On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 12:35 -0500, Curtis Maurand wrote:

This is what I have installed:
dpkg -l | grep alsa
ii  alsa-base                              1.0.27+1                   
all          dummy package to ease purging of obsolete conffiles
ii  alsa-tools                             1.2.5-3                    
amd64        Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
ii  alsa-utils                             1.2.8-1                    
amd64        Utilities for configuring and using ALSA

dpkg -l | grep pulse
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64          16.1+dfsg1-2+b1            
amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64                        16.1+dfsg1-2+b1            
amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64          0.4.5-1                    
amd64        Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio

No pulseadio, no pipewire.

Remember to unmute with the help of alsamixer!

Good luck!!