Hi:

I'm a relative newbie to Linux, but I'll do the work if you point me in the right direction.

Asus M5AR97 v2.0 motherboard.
Sound chip: Realtek 887 HD Audio

I made a bootable USB flash drive and Kali boots fine. So far, most of what I tried works okay except for sound.
Sound plays through my speakerphone, instead of through my onboard Realtek 887.

I checked the Pulseaudio settings, and the Realtek does appear to be listed in there. However, when I try to configure sound settings to do playback through the sound card, it plays nothing. Needless to say, a speakerphone is not a good device to listen to video content. Pulseaudio is not what you'd call a user-friendly interface. Very confusing, IMO.

Can anyone suggest how to fix this?


Thanks