On Friday 13 October 2023 09:00:47 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
> Anno domini 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 08:49:53 -0700
>
> > > > > You'd need "non-free-firmware" "and "non-free" repositories and you
> > > > > have to instll amd64-firmware.
{snipping throughout ...}
> > > You'd need for your ideapad:
> > >
> > > amd64-microcode
> > > firmware-amd-graphics
> > > firmware-iwlwifi (most likely)
> >
> Add "non-free-firmware" in the line after "non-free", e.g.:
>
> deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free
> non-free-firmware
>
> Nik
Okay, so I -- ever the conservative, at least in how I run my machines -- have
changed the appropriate lines in my sources.list and upgraded my machine,
then specifically installed these packages. So I have got that far.
Regarding an upgrade to excalibur, I am waiting on that, as I do have a
working machine, and stable in the sense of not crashing or anything, just a
lot of these weird glitches.
For example, as I was writing this email, suddenly my external keyboard went
totally wild, and start repeating characters even though I was typing as
normal. When I hit backspace to erase those added characters, it deleted
practically the entire email, both recent and quoted text. When I tried to
hit ctrl-Z to undo, it seemed to be undoing some completely other text. I had
to discard that email, then start over again from scratch.
This is a good example of the maddening randomness of these weird glitches
that I have been experiencing over the past few months on daedalus.
I decided that I do not want to attempt a reinstallation of my system just
yet, since it is, after all, a working system, after a fashion. To attempt a
minimal installation of chimaera, then to upgrade to daedalus, then to
upgrade to excalibur, seems more uncertain than just to sit for a while on
these most recent upgrades and recently installed packages, to see if the
glitches disappear and my system returns to something like normal.
So far at least it is no worse than before, but I will have to wait for at
least another reboot to be able to judge if I have gained anything by these
changes.
Bill
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