On Friday 13 October 2023 07:35:19 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Anno domini 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 07:08:36 -0700
You'd need "non-free-firmware" "and "non-free" repositories and you have to instll amd64-firmware.
Nik
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Some of the glitches you observe most likely come from not having th microcode patches installed. Hardware nowadays is not what it used to be :) You'd need for your ideapad:
amd64-microcode firmware-amd-graphics firmware-iwlwifi (most likely)
Okay, so I just did an upgrade of my daedalus system. Then I enabled non-free and contrib in my sources.list, and tried installing these packages, both as is and with * appended (in order to catch any packages that might replace these), but I keep getting pretty much this same error message:
###### Package firmware-amd-graphics is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
E: Unable to locate package amd64-microcode E: Package 'firmware-amd-graphics' has no installation candidate E: Unable to locate package firmware-iwlwifi ######
I also tried just to upgrade with non-free and contrib enabled, and the only package offered for upgrade is fonts-ubuntu.
Can't say yet whether my system runs any better now, or at least more glitch-free, after this upgrade. That will probably have to wait for at least another reboot.
I am about to search firmware in general, just to see if anything similar get caught up in my trawling blindly for likely packages. I know that they all look rather familiar, but they seem to have been made unavailable to me, specifically, and I take it very personally.
;-)
Thanks for your patience. This is strange new adventure in system upgrade.
Bill