This sounds strange but reasonable  ... so checking for 'smapi'.

Result: Package 'tp-smapi-dkms' is installed. There is no reason why, but it is. This computer is a common ATX-PC, not a notebook.

And the liquorix kernel just compiles / works!
Thanks a lot.

EDIT: Knowing this makes your first reply even more understandable.

Thanks for the replies.
@JayneCobb: Welcome to the forum!
@steve_v: Nice explanation and thanks for the insight.

Still not sure how to proceed. Since I don't have a thinkpad, is the module needed at all? Maybe it's possible to disable the build of 'tp_smapi'.
Or more likely, just waiting and hoping for the next liquorix kernel; linux-6.16.1 is already released, with or without an updated driver.
I don't see me kernel-hacking these days.

I remember having QasMixer in my alsa-only-time. It was recommended from someone in this forum and worked good.

It works - shows alsa channels and also pipewire and the inactive hdmi-sound-devices. There are more Qas* sound tools.

Nice work and install tutorial!

Here is a short collection of incedences on my excalibur:
Compiling: pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0 throwed an error, solved by installing libgtk-3-dev .
Scraping: There were two or three instances of the script running, beside free cpu cores.
You mentioned "/var/lib/dpkg/status" and I thought this text file would be processed to get package related information.
dpkg was querried a lot (multiple ps ax in the terminal to kill time, e.g.: dpkg-query --search -- galculator.desktop )

#-#-#-#-#-#

Sorting:
A doubled "ParaView" entry cought my attention - see code section.

Guess is:
The list is sorted by the name of the *.desktop file. The shown "Application Name" is from the 'Name="Application Name"'-field.
*Highly accurate* entries like "Document Viewer" are existing too.
I'm missing a reference to the executed binary itself.
Or maybe executable name for sorting?

**imaginary screen shot of the program list**

(... "O" section here?!)
ParaView
QjackCtl
qpwgraph
samplev1
Wireshark
Mousepad
ParaView Cilent
(... more "P" entries)

**end of imaginary screen shot**

$ find | grep desktop$ | grep -i paraview
/usr/share/applications/org.paraview.ParaView.desktop
/usr/share/applications/paraview.desktop

$ diff  /usr/share/applications/paraview.desktop /usr/share/applications/org.paraview.ParaView.desktop
3,5d2
< Name=ParaView Client
< GenericName=Data Viewer
< Comment=ParaView allows viewing of large data sets
7c4,7
< Terminal=false
---
> Name=ParaView
> Comment=Parallel visualization application
> Exec=paraview %f
> TryExec=paraview
9,11c9,10
< MimeType=application/x-paraview;
< Categories=Education;Math;Science;
< Exec=paraview
---
> StartupWMClass=paraview
> Categories=Qt;Science;DataVisualization;

@Prowler_Gr  Thanks for the head up.

First reading this made me clone my debian-trixie-VM-with-sysvinit-enabled before trying apt-get udate; apt-get upgrade.
grub still boots /sbin/init as PID 1, so no harm done.

I'm not exactly sure what the removed part of code does - assumtion is the code enables a way to have sysvinit, systemd and upstart installed in parallel and select init via grub.

Moore likely the other way around: Ask an AI, then get your GPU toasted.

@Glen: Thanks for sharing. Appreciated.

I'm not having any problems running firefox and librewolf at the same time.

It's currently librewolf.appimage and firefox-esr from the excalibur repo. The appimage version should work on any devuan. I don't use librewolf from its debian repo for historical reasons (no sound on pure alsa).

As far as I understand the timer: The program 'certbot' will be executed either by systemd.timers (if systemd is running) or by cron (in case of devuan).
No need for adjustments. Or I'm just wrong.

It's kind of sick, that cron looks (or has to look) for systemd.timers, but anyway.

Dual-windowed file manger: mc / doublecmd
Image Viewer: This is a difficult one. Sometimes viewnior or nomacs (excalibur)
Screenshots: flameshot

It''s possibel to

apt-get install systemctl

Not sure whether this works for iscsi.

Sounds like a hardware problem.
I would pull out and insert again all RAM modus and PCI extension cards. This makes new electrical contact.
Since the PC has no external graphics card, this most likely means the RAM, as Pedro guessed before.