Tried that, no effect. Printing works.

The intention is not to switch power off the PC after putting it to sleep. Its just to enable some sort of power saving when I am off of my PC during the day. I switch off anyhow during the night.

Well, my experience during the past days is that mostly its working fine. Also the backports kernel 6.4 installed today seems to work.

Just had an issue once some days ago that I could not update web page in Firefox any more. A reboot was required to fix.

For me its solved.

Next time one problem per post please, makes answering and follow up much easier.

To the keyboard issue: I never cared for any keyboard model. Locale and keyboard layout are usually defined during setup, im my case Germany/German. Maybe you take a read into the Ubuntu wiki, or search the web a bit for the keywords "linux configure locale" and "linux configure keyboard".

What I haven't seen is a exact description of your problem, so a specific answer isn't possible.

My locale shows:

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

In /etc/default/keyboard I find:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

That works for me.

Maybe you tell as a bit more about the problem? What is your locale? Which keyboard settings are used? What does not work?

Virtualbox and its packages do not depend on systemd, so the original Debian files are passed through to ../merged into Devuan (like so many others).

If you don't like this there are two other ways to install VBox.

My preferred method is to load the deb from the Virtualbox website, copy it to /tmp and to install this via dpkg -i.

The other way is described on the Virtualbox website: you add a line into the sources.list and do an install with apt/apt-get/aptitude.

Because they are not enumerated in any order, but a request is sent out by the kernel and then the first one answering is served first. And due to slight changes in timing the order is sort of by chance.

Daedalus is meant to be working fine with the 6.1 kernel. It was released with that. I have several installations working fine with it.

I guess you have 3 different topics to solve, and they aren't kernel related. You will need to install one or the other additional package. Debian/Devuan are a warehouse which you need to shop for the right software, and no one-fits-all suit like Mint.

I am no expert for bluetooth, don't ask me.

For Audio, I would suggest to search the forum for pipewire instructions. I have used them to get my laptop to play music with Audacious. 

For printing, you need cups. The rest depends strongly on the printer itself, and if the manufacturer supplies a printer driver package or a ppd. You may need to tell us which brand and model you want to install.

The Daedalus 5.0.0 netinstall does not start also from the Ventoj stick on my X570/Ryzen 5900X system. Same "_" appears, the PC is locked. Hard reset resolves.

Looks like there is an incompatibility between the Ventoj environment and the official installer. An old preview from a year ago did start ok.

Update: when you just do an cli install without any DE, desktop-base isn't installed, and no Sapphire theme. Then also the them line is omitted in /etc/default/grub.

Some news: checked the SHA256 checksum of the iso on the Ventoj stick and found it was different from the one in my Download folder.

Well, replaced the file on the stick and made sure it had the same checksum as listed on the Devuan download page, now it is correct.

Trying to boot from that iso ends up in the "_", the computer seems to be locked. NUM is on as set in the bios, but no reaction on a keystroke. Also no way to open a console. Only way out is power off/on or hard reset. So now same behaviour as the two RC versions I tested.

Strangely enough, the 6.1.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.38-4 (2023-08-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux is the up-to-date default kernel.

@Jorge: you might try one of the earlier 6.1 kernels.

Maybe just the package firmware-amd-graphics is missing. The mean thing is that since Bookworm the non free firmware has moved to a new sub-repo non-free-firmware. Daedalus had to follow Debian.

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware

You need to add this to your sources.list. Give it a try.