On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:52:12 +0300 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, that was it. I hadn't installed ALSA at all. I wasn't aware > > that pulseaudio sits on top of ALSA. > > Because PulseAudio "sits on top of" ALSA it also depends on it. Some > command-line tools for ALSA are not installed by default though (e.g. > the package alsa-tools). Right. And I needed alsactl from alsa-tools to find out that my speakers were muted.