On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 14:25, Curtis Maurand <curtis@???> wrote:

> On 12/6/23 01:37, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> Curtis Maurand said on Mon, 4 Dec 2023 22:53:47 -0500
>>
>>> My sound also stopped working recently. It's a default daedelus
>>> install. Sound worked when I first installed, but somewhere along the
>>> line it stopped.I never installed pulse audio. It detects my
>>> hardware. When I choose to test the speakers, I hear something that
>>> sounds like a brief crackle, then nothing.
>>> Getting ready to format and re-install.
>>
>> Wait!
>>
>> If you're not using pulseaudio, life is much simpler.
>>
>> Run alsamixer. Press the F6 key and you'll see a list of your sound
>> cards. Unless you're shipping sound out through an HDMI cable, you can
>> rule out that one.
>
> I finally got back to working on this. One of these days, I'm going to learn to do snapshots. The machine had pulseaudio installed. I uninstalled it. Things have gone from bad to worse. It's now loading intel drivers (it's an amd ryzen with amd audio hardware). I either need to reinstall the audio stack or I need to reinstall altogether. I don't see any way to re-install the audio stack from scratch. That's all handled during install.
>
> --Curtis

Most desktop and laptop audio chips use the intel module/driver. It's a generic name.
Try running from a terminal as user:
speaker-test
Do you get sound?

Rob