I hope golinux puts as much energy as possible into the forum these days, as golinux is quite attentive, which is warming.

f9 & f10 the bios for a start,
if the hardware is bleeding edge, amongst other ideas, the task is to identify i.e., what firmware you need.
you could spin the latest MX Linux which is just out and fullfat firmware.
more /var/log/dmesg or syslog or whatever

grub is the greatest colossal joke, an unprecedented security catastrophe, and fundamentally a supremely pure definition of a piece of shit.
continue without bootloader, boot with refindflashdrive dot zip, or grub4dos, and install refind if you fancy.
If you're not EFI, use Limine, and check wizard Barry Kauler at easyos for intel.

Tue 15 Aug 2023, just coming up to 2 PM UTC.
The homepage has gone Daedalus 5.0 current stable release.
I like the subtle changes in colours very much indeed.
Will be splendid to see Devuan top of the page on Distrowatch.
'Sunshine on a rainy day,' here in Ungreat Britain.
What's new it says,
Rootless startx uses libseat1
is that just for a Display Manager,
in the past I found a quite small 'script,' which did auto login and startx without a Display Manager.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanc … leshooting

Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS
On Intel Cannon Lake (eg. HP ZBook 15 G6), the integrated sound chipset requires ALSA firmware, and the following kernel module parameters are required:

options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-amic enable=yes

That should enable both sound and microphone.

Useful,

https://thesofproject.github.io/latest/ … ction.html

Every time I create a change I run alsamixer --view all and it will be different

On my BMAX B1 Plus mini-pc which has a pig codec es8336, I am trying to get sound line-out and HDMI.

My next step is to install pavucontrol & pulseaudio, and see what I am offered,
then /etc/modprobe.d/snd.conf options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=3
and see what I am offered.
dsp_driver=1 & dsp_driver=2 terminally breaks sound.

It's amazing how computers are like cars in many ways, you look at them under a 40X microscope and they're full of crap & flux and that, like under the bonnet (hood,) another, 'chipset' change, reminds me of changing a wheel bearing and in the end I did it in the car parts car park because there was like five variants.
And here I am, twenty-five years later, clean install Windows 98SE and what's the first thing to do, see if the piece of shit sound is working.
And we've had HDMI for like twenty years plug and play and we pay hard earned money for this shit.
I guess without SOF we'd certainly be up shit creek without a paddle.
IMO options snd-hda-intel model=whatever is questionable pissing in the wind.

What I do, maybe useful.
Twenty-five years of using computers, I do not trust Government Corporation thieving my privacy.
I don't use Windows online.
I only do X online in a live distro.
Knoppix, SysRescCd, Damn Small Linux, TinyCoreLinux, Sidux|Aptosid, Puppy, EasyOS, etc.
Of course now I do a bespoke not kitchen sink fsmithred snapshot, marvellous!
Display Managers have their uses but generally are problematic.
apt-get --no-install-recommends prevents headaches.
How I startx without fail.
I do a very frowned upon 'hairy shirt' technique in my always pristine boot=live toram.
apt-get install xserver-xorg-legacy
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
allowed_users=anybody
needs_root_rights=yes

xinit is happy and perhaps a Display Manager also.
Bring on the flames!
Also xserver-xorg-input-evdev (terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp) xserver-xorg-input-libinput (Synaptics is shady.)

There's too many bloody sound modules running, thanks to the western lands binary blob wankers, stifling evolution, (screwing with nature!) the coming decades, especially China and India, will stanley knife that holding back open-source.
The kernel is a tiny kernel, wrapped up in a whopping pile of shit, pathetic.

I do not understand how to display an image on this forum.
Images are 2048x1536.

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If the Windows GUI defrag is broken/missing, defrag in Windows Command Prompt.
In theory, Windows defrag tools will not hurt an SSD.
The above images show Devuan Daedalus RC8 netinstall on a Asus E203N laptop, common Intel N3350, SSD 64GB mmcblk0 surface mount.

Born 1967 and missed computer studies by one year, had to learn digital photography, 1998 got a 233MHz Toshiba laptop, partitioned with SystemRescueCd and put Red Hat 6 on it, Fedora came, I went to Debian. Kitchen sink Knoppix was in my toolkit, also Robert Shingledecker is a hero, and Puppy Linux to easyos. cdc-acm USB GPRS was my first mountain to learn, then bluetooth GPRS.
Sometimes on the news you can see in a warzone some state sponsored whackos blowing the front off a hotel, git them journalists.
Alas I got bored of loonies trying to chop my head off.
A decade ago was DSLR and netbook and I could GPRS bluetooth a 3G phone on the fly in Sidux/Aptosid.
When that kit got robbed I got an armoured compact (camera,) and my first Android, Huawei, QWERTY.
jackpal terminal console, Xavier Gouchet Ted text processor, ffmpeg4android, Pixlr (2.6) Stay Alive! (display,) CryptIt blowfish cipher.
Moving too fast or dug in too deep, more. Bosnia was film and chemicals and facsimile and dish. Big bucks.
Anyway Klaus Kalder at easyos stimulation moved on to embedded, fair enough.
Obviously MX Linux is the contemporaneous kitchen sink, but I think antiX is the champ, again, one director, one man.
The Greek State understands that the future is open-source, it's not my bias because I am British and Greek.
News page on antixlinux dot com Bookworm beta June 11, 2023, runit & sysvinit.

apt-get --no-install-recommends install
is what I've learned recently

I also dpkg --force-all -P elogind libelogind0 libpam-elogind libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome
and then I apt-get download or dpkg -i libsystemd0
and it ain't broke at all whatsoever.