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Federico

@ tammi806, Vverve and all

To be precise, the 6.6.1 is not bad: it may only give problems on specific hardware, namely recent Intel video chips.

Federico

Regarding the above discussion about what to do if the version update is broken.

In Federico's case, updating from Easy 6.5.4 to 6.6.1

I have now made it easier to rollback:

https://bkhome.org/news/202502/rollback-if-broken-after-version-update.html

This feature will be in the next release of ...

Federico

What about the pulseaudio mixer?
Right-click on audio tray icon, choose "Mixer..."

Look in "Input devices" tab, it should show your microphone.
A common problem is it is muted, need to press the unmute button.

Of course it isn't muted. I think I do use the mixer as it should be.

Screenshot ...

Federico

Did you search for missing audio firmware?

# dmesg > dmesg.log
# geany dmesg.log

So, first of all:

# dmesg | grep -i audio
[ 34.482986] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[ 34.540439] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ...

Federico

@ all

So, the problem is now solved . The way I fixed my situation is as follows: I remembered that I also have jet another system to try to run the stick on: it's an old desktop running a 5th gen Intel Core CPU and DDR 3 memory. I tried and it booted fine. So, from there I updated again from the ...

Federico

@ Caramel

Thanks so much Caramel!
I will try this on saturday.

Maybe the reason why it does not start from USB on my other laptop with EasyOS already installed on its SSD is that originally I cloned the system from this stick so, even though the 2 systems have followed different usage / update ...

Federico

So, I tried it on my desktop (see configuration below) and I loose the image (screen goes black) after the X server starts. This must be due to the fact that I couldn't install the new version of the Nvidia SFS jet. I can however type the combination Ctrl+Alt+F2 to exit the X server and go back to ...

Federico

@ Caramel

I don't know how you can know me better than myself! Yes, you are right I think I left that file there when I was messing up because of problems launching AnyDesk . Anyway, that shouldn't be the cause of the problem, but if you remind me of how to save the session from the command-line I ...

Federico

Thank you so much for the immediate answer!

Of course I tried. If I run xorgwizard the Intel driver is not listed at all, and the X -Server does also not run by selecting any other driver. If I reboot and select Options --> Fix broken video at the Limine boot screen, then the Intel driver is ...

Federico

Hello Barry!
I just updated from v 6.5.4 to v 6.6.1 on my private laptop (it's also an Asus Zenbook , but older, based on the Intel Tiger Lake architecture), using the update icon on the desktop as usual.
After the update the X -Server does not start any more. It looks like the Intel video driver ...

Federico

So, now using the recovered system. I would still like to clearly understand if this failure was solely related to the presence of the KDE apps or not. Or if the KDE apps have nothing to do with what happened at all. In this latter case, why didn't anyone else report a similar situation?

Federico

A further note about the broken update 6.5 to 6.5.1.

If it has broken your update, boot up another distro, and go to /mnt/${WKG_DEV}/${WKG_DIR}.session of the afflicted EasyOS, and delete /run and /var/run

Then bootup and it should be fixed, as long as your attempts to fix it earlier have not ...

Federico

A further note about the above problem.

If it has broken your update, boot up another distro, and go to /mnt/${WKG_DEV}/${WKG_DIR}.session of the afflicted EasyOS, and delete /run and /var/run

Then bootup and it should be fixed, as long as your attempts to fix it earlier have not introduced a ...

Federico

I don't know for option 5.
If you use option 4 (and if you have updated from 6.5) you will revert back to the snapshot created at the upgrade to 6.5 .
Easy 6.5 was released the 3rd december. The content of /files is not lost

PS : After return to Easy 6.5, I removed the symbolic link /run in ...

Federico

Same problems. I had to go back to 6.5 with the option 4 at boot.

The first error message was (approximately) :
Making the filesystem usable cp : cannot overwrite non_directory /mnt/.easy_ro/easy_sfs/var/run
ln: failed to create symlink link /var/run file exists

My hypothesis : it's related to ...

