Lovely, that worked. After a reboot and un-muting in alsamixer, the laptop speakers work great. cheers, James On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 09:22, Barak A. Pearlmutter <barak@pearlmutter.net> wrote: > > No need for anything so complex. This should work: > > $ fakeroot debian/rules binary > > Or sudo if you don't have fakeroot.