On Friday 13 October 2023 04:58:45 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Oh, I forgot:
You'd need "non-free-firmware" "and "non-free" repositories and you have to instll amd64-firmware.
Nik
Hmmm. So far I have managed to avoid using anything non-free, and would like to keep it that way. I have no problems getting online, despite occasional warnings about missing firmware.
Do you believe that this missing firmware is the cause of these weird glitches? I mean, I have *never* used non-free firmware in any Devuan installation. Only my very first Debian installation, back in the days of Jessie, used non-free, and only because I wasn't yet familiar with a Debian system, and wanted to try to get past the lower hurdles.
This is not the case now. I can generally keep my machine running and stable without using non-free firmware. But of course, these weird glitches that have started creeping in, in the past few months, could be a sign of things to come.
Bill