On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:54:14 -0700
Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

>> The issue that I am having is with sound.  My daughter reported that
>> it was not working.  I tried playing a video (in Firefox) from my
>> login and also got no sound.
>>
>> I have since determined that pulseaudio was not running (it is
>> installed).  So I started the pulseaudio daemon under my login,
>> started up Firefox and played a video.  Sound.  Yay!  I logged into
>> my daughter's account and started the pulseaudio daemon, started
>> Firefox and played a video.  No sound.  Boo!

If you have no sound, make sure the following line in

/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

is commented as shown here:

#autospawn=no

source: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/Release_notes.txt

OR install

volumeicon

and configure this tool to run at system startup!

Regards.