[tde-users] Re: half-baked devuan installation - hippy trippy update

On Saturday 14 October 2023 14:37:02 William Morder wrote: Hello Nik, and greetings to all ... Well, I did try what you, Nik, recommend here, but it really didn't work for me. The main problem is that hardly any TDE packages will download (apparently due to some compatibility issues with devuan excalibur), so I am left with only a skeleton system which is not nearly adequate for my needs. If I could have my dream room full of computers for testing, and only one or two that are my working machines, then I could probably figure this out. But alas, I just don't have the space at present, and my working machine is my only machine for everything. Anyway, so there was an overnight installation binge, and a lot of swearing and cursing whoever made this suggestion, but all is well now. At last I returned to devuan chimaera, which still installs just fine, using the plain text and expert mode, and everything is working; except of course that those "weird glitches" (which I described in earlier posts) still remain, and seem to have neither rhyme nor reason about them. It occurs to me just to buy a new wireless keyboard and mouse, but I haven't got that far yet. Next time I visit our local computer shop, I have put that on my list, along with some new flash drives, some Raspberry Pi devices, and other goodiess. One thing that was sort of interesting, and I would like to share a screenshot taken with my phone, but for some reason I cannot get it off my phone. Maybe later, as it's interesting. It looks like some sort of hippy dippy trippy poster from the 1960s, the sort of thing that we used to see to advertise rock concerts, love-ins, or some sort of event at a vegetarian commune somewhere out (very far out) in the countryside. Maybe somebody out there can explain to me why this happened. At that time, I had upgraded from devuan chimaera to daedalus, and it was after my last post to the mailing list. Things were working, but the machine was acting just a little more erratic than these weird glitches, so I rebooted, and when I got past the start-up screens and login screen (when my fingerprint splash window loads), suddenly all the colors were, I think, reversed: reds were green, etc. Also, my wifi no longer worked (no signals at all), and all window settings went from 1920 x 1080 to some really primitive-looking size, sort of like what we used to see on our computer screens from before about 1990. Now I am not quite sure what to do, as upgrading even from chimaera to daedalus has been not quite satisfactory, and upgrading further to excalibur doesn't work at all. Moreover, these new installation images seem to have some kind of issue with my own machine. I don't know if it's the graphics card or the AMD 64 Ryzen. (I have again attached the screenshot for my model and specs, as it's small, so if anybody's interested, they don't have to go sifting through all the previous posts in this thread.) It's still a pretty new machine, got it only about 18 months ago. And I took out the 128 gb SSD that came factory installed, and replaced it with a new, virgin, untouched 2 tb SSD, and never booted into a Windoze system at all, but install devuan chimaera on that on my first boot. Back when I first made the switch from debian to devuan, it was during the jessie release, when both distros shared the same name. Next came stretch/ascii, but I never did manage to get that installed. I waited, then skipped right over that release and went to devuan beowulf (= buster). Maybe that's what will have to happen here. Bill