Federico

Updated to v 6.5.1 and I unfortunately have to report serious problems. Video went from a full HD resolution to just 800x600 pixel, no matter how do I set it on xorgwizard , so that the desktop is unusable. Furtherly there is totally no input: no mouse and no keyboard. I can't even do CTRL+ALT+F2 to ...

Federico

Federico, thank you for your suggestions, but I doubt the hardware is a problem. The laptop with 5 different EasyOS and Puppys, is running by wifi from my router, I can send a file using BlueTooth from the earlier version of BluePup (5.50 if I remember correct) in EasyPup. The command lspci only ...

Federico

Re: Bluetooth

Yes, I retested a few minutes ago, and both Scarthgap and Daedalus report 'no default controller available'.
I checked my laptop's bios to confirm BT activation, and I also sent an image to my phone by BT, from the same laptop, using EasyPup 2.5.1, so there's no any technical ...

Federico

I installed QEmu by installing the packages:

- qemu-system-x86_7.2
- qemu-system-gui_7.2
- qemu-system-data_7.2
- qemu-system-common_7.2

several dependencies got automatically installed, among which libvirglrenderer1_0.10.4-1 . The system is now unfortunately totally muted: no audio volume applet ...

Federico

@ BarryK

But this time our new release is incredible and adds several extremely important and useful features. Why do people orbit more around other distributions? Maybe because they do not work as expected and there is more to do to learn / fix them (it must be so that some distributions comes ...

Federico

I posted a review of EasyOS Daedalus 6.5 on Distrowatch but it hasn't been published jet. We have gained 5 positions on the ranking in a short time, but I honestly can't believe that there's still so many above us. Daedalus is probably not well known to the masses jet. I wonder how exactly that ...

Federico

WoW!

I report perfectly working audio via Bluetooth on both Daedalus and Scarthgap 6.5. It didn't work on previous versions, if I remember well.

My hardware:

1)

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA ...

Federico

The last 32 bit system I had (and still have) is a Toshiba Portege R500 , production year 2007 (almost 20 years ago). It was a very good machine for its time (I miss Toshiba as PC manufacturer).
The real reason why I keep this laptop is that I don't want to forget how software once was. It basically ...

Federico

Distrowatch has a policy of at least a 3-month gap between announcing new versions of a distribution.

6.0 was announced in June, so a new version can be announced.

I have to email them to let them know. They normally won't do it automatically.

Right now I'm working on improving Daedalus ...

Federico

The correct word is revolutionary . This release of Easy Daedalus is revolutionary !
Unfortunately, there's still no trace of it on DistroWatch . I don't know if someone is entitled to update the data on DistroWatch or if these data is actually only maintained by the owner(s) of the website, but at ...

Federico

Dear Barry,
I updated to v 6.4.4 and I confirm that there was no need of doing anything. KDE Dolphin still workiing perfectly (and also with extraordinary speed)! This basically means something great: in my opinion, EasyOS Daedalus is now the best Linux distribution in existence, which can also be ...

Federico

Yes

Dear Barry, if this is true, these are really great news!
I'm looking forward to testing the next versions of Easy Scarthgap and Easy Daedalus , featuring these corrections and also the new JWM 2.4.7 (to be honest I don't think that there will be many reasons to stay with Scarthgap if ...

Federico

@ BarryK and Caramel,

Dear BarryK and Caramel,

this looks really good and sounds very promising!

Do you mean that Dolphin will keep on working perfectly, even after a system update?

Will this also work on Easy Daedalus (on which it's even more important)?

Thank you so much!

Federico

I looked at the man page for kbuildsycoca5:

https://man.archlinux.org/man/kbuildsycoca5.8.en

...note, the debian kbuildsycoca5 does not support that "--global" option.

The utility writes to file ${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/ksycoca5_*
where XDG_CACHE_HOME=${HOME}/.cache
for Dolphin running as root, that ...

Federico

Dear all,
for the ones who use the KDE apps like me, I've written a small script which can be used to automatically fix the Dolphin contextual menu after the system has been updated, which is used to choose the application for opening a particular file, among all the available ones, and to define ...

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