Re: No sound on Debian SID ufter upgrade

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

While I guess that I've got much knowledge about Linux audio regarding
to audio productions, I think I completely have no knowledge about
"desktop audio". I don't trust pulseaudio. I read 1000 times that
nowadays pulseaudio definitively can be disabled, but I also read 1001
times that people get rid of a bug by removing the _disabled_
pulseaudio.

All the times when pulseaudio was a hard dependency for a package, I
installed an empty dummy package. For Ubuntu and Debian I build dummy
packages using equivs.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html

Pulseaudio might not be the culprit for the issue you experience, but
for troubleshooting I would purge remove it.