On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 16:51, Ludovic Bellière <belliere.ludo...@proximus.be> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > It's most likely a debian issue. And to be more precise, a Xorg that > may not be up to date. I would advise you to check devuan's Xorg > version and check if the firmware of your laptop is talked about on the > internet. Ubuntu likely uses a more recent version of Xorg than debian, > or any other library that enable discovery of your display. > > All in all, a display doesn't seem to have to do anything with init > freedom. Would it? > > Ludovic > > On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:34:25 +0000 > Steve Scott via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > I've been a long time Devuan user, and have donated to the > > project because I would very much like to see it continue. I recently > > was forced to upgrade my laptop, having completely destroyed my old > > one, and upon installation (dual boot) of Beowulf 3.1.0 and reboot, > > was dropped into a shell prompt, no graphics. LSPCI revealed only 2 > > devices were actually identified, the others merely providing > > vendor/device ID information, including the NVIDIA gfx device. > > dmidecode provided plenty of information however. I was able to > > install the driver from the vendor and get CUDA working, but was > > never able to get Xorg to recognize the display. > > > > Since a desktop was pretty critical to my needs for this machine, I > > gave Ubuntu a shot - not that I like Ubuntu all that much, but they > > do seem to have desktop setup polished well. > > > > Whadayaknow, Ubuntu pretty much discovered everything, so it appears > > I will be living here for the time being. Happy to provide whatever > > data you need. SWS
I would doubt it's an Xorg issue, as both Debian/Devuan and recent Ubuntu releases use the same Xorg version. Devuan uses xorg/kernel packages unmodified from Debian so the versions listed for beowulf and buster will be identical, across both Devuan and Debian package information sites. https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=xserver-xorg=1:7.7+19 https://packages.debian.org/buster/xserver-xorg You didn't mention which version of Ubuntu you tried, but for Xorg that's irrelevant as the LTS and latest release have the same version as Debian/Devuan. https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/xserver-xorg https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/xserver-xorg Since it works in Ubuntu, it's unlikely to be a BIOS version issue (although that might make a difference for older kernel versions?). Most likely, you could try upgrading to the backports version of linux kernel in Beowulf to see if that makes a difference. Ubuntu recent releases have a newer kernel version than Devuan Beowulf/Debian Buster main repository, while the beowulf-backports/buster-backports repository has a newer kernel than the Ubuntu repository. https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/linux-image-generic https://packages.debian.org/buster/linux-image-amd64 https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/linux-image-amd64 The default kernel package on beowulf amd64 is `4.19+105+deb10u9` while beowulf-backports has `5.10.13-1~bpo10+1` _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng