No sound on fresh install of Debian

Question

I'm using Debian with i3. I have both pulseaudio and alsa installed but I cannot get sound to output.

Solution 1

sudo alsactl init worked for me in a similar situation. I believe sudo privileges were required for this. At the time I had these packages installed: alsa-base, alsa-oss, alsa-utils.

Solution 2

On Debian 9 and i3/LXQT I installed the packages alsa-firmware-loaders, alsamixergui, alsaplayer-oss, alsa-utils, alsa-tools and alsa-tools-gui, but this was probably overkill. Then I just used alsamixergui to turn on the Master Volume (make also sure that the speaker icons above it are 'turned on', if you see them) and the appropriate speakers.

Comments

[Archie Croston]

This didn't work unfortunately and the volume is still set to mute after raising both the alsamixer and an xfce mixer I have installed.

[Archie Croston]

Yeah I had checked that just forgot to put it into my question.

[Ferenc Wágner]

Don't forget to check all controls of all "cards" (push F6).

[PYK]

On my DEBIAN alsamixergui was sufficient, Also through the apt-get install alsamixergui , the alsamixer command line, just came back