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
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-firmwarein the file /etc/apt/sources.list. Ifnon-free-firmwareis not present, then obviously you have no non-free firmware.
- What (sound) hardware are you using? (try
In such cases on Debian, as root, I try my "lazy" approach
apt install vlc mplayer vorbis-tools ffmpeg mpvwhich may pull in the needed codecs to play mp3, ogg and flac files. Does playing a video in your browser work btw ?
Fam, with all due respect, reconsider how you go about interacting with the community for support.
We love to help, so don't get me wrong. But you have to allow us to help you. Paramount with this is communication; so consider responding to questions asked by those who reach out to help.
Like, I'm not exaggerating when I say that your issues would have already been resolved if you had been (more) responsive.
