| GNUmoon2 | fsmithred: Hi, I've made some progress with figuring out why the monitors connected to the thunderbolt 3 dock are not working in devuan, but do in Ubuntu/popos. | 01:20 |
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| GNUmoon2 | Using the ddcutil command was very useful in showing a possible cause of the problem, otherwise I was going to give up... | 01:21 |
| GNUmoon2 | ddcutil gets EDID info over Display Data Channel running on the i2c bus. | 01:23 |
| GNUmoon2 | When the dock is connected, the i2c device cannot see the DP present in Devuan, it only show "/sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/name: AUX B/port B." | 01:29 |
| GNUmoon2 | Whilst in popos, ddcutil shows extra i2c buses: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-9/name: DPMST /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/name: DPDDC-B | 01:30 |
| GNUmoon2 | I'd like to install the chimarera version on the laptop to explore this further. How can I install the liveISO? | 01:31 |
| fsmithred | GNUmoon2, do those names show up in the kernel configs in popos? | 01:53 |
| fsmithred | grep DPMST /boot/config-whatever in popos | 01:54 |
| GNUmoon2 | Nope, nothing from $ grep DPMST config-5.4.0-7642-generic | 01:55 |
| GNUmoon2 | or for $ grep DPD config-5.4.0-7642-generic | 01:56 |
| fsmithred | you want to install one of my isos? | 01:58 |
| GNUmoon2 | yes please :) | 01:59 |
| fsmithred | it's old | 01:59 |
| fsmithred | July 2 | 01:59 |
| fsmithred | https://get.refracta.org/files/experimental/snapshot_chimaera_01-20200702_1212.iso | 02:00 |
| fsmithred | if Refracta Installer is not in the apps menu, run 'sudo refractainstaller' in a terminal | 02:01 |
| GNUmoon2 | Yeah, that ISO is the one you sent to me earlier to test. | 02:01 |
| GNUmoon2 | thanks for the command to install. | 02:02 |
| fsmithred | I haven't made any newer chimaera isos | 02:02 |
| fsmithred | there might be debootstrap instructions in the user's home | 02:02 |
| fsmithred | that would be another way to install chimaera | 02:02 |
| fsmithred | alternative is do a minimal beowulf install and then upgrade to chimaera | 02:03 |
| fsmithred | if you install from the live iso, just 'apt update && apt upgrade' after you reboot into the system. | 02:03 |
| GNUmoon2 | Thanks. Is it possible to install onto an existing encrypted drive? or it is outside the scope of what refractainstaller can do? | 02:09 |
| fsmithred | where on the encrypted drive??? | 02:16 |
| fsmithred | you can install to a separate partition and encrypt the filesystem on that partition | 02:16 |
| GNUmoon2 | I had installed Beowulf using whole disk encryption. | 02:18 |
| fsmithred | lvm? | 02:18 |
| GNUmoon2 | Just reading refractainstaller help, looks like it supports whole disk encryption. | 02:18 |
| GNUmoon2 | Yes, LVM on top of encryption. | 02:18 |
| fsmithred | you want to keep that or replace it? | 02:19 |
| GNUmoon2 | I'd like to keep it if possible, save re-doing it. | 02:19 |
| fsmithred | well, there might be a way to install it to a spare logical volume in your lvm, but it's probably a pain in the ass to do that | 02:20 |
| GNUmoon2 | Yeah, maybe I'll keep it simple until I solve this thunderbolt problem. | 02:20 |
| GNUmoon2 | ONce I have a solution, I'll do a proper install :) | 02:20 |
| fsmithred | if there's free space outside the lvm, you could install to a partition there | 02:20 |
| fsmithred | if you have a spare usb stick, you could install to that like it's a hard drive | 02:22 |
| GNUmoon2 | ah yeah, that's a good idea. | 02:22 |
| GNUmoon2 | fsmithred: I installed Chimaera and apt updated, authorised the dock. No success. Still cannot see the i2c DPDDC stuff. | 10:32 |
| GNUmoon2 | I've copied the popos kernel config and and $make oldconfig with the 5.8 in devuan. However, I'm having trouble compiling. | 10:33 |
| GNUmoon2 | At least once I've recompiled the kernel, it should be no different to the popos version... | 10:33 |
| GNUmoon2 | Following https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.kernel-compilation.html, up to compiling the kernel with "$ make deb-pkg -j9 -d" yields the error "dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned extit status 2" | 13:16 |
| GNUmoon2 | nothing specific about why it failed. | 13:17 |
| GNUmoon2 | Same process worked in Beowulf to update the kernel. | 13:17 |
| fsmithred | There's a kernel build howto at forums.debian.net that I've used. I'll find the link. | 13:23 |
| fsmithred | or maybe not. I can't get there. | 13:24 |
| fsmithred | Pulled this from history. I think it's the right thread. Not sure which post this is: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=36525 | 13:26 |
| fsmithred | bbl | 13:30 |
| GNUmoon2 | Thank you, I'll have another try tomorrow. | 13:31 |
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