer, he can do so.
> Or, the installation process can come with an
Hi all,
I "converted" a laptop from Windows 7 to Devuan and as a test, I
installed chimaera. The intel display should have no issues.
Install wasn't too easy due to the system having only WiFi and no
Optical drive - the WiFi needs firmware not included in the install media.
I used an USB stick
Hi,
On 3/26/21 1:07 PM, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
Debian is engaging in a disgusting attack against RMS:
https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002
It is disgusting. On the GNUstep Mailing list after a post by Richard
himself, some people voiced to fork away from GNU,
A post,
Hi,
On 3/26/21 6:49 PM, Didier Kryn wrote:
Next step is trying to ban opponents to systemd ?
I wouldn't joke about that too much :)
Riccardo
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Hi,
Steve Litt wrote:
> Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with
> Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten it to work without Pulseaudio?
did you try nouveau? It is your only long-term hope, the short term
being using binary drivers.
I have a 7300 series card (so still 7
Hi Antony,
Antony Stone wrote:
> Yes, because Devuan itself only contains packages which needed to be modified
> from the Debian packages, due to Devuan not using systemd.
That explains the term "merged", right?
>
> All packages which are not affected by systemd not being present are not
>
Hi,
I have an ACX 111 wireless PCMCIA card which I want to use on Beowulf.
I think Debian supports it with acx-mac80211 and the acx100 is retired.
I also need firmware, some package it as acx111-firmware some tell you
to download it andput it in /lib/firmware
However I see no acx packages at
Hi!
Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote:
Dear All,
Lately, on an HP Probook 4540s, while booting Devuan Boewulf the
screen becomes completely unreabled with unsynchronized lines of
pixels. I will not be surprised if this is some sick joke by HP, to
force their customers to buy new, but I do not know
Hi,
On 23/08/2020 15:59, Hendrik Boom wrote:
There are files and directories.
Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
for something which might be a file or a directory?
if you refer to the "string" to object on the filesystem, "path" is a
good word for it.
A Path can
Hi,
On 6/12/20 9:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Maybe try ;https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ kerneloptions to
disable all spectre and meltdown stuff
I hope you mean the preceding as a diagnostic test and not as a
solution.
first, diagnostic on what is slowing down and stealing performance in
Hi all,
On 6/13/20 12:24 PM, Patrick Erdmann wrote:
Just to be sure, try this line as kernel parameters:
noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off
nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off tsx=on
tsx_async_abort=off mitigations=off
I tried all "noibrs noibpb nopti
Hi,
On 6/13/20 7:45 PM, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
Do you compile ArcticFox with the same compiler in both cases? GCC gets
slower for each release, it seems...
Yes, same version, gcc 6.5 - the highest I can use to compile.
I have issues compiling it with gcc 7 (actually, linking it...).
Hi all!
I just upgraded from ascii to beowulf a pretty decent laptop, equipped
with a core i7 and 8GB of RAM.
I upgraded everything in place: so same desktop environment, same
applications, same hard disk... just "apt-get dist-upgrade" essentially.
I even kept gcc6 because I had it before and I
Hi!
On 5/28/20 11:35 AM, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote:
There’s also a slightly newer version 4.19 available from backports
repository. While not as new as the most recent stable kernel, it
might be quicker and easier to test out than compiling as it’s
available through apt.
Hi all
let me resurrect this thread. I am now working on this computer regular,
lockdown has lessened here in Italy and I hope all you Devuaners are in
good help.
Unfortunately stability did not improve much
On 3/18/20 4:28 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
(1) Do we even know it's a kernel
Hi All!
I just devuanized "with success" another Toshiba Satellite.
Although much newer and faster than the older one I had running Debian
first, this one would still fall in the "Vintage" category. Same
installation layout... it is quite nice to use!
The laptop is very nice to use, things
Hi,
Antony Stone wrote:
I'm assuming that you're saying that things got noticeably worse when you
"upgraded" from Debian 7 Wheezy to Debian 8 Jessie (with the introduction of
systemd), but is that correct?
