Jim Ward

Thanks. @pepdebian! Turns out I'd shot meself in the foot with a script that I'd configured the greeter to run when my session started up to kill the Nvidia GPU. Worked FINE the very first time it runs (as in reboot), but not when trying to logout/login because the script did not exit with rc=0. OOOOPS! Fixed the script and all is well now! Meanwhile, would love to be able to use the much lighter greeter, ly, but I can't get it to build. (The ly greeter works great on EndeavourOS, where it was suggested...

I fiddle around with various DEs (but mostly WMs), so I was trying to log out of one, switch to another, and log back in. It just churned a bit and returned to the login dialog. I've only had this problem on a couple of other distros -- EndeavourOS and Salix -- and they both were solve by installing and using a display manager other than lightdm. I tried to get the very lightweight "ly" display manager (a TTY greeter, really) that I'm using with EndeavourOS, but it wouldn't install/build on PMOS....

This is my trusty but rusty 17.3" Samsung RF711 laptop, which originally came with Windows 7. It has SOOO many problems, mostly relating to thermal issues (fan can't be controlled and is weak as Hades, CPUs can't be undervolted, Nvidia GEForce 540 or whatever adds heat even when it's not in use, etc., etc.). I have 4 distros installed on the 512 GB internal SSD (peppermintOS being one of them) and two on an external bootable 512 GB SSD drive). I look for distros that seem to be light and sometimes...

Okay, nevermind! I downloaded the script to a file and edited it so that the $repo_code variable would have "bookworm" rather than "daedalus" (so not calling lsb_release) and then piped the hacked script to the "sudo bash" command and the rest is history. Interestingly, starting in liquorix reduced the initial memory footprint by ~13MB ! I now have "ondemand" CPU governor as well as userspace and performance. It seems to be the default, and even without tweaking, it's already showing better temperature...

Okay, nevermind! I downloaded the script to a file and edited it so that the $repo_code variable would have "bookworm" rather than "daedalus" (so not calling lsb_release) and then piped the hacked script to the "sudo bash" command and the rest is history. Interestingly, starting in liquorix reduced the initial memory footprint by ~13MB ! I now have "ondemand" CPU governor as well as schedutil and performance. It seems to be the default, and even without tweaking, it's already showing better temperature...

Has anyone successfully installed the Liquorix kernel in Peppermint OS? Would this work if you could override the "daedalus" (Devuan) release with an equivalent Debian release? (Is there one?) $ curl 'https://liquorix.net/install-liquorix.sh' | sudo bash % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 4082 100 4082 0 0 19085 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 19074 [INFO ] Possible distributions: debian Ign:1 https://liquorix.net/debian daedalus InRelease...

Thanks!

Most of my Linuxes run with thermald to manage CPU (etc.) temps. I didn't see it running in my ps_mem output, and was about to install it, when I ran "ps -ef | grep therm" and saw "[acpi_thermal_pm]" in the output. Does it do the same stuff as thermald, or woulc there still be a benefit to installing and running thermald?