Hello forum members,
I installed debian a few days ago, but I can´t get the in-build speaker to work. Image may be NSFW.
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I spent many hours on this problem but now I am out of ideas so this forum is my last hope...
Current behavior
I also made sure that nothing is muted in alsamixer.
The way I understood it is that pulseaudio makes the mixing of the different sound signals. And than forwards the signal to alsa, which speaks to the driver, which speaks to hardware. With this understanding it makes no sense to use debian without pulseaudio if you want to use sound. Apparently I am wrong because otherwise it would be installed by default. Could somebody explain it to me?
When I try to play something to alsa directly using aplay without optional arguments I can´t hear something as well (both with and without sudo). There is no error message.
Thank you so much for your help in beforehand!
I installed debian a few days ago, but I can´t get the in-build speaker to work. Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

I spent many hours on this problem but now I am out of ideas so this forum is my last hope...
Current behavior
- The sound works on the headphone jack and via bluetooth headphones.
- When I play audio I can see the peaks in pavucontrol, but I can´t hear something of the speaker of my laptop.
- The sound works as expected on windows 11.
- Asus Pro Art Studiobook
- Dual boot with Windows 11 Pro and Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Code:
simon@debianProArt:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0x625f250000 irq 211 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0x77080000 irq 17simon@debianProArt:~$ aplay -l**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Code:
simon@debianProArt:~$ systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.servicesimon@debianProArt:~$ pacmd list-sinks1 sink(s) available. * index: 0name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo>driver: <module-alsa-card.c>flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCYstate: IDLEsuspend cause: (none)priority: 9039volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB balance 0.00base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dBvolume steps: 65537muted: nocurrent latency: 1999.67 msmax request: 344 KiBmax rewind: 344 KiBmonitor source: 0sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hzchannel map: front-left,front-right Stereoused by: 0linked by: 0configured latency: 2000.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 2000.00 mscard: 1 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3>module: 7properties:alsa.resolution_bits = "16"device.api = "alsa"device.class = "sound"alsa.class = "generic"alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"alsa.name = "ALC294 Analog"alsa.id = "ALC294 Analog"alsa.subdevice = "0"alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"alsa.device = "0"alsa.card = "0"alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0x625f250000 irq 211"alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3"sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0"device.bus = "pci"device.vendor.id = "8086"device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"device.product.id = "7a50"device.form_factor = "internal"device.string = "front:0"device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400"device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"ports:analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)properties:device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"active port: <analog-output-speaker>
The way I understood it is that pulseaudio makes the mixing of the different sound signals. And than forwards the signal to alsa, which speaks to the driver, which speaks to hardware. With this understanding it makes no sense to use debian without pulseaudio if you want to use sound. Apparently I am wrong because otherwise it would be installed by default. Could somebody explain it to me?
When I try to play something to alsa directly using aplay without optional arguments I can´t hear something as well (both with and without sudo). There is no error message.
Thank you so much for your help in beforehand!
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