I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining available
versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it's pretty simple
from shell prompt to get a list of packages available in currently configured repos,
one line each, including package name with version. I have yet to find an equivalent
I can rely on using dpkg* or apt*. Attempts either produce multiple lines per package,
scrolling off screen, or results in only one package sans version, or results in
several packages, but all sans a version.

The online option https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages omits old-stable. Is there
an alternative that does not?

What's the (best?) way to determine which kernel(s) are available from which source(s) when full-upgrade stops providing new kernels? The ultimate question:

Is my GPU supposed to be supported by a current Bullseye kernel?

Current situation (in ~date order):

i5-11400 CPU/GPU was "born" 2021Q1 w/ RocketLake-S GT1 UHD Graphics 730 8086:4c8b graphics

Bullseye was released 2021-08-14, roughly 6 months later, with 5.10 kernel.

Latest available backport kernel: bullseye-backports 6.1.90-1 from 2024-05 works as expected.
<https://packages.debian.org/bullseye-backports/kernel/linux-image-6.1.0-0.deb11.21-amd64>

Current Bullseye kernel (as on kernel.org) 5.10.234-1 boots, but acts as though it
lacks needed GPU support:
(limited to VESA/FBDEV 1024x738)
# dmesg | grep aile
# uname -a
Linux ab560 5.10.0-34-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.234-1 (2025-02-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux
~# grep EE Xorg.0.log
[ 2.471] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 2.471] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 2.472] (EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device
[ 2.472] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 2.472] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
# dpkg-query -W *mwar*
firmware-intel-sound 20210315-3
firmware-linux-free 20200122-1
# lsmod | sort | egrep 'xe|i915|video|vga'
cec 61440 2 drm_kms_helper,i915
drm 634880 2 drm_kms_helper,i915
drm_kms_helper 278528 1 i915
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 i915
i915 2777088 0
video 65536 2 asus_wmi,i915

# uname -r
6.1.0-0.deb11.21-amd64
# lsmod | sort | egrep 'xe|i915|video|vga'
cec 61440 2 drm_display_helper,i915
drm 614400 7 drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper,drm_buddy,i915,ttm
drm_buddy 20480 1 i915
drm_display_helper 180224 1 i915
drm_kms_helper 204800 2 drm_display_helper,i915
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 i915
i915 3063808 4
ttm 94208 1 i915
video 65536 2 asus_wmi,i915
wmi 32768 3 video,asus_wmi,wmi_bmof
#

From lsmod output, it seems obvious something is missing by using the 5.10 kernel.

Is a solution supposed to exist? Am I off base thinking this is about the kernel
rather than something else?

Bookworm works as expected on same PC, as does Trixie. Upgrading to Bookworm can't
solve the current issue: need to test from within suitably running Bullseye X session, not stuck in fallback driver's 1024x768.
--
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based on faith, not based on science.

Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata

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On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 01:12:29 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:

songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400):

Felix Miata wrote:

I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining available
versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it's pretty simple
from shell prompt to get a list of packages available in currently configured repos,
one line each, including package name with version. I have yet to find an equivalent

...

i'm not able to dig into this further (way behind on this list)
but rmadison works ok for something like that:

...
root(5)~# rmadison linux-image-amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 4.19+105+deb10u16 | oldoldstable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 | buster-backports | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.223-1 | oldstable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.90-1~bpo11+1 | bullseye-backports | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.124-1 | stable-updates | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.129-1 | stable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 | stable-backports | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.17-1 | testing | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | unstable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.7-1~exp1 | experimental | amd64

Looks perfect, but for 43 things:
# rmadison linux-image
Command 'rmadison' not found, but can be installed with:
apt install devscripts
# apt-get install devscripts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:

[ … ]

0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,993 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
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I would recommend that you add --no-install-recommends to your command
line. The difference here is dramatic:

apt-get install devscripts
0 upgraded, 149 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

apt-get --no-install-recommends install devscripts
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 08:48:32 (-0400), songbird wrote:

oh, well, ok, i have perl installed for other programs already.
when i did install it there wasn't that much it brought in.

I have perl installed but not as a language I program in. Yet
installing it didn't bring in all this stuff:

libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl
libalgorithm-merge-perl libaliased-perl libarchive-cpio-perl
libarchive-zip-perl libarray-intspan-perl libcapture-tiny-perl
libclass-inspector-perl libconfig-tiny-perl libconst-fast-perl
libcontextual-return-perl libconvert-binhex-perl libdata-dpath-perl
libdata-messagepack-perl libdata-validate-domain-perl
libdebhelper-perl libdevel-size-perl libdistro-info-perl
libemail-address-xs-perl libfile-chdir-perl libfile-find-rule-perl
libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl libfont-ttf-perl
libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl libgit-wrapper-perl
libgitlab-api-v4-perl libhash-fieldhash-perl
libhtml-html5-entities-perl libhttp-tiny-multipart-perl
libio-prompter-perl libio-sessiondata-perl libio-string-perl
libipc-run3-perl libiterator-perl libiterator-util-perl
libjson-maybexs-perl libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl
liblist-compare-perl liblist-someutils-perl
liblist-someutils-xs-perl liblist-utilsby-perl
liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl liblog-any-perl libmime-tools-perl
libmoox-aliases-perl libmoox-struct-perl libmouse-perl
libnet-domain-tld-perl libnumber-compare-perl libnumber-range-perl
libobject-id-perl libossp-uuid-perl libparams-validate-perl
libpath-iterator-rule-perl libpath-tiny-perl libperlio-gzip-perl
libpod-constants-perl libre-engine-re2-perl
libregexp-pattern-license-perl libregexp-pattern-perl
libsereal-decoder-perl libsereal-encoder-perl libsoap-lite-perl
libsort-key-perl libsort-versions-perl libstring-copyright-perl
libstring-escape-perl libstring-shellquote-perl libsub-override-perl
libsys-cpuaffinity-perl libtask-weaken-perl libtext-glob-perl
libtext-levenshteinxs-perl libtext-markdown-discount-perl
libtext-xslate-perl libtime-moment-perl libtype-tiny-perl
libtype-tiny-xs-perl libtypes-serialiser-perl libunicode-utf8-perl
libwant-perl libxmlrpc-lite-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl

~# rmadison linux-image-amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 4.19+105+deb10u16 | oldoldstable | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 | buster-backports | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.223-1 | oldstable | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.90-1~bpo11+1 | bullseye-backports | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.124-1 | stable-updates | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.129-1 | stable | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 | stable-backports | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | testing | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | unstable | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | buildd-experimental | amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | experimental | amd64
~#

Works ok.

Cheers,
David.

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