Thank you very much for the quick answers.
Devuan 5 installation
1)
On intel i5 11th generation machine installation runs without problems except sound.
pavucontrol says:
virtual output device : dummy output  (but no sound, vlc)
Hardware output device: no output device available.
lspci | grep -i audio: finds Tiger Lake Sound System blabla

Alsa on boot with dmesg |egrep -i "alsa | snd :
[    1.550730] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[    1.550951] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SOF driver

and kernel modules loaded by Alsa with lsmod | grep "^snd" | cut -d " " -f 1 :
  snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_soc_dmic
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_sof_pci
snd_sof_xtensa_dsp
snd_sof
snd_sof_utils
snd_soc_hdac_hda
snd_hda_ext_core
snd_soc_acpi_intel_match
snd_soc_acpi
snd_soc_core
snd_compress
snd_hda_intel
snd_intel_dspcfg
snd_intel_sdw_acpi
snd_hda_codec
snd_hda_core
snd_hwdep
snd_pcm
snd_timer
snd

On Debian 12 sound worksfine.

2)
On intel i5 7th generation machine:
I think delgado is right with his assumption and the nvme has a sata  interface, laptop is about 7 years old. Model name is HFS128210A

Again, Debian 12 has no problem with naming, nor does Devuan 2, 3, 4.
I use Devuan since Vs 1 on that laptop

Best regards hellou