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Aki wrote: 2024-12-22 07:09 I’m not a ROCM user, but according to installation instruction [1], Debian 12 is supported.

Hope this helps.

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[1] AMD - ROCm™ Software 6.3.1- Quick start installation guide

Thanks for the link but it needs Python 3.10, which isn't available on Debian. It also suggests add an Ubuntu jammy repo, so a FrankenDebian.

I have a system with hybrid AMD graphics (iGPU + dGPU), I need to get OpenCL to work and ROCm for some tensorflow related projects. What is the recommended way to do it considering AMD ROCM does not officially support Debian?

I'm considering an Ubuntu container and install ROCm in it, would that work? And how can I integrate it with my Debian host to make working with the container less of a hassle?

I do have one Stretch still running that needs taken down, or not. Buster didn't do it for me, Bullseye was close, then Bookworm was way better and fatally flawed in a few areas. This simply means the right choice was made years ago to virtualize everything so everyone can live together. I still can't manage to fit everything into one box. Fortunately I do many things normal users likely don't do, and don't do most things normal people do, so I continue to make it up as I go along.


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reinob wrote: 2024-12-16 16:48 No. I had Ubuntu installed (on HDD) and used debootstrap, from within Ubuntu, to replace the stuff. I may have used a temporary partition, but in any case after the next reboot debian came and ubuntu was gone

That's a bit "extreme"
I didn't expect you could replace a linux distro in place.

reinob wrote: 2024-12-12 18:17 My first debian install was using debootstrap to remove ubuntu (pangolin something or other) from under its feet. It worked

So you wiped the root using a Live USB then debootstrapped or you did it somehow from Ubuntu itself?

No, but my sample size is small (2). As long as you stick to official repositories you should be quite safe.
Even in the old windows days, most "viruses" I found were these annoying shortcut viruses spreading over USB flash drives.

I use Bitwarden and Aegis. Open source and does the job well.

Aki wrote: 2024-12-10 19:55 The grub-pc (grub for PC/BIOS)

That's what made it unexpected for me, my system boots from EFI so how exactly I ended up with "grub-pc" alongside "grub-efi"? I don't know (probably debootstrap or incorrect grub install command by me).

jmgibson1981 wrote: 2024-12-07 18:07 I do a basic install from a chroot because Im always tinkering.

So you do it using "debootstrap"?
I was forced to do that from a Fedora live system because I couldn't get a Debian stable ISO with a backports kernel, which is needed for my hardware.

I start with a minimal netinstall and then install the minimal LXQt stuff, LibreOffice, Geany, Strawberry, mpv, Syncthing, and a bunch of Texlive stuff to work with Pandoc. I get Firefox installed then use the about:config to get rid of the stuff I'll never use (sync, accounts, that read later thing). Then I'll usually install Nicotine and beets. I do other stuff to get it the way I like it, but try not to spend too much time tweaking and ricing. Honestly, I could probably just start with the ...

Hallvor wrote: 2024-12-06 07:31 So you could reach the desktop, but still added nomodeset? Is that correct?

Yes I just wanted to see what happens. I have no issue without it. I guess it doesn't play nicely with AMD GPUs.

Hallvor wrote: 2024-12-05 11:37 I do this, more or less: viewtopic.php?t=155919

Interesting post. I tried to add "nomodeset" to grub but SDDM ceased to work. It does delay the graphics driver loading but appears to break mine completely.

The only time it disappeared is when I purged "grub-pc" while keeping "grub-efi". I don't know why exactly I had "grub-pc", maybe because I installed using debootstrap.

Anyways I fixed it by reinstalling grub-efi related packages.

I usually install Debian using the minimal netinstall then do the following:

- Install a minimal Plasma desktop with baseapps and spectacle
- Install Libreoffice and its Plasma theme integration
- Install flatpak and its Discover backend
- Install unattended-upgrades
- Replace pulseaudio with pipewire
- Configure zram.
- Install and Configure firewalld zones
- Enable YAMA (level 1) for extra security
- Use a custom snapper daily script for daily snapshots
- Enable backports

What do you do ...

This kind of work is typically done on GitHub, GitLab or any similar service. It isn't a good idea to post it here.

Since the last X11 security update (not sure if related), my "Battery and Brightness" menu in KDE becomes completely out of sync with the current display and keyboard brightness. If I change the keyboard or display brightness, it does change in reality but the menu stays stuck at the login values. I can still use the brightness slider and it does apply the changes, but will fall out of sync when I use the function keys. Another side effect is that on resume from sleep, the screen brightness is ...