@ralph.ronnquist thanks, but iam a computer-type-do-first-read-later fail to find the proper setting, maybe i am just needing a bigger monitor;

@altoid,@all, thanks, it might be system-d related, but since i am not in the know of what it does (someone else stated here on this forum that i might be even not interested in getting to know how thinbgs function, an apparently old fproblem (of mine?) - devuan has function beautifully over the last past couple of years, sometimes better, sometimes worse, than previous favorites (still using ubuntu since it tend to function in more use-cases)

the real problem that provoked this "hijacking" of thread (but OP actually asked for a comment so ithought it might be just fine) is actually related to permission rights on NAS , which has not been cleared, and i tend to encounter on several distros, and i am not sure if am doing it just wrong or the problem rather lies with linux and the various file-manager it uses rather than with NAS software or vendor itself.

so pardon me if this went lenghty,
might just well open another thread for the underlying problem,
don't know if there will be a work-around for open-iscsi;

but with the debian instructions it fucntioned well on linux mint;
just made a portion (iscsi-lun) of 350 GB and copied the relevant ISO on it, and linux would now automount on booting the LUN as a separate partition and reading  from it with various programs tend to use (mkusb, balena-etcher, rpi-imager) throws off no error warning.

no very elegant solution, but the permission denied issue really got me annoyed; since it wont happend on macos or windows; but lately, it seems also on windows (server) there is similar issue encountered, so it make me think the issue could be with the NAS itself or maybe some sort of samba version thing problem, but it happen also with AFP, so it a bit noisy, sorry.

hello ,

i have usecase other way around

create SCSI - Lun on NAS and then mount it on Devuan, since there is most often "permission denied" when i try to access Iso files directly on  NAS via smb or afp (got to figure how to set access rights correctly, but it seems wide issue on NAS).

however when using "open-iscsi" there is error with devuan

https://wiki.debian.org/SAN/iSCSI/open-iscsi

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systemctl not found

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got any idea on how get this to function ion Devuan?

Thanks.

no , dont know about that,
but this certainly is not normal on thsi part here, cant be.

linux already has "volume" issue, and with alsa-only on this T60 with wheezy was getting "good" audio;
interestingly, when i re-installed later on again, the same sound was no longer achievable;
so either i suffer delusions, or the alsa was changed in the process or somehow, and it did no longer sound that clear.

either way, i experienced what the laptop is capable of in linux; so might aswell check back in time with debian wheezy;
this feature "low volume" is not seeked since have a bit of hearing condition to put it bluntly prefer a good volume , but certainly cannot bear distortions.

thanks for the posting, will check your manual asap.

EDIT:

it seems fixed now, maybe this command shared here fixed it

sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils force-reload

getting error but now alsa is back with "proper""volume"

the laptop has 2 entry "0:HDA Intel" "29:ThinkPad Console Audio Control" maybe before the re-load the number 29 was being used?
thanks alot!

@RedGreen925 tried also this script, but then it would not have any audio at all.

at first i was bit bothered since i did not have any controls in the task bar, only pavucontrol seemed fnction in the menu (next to alsamixer ofcourse);
but today strangely the audio switching applet is back in the taskbar for XFCE4; don't know if i installed something extra, probably, but glad it now function;
will report after attempted to use alsa only; for the moment the pipewire seems already enhancement.

this may be the case,
but it be a long time since the sound on linux so much irritated me;

most probably have a "faulty" setup;

for example, when i use program "quod libet" on devuan 5,

and have maximum volume on both system volume, and program volume, for quod libet, much songs do "overreact" and sound as if cranked up over 100%, very noisy;

the same , with same setup, same program, same 100% settings, same songs, does however not happen on ubuntu 24.04, which sounds clean(er).

the devuan 5.0 has been installed with default desktop (xfce4).
installed kernel is like 6.1.0.28;
don't know if pipewire or pulseaudio etc. is being used;

thanks.

