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    • raymac46
      I have upgraded Spiral Linux to the latest stable release but I was unable to configure linux kernel 6.12.9+bpo and could not boot. Fortunately kernel 6.11.10+bpo was still around so I booted from that and then removed 6.12.9+bpo. I'll leave things as is for a while.
    • Hedon James
      i haven't had these issues you are experiencing.  I upgraded my Spiral Linux in place and am currently drawing from Debian Bookworm (Stable) repos, v12.9.  My LXQT version is 1.2.0.  I note the developer (geckolinux is the developer of Spiral, as well as Gecko) indicates this was fixed in a later version of LXQT, so maybe updating packages, or upgrading to next version of Spiral/Debian solves the problem for you.   Before I locked in Spiral as my choice for a base, I purposely chose the PRIOR version and immediately upgraded in place to verify that in-place upgrades worked without issue.  I was SUPREMELY pleased to report no issues whatsoever; which was in start contrast to all the minor quirks and issues experienced with upgrading Ubuntu in place.  And it was VERY easy (instructions on the Spiral website).  So perhaps you want to consider that?   Ironically, I chose Spiral because it was "pure Debian" base, but with proprietary software enabled from startup.  Now that Debian has modified their policy to allow for the same thing, there's no reason for Spiral to exist anymore, IMO.  But it draws purely from Debain repos, so no harm, no foul.  And it did provide a start point closer to my desired configs than stock Debian did.  When it's time to upgrade in place, I'll have to decide whether to switch to Debian proper and repeat my customization process, or just keep upgrading Spiral in place.  Given that I'm using the "pure Debian" repos, and Spiral's contribution to the distro was to enable proprietary blurbs, firmware, and codecs, I'm inclined to just keep upgrading Spiral in place.  There's NOTHING in Spiral that would indicate the distro is anything other than Debian, with proprietary implementations.  Literally...NOTHING to indicate otherwise:   jim@LenovoTC-m715q:~$ uname -a Linux LenovoTC-m715q 6.1.0-30-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.124-1 (2025-01-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux jim@LenovoTC-m715q:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Release: 12 Codename: bookworm jim@LenovoTC-m715q:~$  
    • raymac46
      This may be the answer. https://github.com/orgs/SpiralLinux/discussions/431  
    • abarbarian
      https://github.com/orgs/SpiralLinux/discussions?page=1   The forums seem pretty helpful. 😎
    • Hedon James
      Not sure exactly what you're describing is the problem, as the monitor turning off after inactivity is pretty standard stuff.  And it can be adjusted, or turned off, in Power Management settings of Control Center, using "idleness watcher".   If you're saying the monitor won't turn back on after keyboard/mouse use, I'd say that's a different symptom than "idleness watcher".  Can't help but wonder if your nVidia card is involved with the issue somehow.   Not sure why you can't install caffeine, as it's in Bookworm, Testing, and Unstable repos; but I also note that caffeine requires an app to be run fullscreen to prevent idle.  Maybe caffeinate is a suitable alternative option (and may be part of the caffeine package?).  I don't use either, so can't comment, but have heard of both: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/caffeine/caffeinate.1.en.html  
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