No sound

[Widgeteye]

I have installed:
Linux version 3.16.0-4-686-pae (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19)

And the sound does not work. I have tried playing music using mplayer and everything goes ok except there is no sound at all.

I have checked alsamixer to make sure the sound card isn't muted and it's not, so I don't know what else to check.
Any help appreciated.

BTW I am moving to Debian after over twenty years with Slackware and am finding that Debian is actually a little more complicated than Slackware.
Although Slackware has no package manager with automatic dependency checking, once you do have the packages finally installed, it just works, forever.
I was hoping because Debian has a much better package manager, that I would find it easier to use on a daily basis, but so far that is not the case.
So far I have been unable to install DeadBeef and even if I did there would be no sound. I really do want to use Debian, it is almost as old as Slackware
and I know it's stable just as Slackware is. But so far what I have found is that unless you know where and how to setup the software repositories to get all
the software you want from all the different repositories, you are really no better off with the fancy package manager.

Anyway, Thanks for any help....

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Please post the output of:

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aplay -l
cat /proc/asound/cards
amixer
apt-cache policy

Please use code tags when posting terminal output.

you are really no better off with the fancy package manager.

+1, I use git for my package manager these days...

[Widgeteye]

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larry@larry /Music/Oggs/Don_Henley $ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

larry@larry /Music/Oggs/Don_Henley $ cat /proc/asound/cards
cat: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory

larry@larry /Music/Oggs/Don_Henley $ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
larry@larry /Music/Oggs/Don_Henley $ apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates/main Translation-en
 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates/main i386 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=jessie-updates,l=Debian,c=main
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
 500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main Translation-en
 500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main i386 Packages
     release v=8,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian-Security,c=main
     origin security.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main Translation-en
 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
     release v=8.7,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
Pinned packages:

[stevepusser]

A common hardware issue, getting more common with newer hardware such as Skylake. Could you tell us what you have, or at least its vintage?

Please, what is so tough about adding my backports repo? It's a lot more work on my end to create the packages in it...If you want a Debian spinoff that's even more point and click, try MX Linux 16.