@igorzwx,

at the moment bit wary to try too much since took me enough time to setup the linux box;

however, i am bit disappointed with the sound quality on linux for my new computer;
provided, the  onboard soundcodec is very basic (    Realtek ALC897 )
since was thinking to save money to later upgrade to a PciE Soundcard etc;

but on Windows the spotify could sound very  much better; when compared to Devuan or Ubuntu 24.ß4;
up until now was thinking that Linux has issues with soundquality mainly on Laptops (Yes!)
but now beginning to think that the sound maybe too thin on Desktop aswell;

hope to get better experience with a dedicated Soundcard ; altough it seems , Creative does not (provide driver)(support)( Linux?
it should still get better soundstage?
or should i use an USB DAC?`

thanks.

hello , i am still having this issue on excalibur with "Linux devuan 6.12.6-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.6-1 (2024-12-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
"

XFCE4 does wake from sleep on Devuan 5.0;
however upgrading to Devuan 6.0 does break it;

is there a solution , or do i just need another kernel?

i have installed just the standard ATI driver package

sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vulkan-drivers xserver-xorg-video-all

the solution provided by @tyrlak does not seem solve in my case, thanks.

EDIT: maybe the upgrade to Excalibur was not properly done, sine i am getting error like these

Error: The repository 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged testing-security Release' does not have a Release file.
Notice: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
Notice: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Error: The repository 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged testing-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
Notice: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
Notice: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

EDIT2:

during boot there are some status messages, the first one is

config failed: usb hub doesn't have any  ports

or similar.

my mainboard uses a ps/2 port where i have connected the keyboard?

jehjeh i did connect to internet already ,
my first laptop had already modem, plus i got an isdn card like such one
https://docs.rs-online.com/04a6/0900766b8002b85f.pdf

to be honest, ISDN was great qualitY;
then when ADSL came along, we switched, and now i am kinda mssing it , on the phone side:)

lets see what 2025 brings along!
happy computing!

oh thanks,

i tried the older driver (PC FAX1)

which does indeed install with the help of lsb-compat which has been kindly provided by debian-archive

http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/m … _amd64.deb

afterwards,

PC-FAX (old version)

does install and need no "systemctl"

but could be that in future version this solution no longer works since cups is giving some message that in future CUPS some feature may be disabled or similar.

https://ibb.co/phdpgRb

(link to old fax driver)
https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/0 … &OSC=LX&DL

(manual for epson fax driver 1)
http://download.ebz.epson.net/man/linux/pc-fax_e.html

thank you,

its good to have it installed, am still using phone at home, glad if i might use it sometime;

will resort to manual install:

1. data.tar.gz > contents have installed in the respective directories "/usr/share/cups/model/Epson" and "/opt/epson/epson-pc-fax2/
2. control.tar.gz > do i need to use those aswell? they are shell scripts named "postinst" "postrm" "prerm" > probably those are needed for the install procedure, so most probably the manual install is done then by moving the above folders.

EDIT: it seems the manual copying did not suffice, still getting error after reboot

"missing printer driver" > "no printer driver for Epson ET-5170 Series FAX"

https://ibb.co/wpR5f8p

thank you very much for kind help,

maybe Epson has made an error with this package, don't know, there is still error
after
installing "systemctl"

Setting up epson-pc-fax2 (1.0.0) ...
/usr/bin/systemctl:1541: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  expanded = re.sub("[$](\w+)", lambda m: get_env1(m), cmd.replace("\\\n",""))
/usr/bin/systemctl:1543: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  new_text = re.sub("[$][{](\w+)[}]", lambda m: get_env2(m), expanded)
/usr/bin/systemctl:1628: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  cmd3 = re.sub("[$](\w+)", lambda m: get_env1(m), cmd2)
/usr/bin/systemctl:1631: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  newcmd += [ re.sub("[$][{](\w+)[}]", lambda m: get_env2(m), part) ]
dpkg: error processing package epson-pc-fax2 (--install):
 installed epson-pc-fax2 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 epson-pc-fax2