libera/#devuan/ Sunday, 2024-04-28

ted-iousXenguy: What's wrong with native irc clients?01:16
Xenguyted-ious, Are you asking me what's wrong with bitchx?01:17
ted-iousXenguy: I guess?02:03
XenguyYou are tedious, take to offtopic please02:03
ted-iousI'm only tedious when my irc client loses its connection and I have to put the - back in.02:04
darwintried installing Devuan 6 on a PC with Radeon RX Vega 64 and 2560x1600 monitor but the screen is all garbled (was working fine before)04:32
darwindo medium resolutions not work?04:33
al1r4dhmm, i dont have experience on that, sorry04:35
darwinshould I try Devuan 5?04:55
al1r4dmaybe driver issues(?)04:57
ted-iousIsn't devuan 6 many months before it's finished?04:59
brocashelma whole year plus a few months at the earliest05:06
darwinsame happened on Devuan 5.  The first screen displays fine, but as soon as I choose install it goes garbled05:55
ted-iousWhich installer are you using?05:57
darwindevuan_daedalus_5.0.1_amd64_desktop.iso06:04
darwinimage linked at http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=49732#p4973206:05
darwinthe image seems to have disappeared from imgur.com ... where should I upload instead?06:06
ted-iousdarwin: Try this. https://envs.sh06:18
ted-iousAnd have you booted a live image yet to make sure your video card works?06:19
darwinit does06:19
darwinthe first screen is fine06:19
darwinthe second screen gets garbled06:19
darwinsame happened on another PC with a different new video card and different monitor06:19
darwinit's been happening since at least Devuan 4.  Someone said it's because of old kernel display drivers06:21
darwinpreviously ran other OS fine but those have more problems than Devuan06:21
ted-iousWhat first and second screen do you mean?06:26
ted-iousI don't think the live image has more than one screen.06:27
darwinof course it does06:32
darwinthe first screen shows several/many options including at least three choices of installation type (standard, expert, another type) and more options06:32
darwini just pressed enter which went to the next screen06:32
darwinthe first screen is blue and white.  The next probably has some red06:33
ted-iousThat sounds like the installer not the live image.06:49
darwini said I was installing06:52
n4dirdid you try a live image?06:53
n4diras in: too.06:53
CueXXIIIdarwin: sounds like your video card has problems with linux, what card are you using?06:55
darwinno, it doesn't; works fine on all other GNU/Linux06:55
rrqdarwin: that first screen is part of bootloading; the second is the first one brought up by the kernel06:55
darwina Radeon RX Vega 6406:55
rrqyou may need to instead press TAB on the first screen and then used a different vga= setting06:56
rrq... before pressing ENTER to start the installation06:56
darwini see06:56
darwinthanks; now able to install07:09
CueXXIIIoh, there is a vga=788 per default in the boot line from grub, i guess you should remove that; and maybe remove the nomodeset, too07:11
CueXXIIIseems vga=788 means 800x600 at 16 bit, i think newer graphic cards might no longer support that legacy mode07:16
rrqjust to be really detail picky: the installer uses syslinux and not grub07:30
rrq(mostly because grub doesn't offer boot menu help pages)07:31
darwinwhy not make default 'vga=ask'?07:40
rrqI guess so far most installations have worked fine with the current default so there hasn't been a need to make the installation process more complex07:46
ted-iousdarwin: vga=ask was removed from the kernel years ago.07:49
ted-iousI keep hoping they'll put it back in but I don't know what it would take.07:49
darwinit's not removed07:51
darwini used it to install07:51
ted-iousOh they finally did put it back in?07:54
ted-iousWow I didn't think that would ever happen.07:54
onefangThe problem with vga=ask is there's sooo many modes listed for modern cards that most of them scroll off the screen.  So you need to know the mode you want anyway, unless you get lucky.07:55
darwini've used it every year since about 1997 or '807:55
onefangI used it last year with a recent kernel.07:56
ted-ioushttps://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92817/what-happened-to-vga-ask-in-newer-kernels07:58
