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[SOLVED] cannot play audio on a fresh installed debian 12 xfce (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know if I didn't install non free firmware. Pavucontrol is installed. If I type alsa on a terminal it returns: bash: alsa: command not found.

ETA: turns out I only had to update the system

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There isn't an alsa command on my system either, so that's no surprise. But we'll need more information to track down the cause, such as:

What (sound) hardware are you using? (try lspci | grep Audio)
What happens when you try to play a sound? Does it get stuck loading / at 0:00, show an error, or just play silently?
Is your system using pulseaudio directly, or via pipewire? (try pactl info)
What shows up in pavucontrol? (Is it detecting your speaker, or just "dummy output"? Is sound muted, and can you unmute?) Try also alsamixer.
If you installed non-free firmware, you should have a few lines like deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware in the file /etc/apt/sources.list. If non-free-firmware is not present, then obviously you have no non-free firmware.