ALSA not accessible

ALSA has been installed according to the Software list under administration.

But when I search for it in my Applications it’s not there!

At present my sound defaults to the HDMI output. I wish to change this to the standard built-in audio output.

I’d be grateful for advice.

Alsa is not app but framework which provide API for sound cards. You should use alsamixer instead.

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Here’s a list of available utilities:

alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsa-info.sh
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsabat
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsabat-test.sh
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsactl
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsaloop
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsamixer
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsatplg
alsa-utils /usr/bin/alsaucm
alsa-utils /usr/bin/amidi
alsa-utils /usr/bin/amixer
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aplay
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aplaymidi
alsa-utils /usr/bin/arecord
alsa-utils /usr/bin/arecordmidi
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aseqdump
alsa-utils /usr/bin/aseqnet
alsa-utils /usr/bin/axfer
alsa-utils /usr/bin/iecset
alsa-utils /usr/bin/speaker-test
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Thanks!

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