thank you!  I did not see that.   devuan:'devuan' worked to ssh in.  Messing around with it.

initial boot up

── SYSTEM
Processor:   ARMv7Processorrev4(v7l) @ 1400MHz 35°C
Frequency:   1400MHz
Online:      0-3
Governor:    performance
Memory:      921M 94M
Entropy:     256
Uptime:      15:58:33 up 1 min, 0 users, load average: 0.98, 0.37, 0.13

To configure your Raspberry Pi run 'menu-config'

-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory

fyi
ssh root@<ipaddress>
password is not "toor" - at least on the image I am trying

I recently ran into sound issues on my humble desktop (HP Prodesk 400 G3 mini).   I believe some of the software I installed had pulseaudio dependencies and I was conflicting with pipewrire and pulse audio.  i am guessing, not a developer and may be incorrect - so corrections are welcomed.

Borrowing from Kappa above here is what fixed it for me, and essentially only going to pulse audio.  basiclly purged everythign and reinstalled pulseaudio.  On reboot set the mixer, saved - next reboot it worked.

#purged everything
sudo apt-get purge wireplumber pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pipewire pipewire-bin pipewire-pulse
#re-installed pulseaudio
sudo apt install wireplumber pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pipewire pipewire-bin pipewire-pulse

System
OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) x86_64
Host: HP ProDesk 400 G3 DM
Kernel: Linux 6.12.96+deb13-amd64
DE: Xfce4 4.20
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500T (4) @ 3.30 GHz

system has a horrible internal single speaker; Sound bar plugged into the headphone jack for speakers

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20632 Analog [CX20632 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I tried the Vandefoul Cinnamon download (21 March 2026).  LUKS install is broken and dumps me at initramfs....Gate it a shot but installed Devuan and just moved on (with LUKS and Cinnamon desktop).

https://github.com/sys-fs/mullvad-repack

is working correctly now.   Compiled and running

I spoke too soon.   The script above compiled, however mullvad can not connect.   it was pointed out to me on IRC Channel this git repo
https://github.com/sys-fs/mullvad-repack

this script does run but.... there are errors i am unable to get rid of in apt.  I am not sure exactly how to correct.   i have the output below.   If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.

Thank you

 sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up mullvad-vpn (2026.1) ...
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `mullvad-daemon' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (1 2 3 4 5) of script `mullvad-daemon' overrides LSB defaults (1).
Starting Mullvad VPN daemon: mullvad-daemon.
update-rc.d: error: initscript does not exist: /etc/init.d/mullvad-early-boot-blocking
dpkg: error processing package mullvad-vpn (--configure):
 installed mullvad-vpn package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mullvad-vpn