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Re: No sound after bullseye install

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Bob Latest wrote:

> after installing Debian bullseye I can't get sound to work. I'm using
> lightdm + dwm, and I have pulseaudio installed. "pavucontrol" ist stuck
> on the message "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..."
> 

perhaps the pulseaudio server is not running - you can check

> I don't understand zilch about how sound on Linux works, but my
> previous version of Debian on the same hardware worked.

you have 

hardware -> kernel driver -> alsa -> pulseaudio -> application

- kernel driver utilizes the hardware
- alsa utilizes the kernel driver
- PA utilizes ALSA and provides a unified interface + capabilities

so it could be anything in the chain - check if you need firmware for
example if ALSA works (aplay etc) then check the next in the chain


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No sound after bullseye install Bob Latest <boblatest@posteo.org> - 2021-10-04 07:30 +0200
  Re: No sound after bullseye install "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-10-04 07:40 +0200
  Re: No sound after bullseye install deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-10-04 07:40 +0200
    Re: No sound after bullseye install Bob Latest <boblatest@posteo.org> - 2021-10-04 19:30 +0200
      Re: No sound after bullseye install Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 09:00 +0200
        Re: No sound after bullseye install Daniel Haude <dhaude@posteo.de> - 2021-10-05 17:30 +0200

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