> The Sound applet opens, the volume controls slide back and forth, the
volume hotkeys on my keyboard also give the indication they are working. But
no sound.
Install alsa-utils if it is not installed already, and run
$ alsamixer
Press F6 and select your laptop's sound card. Make sure that the Master
volume is unmuted and turned up. With your headphones unplugged, do the same
with the Speaker volume. With your headphones plugged in, do the same for
the Headphone volume.
Then, run
$ speaker-test
and see if white noise plays. Try this both with and without headphones
plugged in.
Let me know the results and we'll take it from there.