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Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 2:51 pm**

More Info:

I have both MX-Snapshots & Timeshift-Snapshots that I could try to revert to...

Or, maybe it's not worth the risk and effort, as the "mediatek" stuff may not impact me...

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 2:59 pm**

I gave you the package to reinstall in a post above. without ahs repo enabled, firmware-mediatek will never be found, as its not in debian stable. it makes no difference what kernel you install, because the package just won't be available.

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sudo apt install --reinstall firmware-misc-nonfree

is the package where the mediatek firmware lives on debian stable.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 3:06 pm**

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 2:59 pm I gave you the package to reinstall in a post above. without ahs repo enabled, firmware-mediatek will never be found, as its not in debian stable. it makes no difference what kernel you install, because the package just won't be available.
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sudo apt install --reinstall firmware-misc-nonfree
is the package where the mediatek firmware lives on debian stable.

Thanks, but I tried that before, and said that I get this message:

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Reinstallation of firmware-misc-nonfree is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.

Just re-tried (after the new kernel), and got the same error message.

EDIT:

Here's my earlier message:

viewtopic.php?p=819963#p819963

Basically, the same, except that full output includes this:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done

But then ends with this:

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Reinstallation of firmware-misc-nonfree is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 3:20 pm**

please provide

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apt policy mx-debian-firmware

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 3:23 pm**

@operadude sorry I missed that earlier post.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 3:23 pm**

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 3:20 pm please provide
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apt policy mx-debian-firmware

OK. Here it is:

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opera-dude@GA-H270-HD3:~
$ apt policy mx-debian-firmware
mx-debian-firmware:
  Installed: 23.03.01mx23
  Candidate: 23.03.01mx23
  Version table:
 *** 23.03.01mx23 500
        500 https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bookworm/non-free amd64 Packages
        500 https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bookworm/non-free i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 3:31 pm**

and

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apt policy firmware-misc-nonfree

FWIW, I get

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apt policy firmware-misc-nonfree 
firmware-misc-nonfree:
  Installed: 20230210-5
  Candidate: 20230210-5
  Version table:
 *** 20230210-5 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 3:35 pm**

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 3:31 pm and

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apt policy firmware-misc-nonfree

FWIW, I get

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apt policy firmware-misc-nonfree 
firmware-misc-nonfree:
  Installed: 20230210-5
  Candidate: 20230210-5
  Version table:
 *** 20230210-5 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

OK, here's what I get:

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opera-dude@GA-H270-HD3:~
$ apt policy firmware-misc-nonfree
firmware-misc-nonfree:
  Installed: 20230515-2~mx23ahs
  Candidate: 20230515-2~mx23ahs
  Version table:
 *** 20230515-2~mx23ahs 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     20230210-5 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware i386 Packages
opera-dude@GA-H270-HD3:~
$

Is AHS the problem for me?

I thought I DON'T have AHS

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 4:11 pm**

Will have to follow-up tomorrow.

Thanks D.O. & Stevo for all your help so far !

Going down for system halt...now.

Posted: **Wed May 21, 2025 4:41 pm**

yes and no.

enable ahs repo.

then

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sudo apt update && sudo apt install firmware-mediatek

should work.

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