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

Hi, Just did another test and the same thing is happening on the latest 
development version of the debian-installer so not sure what to do at 
this point as I still have ssh and mate desktop access with speech just 
no console sounds what so ever.  Nick Gawronski

On 9/12/2025 3:15 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, No speech what so ever.  If I ssh into the system and run 
> alsamixer as root I get the error message cannot open mixer: Host is 
> down.  If I login to the mate desktop I get orca working but no speech 
> if I switch back to the console.  Nick Gawronski
>
> On 9/12/2025 1:12 PM, Chevelle wrote:
>> On this system I have 'espeakup' and 'speakup-tools' installed. Are 
>> you sure you don't have speech in the console, or is it just 
>> delayed.  If you login without speech, does it eventually start 
>> talking?  Go into the Mate/Sound preferences and set the volume to 
>> about 65,000.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/12/25 11:37 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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