Yes. But things got even worse with Debian 9.
I'm intrigued as to how "like for
Hi "Tux"
tuxd3v wrote:
If someone is interested.. I can use also some help, no tot hijack this
One nice thing would be deb packages for it, on i686:)
I don't have a fast enough i686 machine with Devuan.. it needs 1.5GB of
ram at least. Maybe a version compiled on Ubuntu 16 works?
For me
Hello Aitor,
aitor wrote:
The issue was the same as you pointed out: that is, the version of the
compiler. It worked for me
only with gcc-6. Trying with gcc-7 the build process ends upwith the
mentioned non declared functions.
No idea about a possible solution so far.About the missing
Hi!
aitor wrote:
>
> I have ArcticFox working on amd64:
>
> http://gnuinos.org/arcticfox/arcticfox.png
>
> http://gnuinos.org/arcticfox/beta-devuan.png
>
> Here you are the tarball:
>
> gnuinos.org/arcticfox/arcticfox_amd64.tar.bz2
>
wonderful!
Riccardo
Hi Aitor,
aitor wrote:
>>
>>
>> ... or the requirement of a C linkage?
>>
>
> Forget that, the origin of the issue is in the mozconfig file, i guess.
>
what was the issue? please tell me.
I get missing symbols if I use any compiler newer than gcc 6.5 on linux
(e.g. gcc 7, gcc8).
So on
Hi all!
I want to cheer up and write thanks with a small success story of
Devuan and comparison to Debian.
I have an old Toshiba Satellite laptop, with a wonderful soft touch
keyboard, PS/2 Port, Serial console... very readable screen (althoug
800x600!) which always had Debian which I kept
Hi,
On 08/05/2020 22:34, Steve Litt wrote:
Arctic fox is a fork of PaleMoon. This is a good thing, because I and a
whole bunch of people dropped PaleMoon when PaleMoon's "executives"
issued lawyer threats to the OpenBSD project.
rest assured, no such restrictions for Arctic Fox.
We offer no
Hi,
Raul Claro wrote:
is there a way of holding a video- or an audioconference with
Firefox (or Vivaldi) on Devuan? The ones I have come in contact with.
such als /https://global.gotomeeting.com/, /work only with Windows or
Mac and Chrome.
Are there any Debian/Devuan alternatives
Hi,
aitor_czr wrote:
Tar is installed by default in the core system of devuan (first and
second stages of debootstrap.
In any case, i started working on my own minimalist browser. It's not
a joke:
http://www.gnuinos.org/screenshots/Screenshot_2020-04-11_18-14-41.png
At least, i only need a
Hi,
debian sadly removed some older video drivers:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955603
several of these are currently working or any case usable with some
workaround: most importantly they keep being useful a series of
wonderful laptops.. x86 and PPC.
Yes some could
Hi,
Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote:
> I've not noticed any problems but I've not been running anything CPU
> intensive. My processor is a AMD Phenon II X4 910e.
could be... The problematic laptop has Intel Core2 processors, I have
another laptop, similarly configured except the desktop environment,
Hi,
right now I don't have access to the computer - due to quarantine
restrictions I cannot move from my house.
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> (1) Do we even know it's a kernel problem?
I think yes. I am using ascii. The laptop has always been rock-stable. I
upgrade the kernel, I get two freezes in a
Hi Steve,
Steve Litt wrote:
> A few weeks ago we discussed simple, works-on-all-wmde components like
> fbpanel. Another one that I like is xbattmon. It's a no-frills battery
> monitor that presents as a very thin horizontal "gauge" across the
> bottom of the screen, whether or not you have a
Hi,
I am using Devuan on an HP laptop with intel 64bit cpu. Everything
worked very well, I did a lot of compilation and it is very stable,
never had a freeze in months!
[ 0.10] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
(family: 0x6, model: 0xf, stepping: 0x6)
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