Debian

ALSA install

ALSA: No sound after Debian install.
This happened with Wheezy on a Thinkpad X31, a Thinkpad X61s: it's probably not Thinkpad related.

It's a minimal install, with xorg-server, xdm, awesome and some others.
All seems to be okay (/proc/asound/cards, kernel modules, irq, etc.)

The solution was to initialize alsa:


# alsactl init 0

As the sound card had id 0 (cat /proc/asound/cards). Sound was then there.
I guess it will worth to try to add a line in the post install script.