Similar behaviour for me on Lenovo T480, though: 1. I have no audio at all through built-in speakers or headphones. 2. Initially, there are no output devices enumerated. 3. After a minute or so, HDMI and built-in headphones devices appear. 4. Built-in speakers still do not appear in device list. 5. Built-in headphones still present no audio. Did not test HDMI. 6. Plugging-in USB audio device is recognized, and functions normally. <-- workaround!
-- Package-specific info: File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii init-system-helpers 1.57 ii libasound2 1.1.8-2 ii libasound2-plugins 1.1.8-1 ii libc6 2.29-2 ii libcap2 1:2.25-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-2 ii libgcc1 1:9.2.1-14 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2 ii libltdl7 2.4.6-11 ii liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.30-1 ii libpulse0 13.0-3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1 ii libsndfile1 1.0.28-6 ii libsoxr0 0.1.3-2 ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1.2-1.1 ii libstdc++6 9.2.1-14 ii libsystemd0 242-7 ii libtdb1 1.4.2-2 ii libudev1 242-7 ii libwebrtc-audio-processing1 0.3-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.8-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.8-1 ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 ii pulseaudio-utils 13.0-3 Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii dbus-user-session 1.12.16-2 ii libpam-systemd 242-7 ii rtkit 0.12-4 Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: pn paman <none> pn paprefs <none> pn pavucontrol <none> pn pavumeter <none> ii udev 242-7 -- no debconf information