Offtopic: Localized system messages are horrible for troubleshooting. My 5 word spanish knowledge doesn't give me the slightest clue of what's going on.

Don't think thats the problem. I've just checked my initrd and it also just contains those files while my intel hda card is working fine.

lsmod | grep hda shows the following modules as loaded:

snd_hda_codec_hdmi     49152  1
snd_hda_codec_conexant    24576  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    69632  1 snd_hda_codec_conexant
snd_hda_intel          36864  0
snd_hda_codec         135168  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hda_core           86016  5 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hwdep              16384  2 snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm               110592  5 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_core,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd                    86016  15 snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_timer,thinkpad_acpi,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm

Looking around a bit problems to get the available codecs seems to be a known. Maybe grep dmesg for hda_codec if there is anything suspicious. Seems that's also related to getting the right card model which is what i was referring to by intel hda module options (see: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-ker … xt;hb=HEAD).

Are you sure about that? From what i can tell it seems to be available in both Devuan Jessie and Ascii.

Sorry, i am not much help here but if you actually booted using grub that doesn't seem to make any sense. No idea what kind of mistake during install could cause this short of not installing grub at all.

If they are missing very much depends on view point but i agree. I'd be quite annoyed to put it lightly if IceWM (or any window manager for that matter) started pulling in dependencies like polkit or even yike gnome stuff.

Yep, that's kinda what i ment by pattern It's not like his other inventions aren't awful and unix hating but pulseaudio is a good example. For the average user there is hardly any advantage over ALSA, it took forever (and another maintainer) to become somewhat stable and those who might welcome the additional features (professional audio users) won't touch it since it's technically useless for them. Pure lennart ware.

Well, what is a mess is quite subjective. It might be OK for you but for other people it isn't. I don't want to use it because in my opinion it's horrible by design (it's a lennart design after all - look at all the other stuff he did and i am quite sure you'll notice a pattern...). It interferes with my fundamental reasons for using Linux and that won't change no matter how it's packaged. Tons of complexity added for little to no gain is simply not my cup of tea.

I see. Never tried auto mounting. At most i use spacefm and udevil to mount stuff but i can't even remember if i did this back then. My usage of slim was probably during wheezy days so it's been a while.

Cool and don't worry to much about your english. As far as i am concerned it's fine but then i am not a native speaker either. Who knows how we both sound to someone who has spoken english for his/her whole life?

My pleasure. Any time!

Ah, i see. On such a system 32bit is obviously a perfect choice (besides 64bit not really being possible of course). Those specs remind me a little of my old laptop. A Mobile Athlon 1800+ with exactly 512MB of RAM and that was tough to setup already. I also still have Pentium 3 based laptop lying around. If i get the time i might give FluXuan a try on this beast

Yes, finding a usable browser will be hard. I recently tried to use a very old laptop (sorry can't remember the actual specs - some very old Celeron CPU maybe?) and while it would run firefox it was to slow to do anything with it. After trying a bunch of browsers i settled for netsurf. Still slow but somewhat usable. Sadly no javascript support but i think they are working on it. Links2 in graphics mode would likely run even faster but it's seriously ugly to point i'd rather use text mode.

Sounds great. I am quite curious as to how much performance you can squeeze out of these old systems and looking forward to testing it

Have you used Mate before on the same hardware and what kind of hardware are you using? 27 seconds seems excessive but if you are using (much) older hardware it might be just that Mate is way more heavyweight compared to openbox (and likely most other plain window managers). As Miyo i haven't used Mate either but i read that they are updating to GTK3 so it seems Mate is very much in active development and even if it used to start faster things might have changed a bit. Still if it used to start in 5 seconds it suddenly taking 27 doesn't seem exactly right. Also can't explain the mouse weirdness. Just a random guess.

Well, almost You got die and der mixed up. A spoon is male while a fork is female (for whatever unknown reasons). It's pretty much a non issue anyways since beyond sounding a bit weird it's not going to change the meaning of a sentence and at least where i life there are so many non native speakers that it's not going to be noticed much at all. Besides, with some words it even depends on the region you are in. Like email for example is generaly accepted to be female in northern and central germany but when you move further south torwards austria you'll notice that it suddenly lost it's gender and became neutral.

If someone is interested in germanic languages i think dutch would be easier for english speakers than german as it doesn't have the gender/article madness and often seems closer to english than the german translations. Like you have 'street' in english 'straat' in dutch but 'Straße' in german, 'blood' - 'bloed' - 'Blut', 'i have' - 'ik heb' - 'ich habe' or even 'santa claus' - 'sinterclaas' - 'Weihnachtsmann' with german being completly off here. Anyways, my coffee is empty so i guess that's enough language observations for now. Hope i did'nt bore you to much

Sorry, i did not want to imply the Devuan team should do the work but the person interested in providing the package.

That's pretty much where i saw room for pragmatism. Setting the official adoption in motion is something i'd try to avoid before gauging interest/response/stability. If it turns out non optimal that approach would result in the least amount of time wasted for everyone or am i missing something there?

As far as i am concerned i'd probably keep hosting my packages at a custom repo anyways unless there is a huge demand and i can see myself doing a proper job at maintaining it.