Worked on my dell desktop optiplex 990 bare metal. Minimal install.Same as fsmithred on missing firmware request but wireless connection worked so firmware is present. At the beginning it says beowulf but it is indeed chimaera installed. For my purposes it is useful now-very nice.

Many pleasant tomorrows and a happy today.

@hoas, ty just what I needed to remove slim and skip extra "startx command". (with devuan)Now how about freebsd and alpine if I
want your efforts rather then my own? Seriously, thanks.

workarounds

Under provides for alsa-utils is audio-mixer. I believe that is alsamixer since the command alsamixer in terminal works fine for me. All I recall installing is alsa-utils and the dependencies that came with it.
So alsamixer-gui is by choice I believe.

Lol,fun video and a learning opportunity.(for me at least) My dear departed Father would tell a particularly stupid joke and follow with the
words "Laugh or I'll tell it again!". I find it a necessity to laugh at my own jokes.

Nice work! I think two colors to bring out logo is a good idea. No experience 3d printing on my side. Perhaps a (for instance) gold paint in
logo could be used with black badge material easier then color swapped layers? Main point, good job.

Wow. You are not lazy miyo. A lot went into your i3/beowulf work. I have been very happy with i3/pcmanfm/ascii and then beowulf upgrade for some time now. I figured I could get some new info from your efforts and I have already. Many Thanks.

You are in the right place. I think you will find Devuan to be a simple changeover. Someone more technical may
provide more info. welcome.
edit:
this might be useful https://pkginfo.devuan.org/

I guess being grateful for Devuan goes out the window if they fall prey to human error?

If random it could possibly be a hardware problem? You could try booting from a live distro of another type and see if sound functions normally. That would rule out hardware I believe. Good luck.

I like it a lot! (and I learned a bit about cinnabar) Well done!