Re: no speech in the console but speech in the mate desktop under Trixie

Hi, After doing some test installations it appears that now sound is 
totally broken in the console even when on a fresh installation on a 
system where previously sound worked regardless of if you were in the 
mate desktop and the console but only one at a time now I only get 
speech in the mate desktop and in the console the same thing no speech 
and the alsa mixer is down when I try to run it.  What information can I 
provide to help resolve these issues? Nick Gawronski

On 9/11/2025 3:26 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I am not sure what update caused this issue to happen but now if I 
> boot into a console I get no speech from espeakup.  If I try espeakup 
> or any console based audio program.  I am able to boot into the mate 
> desktop by starting the lightdm service and orca runs just fine but at 
> a very low volume.  Once I am in the mate desktop I go to a terminal 
> and run alsamixer and set it back to %100 and then run as root alsactl 
> store to save the settings and again I have to do this over and over.  
> If I ssh into my linux system and run alsamixer when the mate desktop 
> is not active and run alsamixer as root I get the message that the 
> mixer device is down.  When I also try to access the speakup console 
> with control and alt and f1 in the mate desktop I also get no speech.  
> This is why I usually have the mate desktop disabled as i have never 
> managed to get both espeakup and orca working when I would like to do 
> this.  Other then a complete reinstallation what can I do to fix this 
> issue?  Nick Gawronski
>