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

Try doing a 'journalctl' as root and look for Alsa or Pipewire errors 
after boot.


On 9/12/25 6:10 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> 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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