Hello:

Exactly ...
That is what keps your sound controller from going to sleep, the pop being caused by the controller waking up, so to speak.
Depending on your hardware, it can get to be quite annoyning.

I don't think the options snd_hda_intel index=1,0 line is related to the pop.
It is probably related to the contents of /proc/asound/cards and /proc/asound/modules.

In my case:

~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel   ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
               HDA Intel at 0xf5ff8000 irq 35
 1 [Webcam  ]: USB-Audio - Genius Webcam
               KYE Systems corp. Genius Webcam at usb-0000:00:1d.7-2, high speed
~$

~$ cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel   <- Ultra 24 WS on board sound system
 1 snd_usb_audio   <- Genius Webcam microphone
~$ 

Best,

A.

Hello:

Yes, you are quite right.

But throttling is a feature to protect the CPU from overheating and (eventually) blowing.

So (IMO) throttling must be avoided and that's what a heatsink is for.

In my 3B+ (now unused, a huge dissapointment) the adding of a heatsink to the chip without the speader made an important difference, at least in the comprehensive tests I ran at the time.

Edit: this video may be of use to you, if not there are others.

As always, YMMV.

Best,

A.

Hello:

You're welcome.

Don't miss this part:

Pity it is a systemd distribution.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Maybe no even harm, obvious or not.
But *something* left behind that could/may, in conjunction with something else, bring up a problem or a situation that could bring up a problem.

Good idea ...
Please keep us posted.

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

configHello:

Not here:

~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 5.10.0-0.deb10.16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 (2022-07-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
~$ 

There is no .cache in my /.
All of them live in the /home/user dir.

And this is all the pulse I have:

~$ apt list | grep installed | grep -i pulse*
--- snip ---
debian-pulseaudio-config-override/oldstable,oldstable,now 1.0 all [installed,automatic]
libpulse0/oldstable,now 12.2-4+deb10u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libpulse0/oldstable,now 12.2-4+deb10u1 i386 [installed,automatic]
~$ 

Maybe something else is doing that?

Best,

A.

Hello:

... as systemd user-units become more popular. continues to extend its tentacles further and further into Linux.   <--- reads better now, I think.

Not only on chimaera.

I run Devuan Beowulf with a backported kernel.
I suspect it was there since ascii but can't confirm.

So I have seen.

Probably to be reported to Debian.
Don't think it's a Devuan thing, but ...

... if that is so, it could/may be due to an incomplete/faulty sanitisation of the pulseaudio package by the Devuan devs.

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Ah ...

Could well be.
No matter, quite easy to fix.

First this:

# apt purge pulseaudio && apt autoclean && apt autoremove

And then this.

Best,

A.

Edit:
Out or curiosity (I purged pulseaudio two/three years ago) I went to see what was up in my / dir.

Seems that purging pulseaudio is not enough: I found  /.config/pulse and within it, two files.

One was a 26a708d3d7dc6778fc6ff9f55921b024-runtime file and the other was a cookie file and they were not size nought.

So I left the /.config dir (don't know if it is needed), but eliminated its contents.

Hello:

This has been so since the Beowulf release:

Could this be a bug?

The grub installer seems to ignore the new su behaviour as described in https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf … _notes.txt.

Not running an efi box, so can't say much more about this.

Best,

A.

Hello:

LibreWolf is not in the Debian repositories and as a direct consequence, you will not find it in the Devuan repositories.

Now ...
Why is it not in the Debian repository?

No idea ...
Maybe for the same reason a number of other distributions don't don't have it in theirs.

But I don't know what that reason is.

Best,

A.

Hello:

I have not been into laptops/portables for for over 15 years now.
For me, they ended up being rather expensive propositions with a very limited lifespan and nought repair possibilities.
ie: in comparison to all other hardware I have owned.

That's what I did for many years till I purchased the box I have now and upgraded it to its full potential.
It's a Sun Microsystems Ultra 24 WS purchased in late 2015, second hand with ~ 4 years' use but in mint condition.

Like you point out, this is a WinTel thing, which obviously includes AMD and it will continue as it has been a very profitable business model for all involved.

The thing is that I don't see where to look for an aternative board/processor for this nice box.
And as the article I linked to makes blindingly obvious, the systemd virus is expanding more and more each day.

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.