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 -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0
