having one ig and several small defects ,
among those sometime lccking patience ,
let zou gifure out if it  helped with solving the issue or rather averted a proper soltuion.

thank you, have re-installed- , this time sans-ventoy, now now longer seg-fault?. (maybe it had to do since was installing it with "secure-boot" enacted).

maybe you can give command to re-set alsa completely including configuration files?

there is error-msg during boot "alsactl"  ---- "operation not premitted" or similar  - so ideally it should download all packages needed for proper alsa-playback and setup again, and in the process also delete/restore the configuration files , thank you.

thank you, it hasn't resolved yet.

there must be more going on ¸~ since i noticed the older laptop is booting Devuan 7 faster than the 2 year old desktop PC (with whistles&bells) ~ Deskop booting hangs around also at "CUPS" , not sure whats going on, but instead of re-applying Devuan fresh, this time i'd rather like to find out.

have similar issue with kvme with 4 usb ~ on newer devices like risc-v or raspberry tipes it may fail to enter properly the keystroke or miss completely; also i noticed, that not all keyboard are equally ideal for use with with kvm, some seem not supported at atll.
the vendor support said i should switch to anoterh "mode" > sun os/2 or similar, but the keystroke to achieve it are somewhat difficult or elusive, or maybe just did not understand it properly (could also be bit faulty since second hand-warehouse  buy). otherwise, very pleased with the item, just hoped it could offer also ps/2 functionality next to usb ~ but that maybe be considerable more expensive.

edit: just checked with the support podf:

• Sun / Mac keyboard support and emulation*
Firmware upgradable
* 1. PC keyboard combinations emulate Sun / Mac keyboards
2. Sun / Mac keyboards only work with their own computers

it is somewhat solved by shutting "thunderbird", afterwards it closed the session immeditaely and shutdown correctly.

not sure what to make of it, it seems the email program inhibiting shutdown command.

one possible solution for wifi-issues can be to get an ethernet cable;
works most of the times, sometimes it needs addtional gear (or software, packages, patientce).

in my view to company is over-evaluated;

i like ATI and consider them the superior designs (but am not real knowledgeeable in the technical side of things), but have to agree that nvidia has some excellent "benchmarks" and they seem to command the market for some time now; lets see how long that will last.

for linux users, overall, i still prefer the AMD cards, hands down.
(might be biased since i tend to buy "small").
unwarranted comment.

@Calamity, have you ever tried Rassoul Clay? Honestly, it's the best treatment!
   just wished sometimes it could make the ahair grow back.
(minimalistic comment)

not to be chming out of tune, but be glad if the KDE on X11 or plasma could be enhanced ~
not sure if it is related to KDE, but the main computer was freezing on me twice lately (admittedly running Boinc and several programs at the same time) ~ it quite never happened to me in the same fashion otherwise (still, had other problems, though, mostly with Caja or FileManagers etc.)
This on fresh installation of Devuan Excalibur 6 KDE on X11; not sure what to make out of it, but for the moment i have switched to a minor partition running XFCE and no issues since (besides the Thunderbird getting really slow / unresponsive at times in unified folder view, but that may be related to one specific account).