13 Oct
2023
13 Oct
'23
2:05 p.m.
On Friday 13 October 2023 04:49:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
So I read through your last mail :)
Anno domini 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 02:18:06 -0700
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
If I follow something like this plan, then I think I would just do a kind of
extended version of what I am doing already, which is to do a minimal
installation of chimaera; then change sources.list and upgrade to daedalus;
then change sources.list again and upgrade to excalibur.
I think that, at the moment, this seems the most feasible plan for me to move
ahead and keep a working system. I already have daedalus installed now, of
course, but I wonder if I ought to do a complete reinstallation, or merely to
try upgrading to excalibur now?
Bill
Well, let's wait to see what you have to say
after reading the rest of my
description. I cannot really login via ssh from another machine, if
that's what you mean, because I don't have another machine that I can use
at present. However, I can change my sources.list and upgrade to
Excalibur like that, if it is really necessary to test the theory.
My gut instinct tells me that this is really a graphics issue; such as, a
problem with my graphics card not being up to the new installation image
of Devuan Daedalus. And if this is so, then it is unlikely that it will
be better prepared for the installation image for Excalibur. Am I right?
No images for excalibur yet - I think.
You could try to add this to the kernel parameters inside the grub.cfg -
but it might be that you have to do it blind: vga=792
Other option (low chance of success): add an external monitor. I'm not sure
if your bios let's you define it as primary, but you could try.
Next option (might be needed anyway): BIOS-upgrade. IMO you need to boot
the original SSD, make a bios upgrade. Last time I checked that only works
from M$ for the AMD Ideapad.
Another option (best chance of success): Install chimaera minimal (or
whatever you have runnng right now), upgrade to daedalus (you might skip
this), upgrade to excalibur. Be prepared that you loose X11 in the process,
but that does not matter. Remove all packages that don't have an upgrade
candidate: # apt install apt-show-versions
# apt-show-versions |grep --invert-match uptodate
It might be wise not to reboot while upgrading to excalibur before the
excalibur kernel 6.5.xxx is installed.
Nik