ted-iousIt has been replaced with video= which requires resolutions instead. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt07:59
ted-iousMaybe debian has patches to add it back in?08:00
CueXXIIIstill the devuan installer specifies vga=788 for the kernel…08:02
rrq(and nomodeset)08:03
CueXXIIIwhich is a 16bit mode - https://pendrivelinux.com/vga-boot-modes-to-set-screen-resolution/08:03
CueXXIIIdebian 12.5.0 netinstall does so, too08:05
darwini doubt it's patched--Slackware isn't but always worked08:29
darwinhow can I install OpenCL ( to work like on repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.1/ubuntu )?  I know some Debian users did a certain way?08:30
CueXXIIIdarwin: no idea if it works, but you could try the ubuntu install instructions08:38
CueXXIIIhttps://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/how-to/native-install/ubuntu.html08:38
darwineven I know you can't just follow those09:11
darwini could tell you why but it's also a lot more complicate than what I know09:47
darwinnever used CD but it keeps saying 'Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Devuan GNU/Linux 5.0.1 daedalus amd64 - desktop 20230914' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press [Enter]'10:14
rrqI think it easier to mount the CD manually and then use it with file:///path in sources.list ... (I've never had any luck with cdrom://)10:32
rrqiirr the cdrom variant requires a good fstab setup as well so it's messier10:34
darwini did except linked it to /media/cdrom but it keeps asking me when in the middle of files10:40
darwinthe ISO10:41
rrqcheck sources.list to make sure the cdrom entry is commented out10:41
CueXXIIIdo you have multiple cdrom: entires in /etc/apt/sources.list(.d/) ?10:41
darwinokay, but now it said: E: The repository 'file:/dcd daedalus Release' is not signed.10:45
darwini didn't use a CD10:45
darwini got that working now, but still not OpenCL10:56
darwinwhat you left out is you have to say '[trusted=yes]'11:04
rrqta11:16
rrqwhich package(s) are you looking for?11:22
dvbsthello! is the update from devuan 4 to 5 100% seemless or is there a possibility that something might not work? should i back up my system?12:34
joergyou should always backup your system13:11
archdummyHow to get grub-btrfs displaying near each snapshot what pre/post package apt was installing, as a comment? (As on arch)16:54
archdummyIt seems that on debian and all, the grub only comments "apt" without any additional info on the CLI that was used...16:55
archdummySee screenshots here https://github.com/david-cortes/snapper-in-debian-guide16:56
archdummyhttps://github.com/david-cortes/snapper-in-debian-guide?tab=readme-ov-file#debian-with-automated-snapper-rollbacks16:57
archdummyAny spac-pac equivalent for apt?17:53
archdummyAny snap-pac * equivalent for apt?17:59
toinoutest19:10
plasma41archdummy: This source file https://sources.debian.org/src/snapper/0.10.6-1.1/debian/80snapper/ looks to be the one responsible for creating snapshots before and after an apt operation. It would probably need to be editted to be able to do what you want.20:20
plasma41archdummy: Thanks for the link to that guide. I'll stash it away for my personal use later.20:33
plasma41Also, I haven't checked in a while, but at one point the Debian maintainer for snapper had disabled the package's cron jobs as a workaround to some issue, expecting users to be able to rely on using systemd timers instead. That obviously won't work on Devuan. One of my back burner-ed projects is to get the cron jobs fixed and reintroduced into the Debian package.20:38
golinuxarchdummy: FYI . . . http://deb.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt20:53
archdummyplasma41: Damn,22:42
archdummygolinux: y'all are strong enough to quote me the codeline o-o22:43
archdummyI'm not skilled enough, but if y'all know someone who could do it, here is the snap-pac repo https://github.com/wesbarnett/snap-pac22:44
archdummyI can't tell for sure but I suspect it's the missing piece for getting detailed comments on grub screen / when issuing ~ snapper ls22:44
archdummyWhy a broadcom wifi card has NO issues detecting networks when booting on debian live iso, but after proceeding to the install, it won't detect nothing?23:58

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