On 12/07/2015 11:06, Felix Miata wrote: > Last Debian I installed on any of my own systems was Etch, until Friday, when > I did a network minimal, then added TDE. In a broad sense, only one thing > bothers me at this point, no sound. In openSUSE we have YaST2 for such things > as sound configuration, but in Jessie/TDE I haven't found anything that > helps. Trying to use Synaptic to figure it out isn't working, because its > scroller is worthless - it has no buttons to scroll only a line at atime, and > the scrollbar hopelessly overshoots trying to drag or click. TCC's Sound & > Multimedia isn't producing any sound or any clues as to why not. SMplayer > plays video but without sound. Is there some TDE tool not yet installed that > can configure sound, or do I need some as yet undiscovered Debian tool to > make sound work? https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA didn't seem to help at all. :-( > > # dpkg-query | egrep 'alsa|libasou' > ii alsamixergui 0.9.0rc2-1-9.1 > amd64 graphical soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver > ii alsa-tools 1.0.28-1 > amd64 Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware > ii alsa-tools-gui 1.0.28-1 > amd64 GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware > ii alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 > amd64 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA > ii libasound2:amd64 1.0.28-1 > amd64 shared library for ALSA applications > ii libasound2-data 1.0.28-1 > all Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers > ii libasound2-plugins:amd64 1.0.28-1+b1 > amd64 ALSA library additional plugins > > # lsmod > snd_hda_codec_analog 13795 1 > snd_hda_codec_generic 63181 1 snd_hda_codec_analog > snd_hda_intel 26327 2 > snd_hda_controller 26646 1 snd_hda_intel > snd_hda_codec 104463 4 > snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller,snd_hda_codec_analog > snd_hwdep 13148 1 snd_hda_codec > snd_pcm 88662 4 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller > snd_timer 26614 2 snd_pcm > snd 65244 9 > snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_analog > soundcore 13026 2 snd,snd_hda_codec Have you tried 'alsactl init'? Usually works for me, providing nothing is muted. --