Which image sdid you reflash for Crimson? I also installed one on my Librem 5(Crimson shows on the os details), but the apt update breaks thee whole os thing after a reboot. I bascially can’t use it if I want to do an update.
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I think this was the one I reflashed, but then the update from atp or the pureos store will break the system if I reboot. During the reboot, it is a black screen. If I don’t update, it is usable to some degree.
https://oper.io/?p=librem5:crimson-daily-driver
I followed this article since the author keeps updating it. He found two libraries break the os after updating the system using apt update. I used his scripts, after updating it becomes the os: Landing, it can reboot but most of the softwares becomes usable. Did you guys do the system update after flashing to the crimson? Thanks.
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Yes, but breakage after updating is expected now due to recent ongoing Crimson development.
So if we want to use crimson, we don’t update the system for now?
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Correct, alternatively you can use Mobian (stable):
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Thanks. Is it the same step as we flash the Crimson via the L5 flash script? Or I might need to read the Mobian doc I guess.
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Entirely different steps, which include using Jumpdrive.
Got it. I will stay with pmos and pureos for now. Might test on crimson weekly I guess. Thanks.
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Can someone please help me i just updated my phone. And now i can pass the disk encryption screen. It wont even let me input the password at all. Also i have been stuck on benzytium for 2 years. How do i upgrade to crimson?
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has anyone tried this one yet? difference between the crimson image that we flashed from the landing? this one can now officially flash from the librem 5 flash script for crimson.
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You can edit /etc/apt/sources.list before doing anything on your fresh crimson install.
#deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos landing main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-security main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-updates main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-updates-proposed main
run:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
and reboot it works and you stay on crimson.
Next, if you want to go for landing:
With that new post: Crimson Daily Driver Part 3 (the author doesn’t recommend that)
- uncomment landing in sources.list
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri=22.3.6-1+deb12u1 libseat1=0.7.0-6sudo apt-mark hold libseat1 libgl1-mesa-dri- check with
apt-mark showhold - apt upgrade
I exclude landing after this again until Librem5: Crimson Daily Driver updates his experience.
And there is also an apt-mark unhold command for the future (or after removing landing again).
But with landing you end up at dawn instead of crimson.
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Nice you did it!
I love crimson right now. The apps are fast and up to date. The power last longer. I use suspend after X seconds and suspend on purpose by Mobil-Settings/Shutdown-Button.
Good job on everyone who take progress on Apps and Gnome for Mobile.
Love it, its like a howl new device. Just like Linux and open source!
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Why did you never use it on Byzantium?
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I found a post where it is claimed that display scaling on 100% instead of 200% uses less system resources.
Can you confirm or deny?
I only use Librem 5 with that setting and big font.
It feels better, but I don’t know if there is a real difference.
Also firefox and other apps are somehow better to use for me.
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No, it’s not true. Fractional scales such as 150% may consume more resources than integer ones when using apps that don’t support them natively, but there won’t be any significant difference between 100% and 200% unless there’s some nasty bug hiding somewhere 
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I tried this (edited all sources lines to dawn) but dist-upgrade didn’t like it. Some kind of dependency issue:
librem5-gnome : Depends: gnome-contacts but it is not going to be installed
just a plain upgrade did want to upgrade a lot of packages, but it also held back a lot of packages, of which were all the important ones (phosh, gnome, calls, chatty,…) so I didn’t see the point in doing it.
I changed back to crimson for the time being until it’s possible to cleanly dist-upgrade to landing (dawn).
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I can confirm. I used to use 150% because I thought it was a happy medium between 200% and 100% but it was sluggish, so I went to 100% and muddled around with font scales and such and was much happier for it. 200% was just to large, and I’m still in denial about my ageing eyesight.
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