Live CD silence, (was RE: new debian 7 install and speakup issues)

[Jude DaShiell]

Hi, try aumix set Master 85% <enter> alsactl store <enter>.  Then try 
reboot and see if that's better.

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:

> Somewhat related to the topic below, I've so far been unable to get sound
> (either Speakup or Orca) using what I think is the 7.4 live Debian DVD on my
> 64-bit Linux machine.  I did get Orca working using the 32-bit version on
> this Windows box, but not Speakup.  Even when I determined that speakup_soft
> and apparently related modules were loaded by way of the lsmod and grep
> commands, there was no Speakup.  
> 
> Putting aside the Speakup problem for the moment, it seems that the sound
> card on this 32-bit machine works well enough with Debian but the one on my
> 64-bit Linux box does not.  The Fedora live CDs are at low volume when I
> bring Orca up there, but there's enough sound that I can adjust settings in
> gnome.  Vinux used to have a series of keystrokes that allowed you to get
> sound in such cases and then adjust the volume, but last time I looked I
> didn't find those.  Is there anything like that for straight Debian?  My
> purpose in all this is to try to kick a lot of tires on the Debian live CD
> before deciding whether to keep what I've got or switch.  
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Al 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:54 PM
> To: Linux for blind general discussion
> Subject: Re: new debian 7 install and speakup issues
> 
> You didn't get specific about your install, but let me guess what happened
> 1) you installed using a hardware synthesizer and didn't put the necessary
> parameters into lilo or grub when you had the opportunity,
> speakup.synth=ltlk would be one possible example
> 2) you used s at the boot prompt and got speech on the sound card all the
> way through the install, when you boot your system and the disk stops hit
> enter once and wait you may find you actually do have speech after all.
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, mike wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just installed a new debian 7 install and at spoke during speech however
> > once the system restarted speech stopped working any ideas?
> > 
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