audio – No sound in Debian 12 on laptop, pipewire problem?

It seems the default in Debian 12 is now pipewire. I have no sound on this new laptop. I am looking for the easiest solution (with pipewire or pulseaudio) to restore basic sound management. AlsaMixer tells me I have a Realtek AC245 chip.

aplay -L:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 0: HDA Analog (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 3: HDMI1 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 4: HDMI2 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 5: HDMI3 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 31: HDA Analog Deep Buffer (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

aptitude search pipewire\|pulseaudio

i A gstreamer1.0-pipewire - GStreamer 1.0 plugin for the PipeWire multimedia server
p  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio - GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package)
p  libkf5pulseaudioqt-dev - Pulseaudio bindings development files for Qt
p  libkf5pulseaudioqt-doc - Pulseaudio bindings library for Qt documentation
p  libkf5pulseaudioqt2-doc - transitional package for libkf5pulseaudioqt-doc
i A libkf5pulseaudioqt3 - Pulseaudio bindings library for Qt
p  libkpipewire-dev - KDE's Pipewire libraries - development files
p  libkpipewire5 - KDE's Pipewire libraries - libkpipewire5 library
p  libkpipewiredmabuf5 - KDE's Pipewire libraries - libkpipewiredmabuf5
p  libkpipewirerecord5 - KDE's Pipewire libraries - libkpipewirerecord5
i A libpipewire-0.3-0 - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server
i A libpipewire-0.3-common - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - common files
p  libpipewire-0.3-dev - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - development
i A libpipewire-0.3-modules - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - modules
p  libpipewire-0.3-modules-x11 - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - X11 modules
p  mkchromecast-pulseaudio - Pulseaudio dependencies to cast with mkchromecast
p  osspd-pulseaudio - OSS Proxy Daemon: PulseAudio backend
i A pipewire - audio and video processing engine multimedia server
i A pipewire-alsa - PipeWire ALSA plugin
i A pipewire-audio - recommended set of PipeWire packages for a standard audio desktop use
p  pipewire-audio-client-libraries - transitional package for pipewire-alsa and pipewire-jack
i A pipewire-bin - PipeWire multimedia server - programs
p  pipewire-doc - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - documentation
p  pipewire-jack - PipeWire JACK plugin
p  pipewire-libcamera - PipeWire libcamera plugin
p  pipewire-media-session - example session manager for PipeWire
p  pipewire-media-session-alsa - example session manager for PipeWire (alsa)
p  pipewire-media-session-jack - example session manager for PipeWire (jack)
p  pipewire-media-session-pulseaudio - example session manager for PipeWire (pulseaudio)
i A pipewire-pulse - PipeWire PulseAudio daemon
p  pipewire-tests - PipeWire multimedia server - tests and examples
p  pipewire-v4l2 - PipeWire V4L2 plugin
p  projectm-pulseaudio - projectM PulseAudio module
p  pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server
p  pulseaudio-equalizer - Equalizer sink module for PulseAudio sound server
p  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth - Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
p  pulseaudio-module-gsettings - GSettings module for PulseAudio sound server
p  pulseaudio-module-jack - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server
p  pulseaudio-module-lirc - lirc module for PulseAudio sound server
p  pulseaudio-module-raop - RAOP module for PulseAudio sound server
p  pulseaudio-module-zeroconf - Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound server
i A pulseaudio-utils - Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
p  qml-module-org-kde-pipewire - KDE's Pipewire libraries - QML module
p  squeezelite-pulseaudio - lightweight headless Squeezebox emulator - PulseAudio version
p  vlc-plugin-pipewire - PipeWire audio plugins for VLC
i A xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin - Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio

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