No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

Kerry Hoath kerry at gotss.net
Sun Oct 17 04:52:22 EDT 2010


Alsa mutes all volume channels by default.
The problem is that with high definition audio devices there is often a 
separate volume for Speakers, Headphone etc.
You need to raise the Master, PCM and whatever you are using in the way 
of headphones or speakers.
Regards, Kerry.

On 17/10/2010 8:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Chuck Hallenbeck, le Tue 12 Oct 2010 20:19:06 -0400, a écrit :
>> Same behavior as before. The iso is quite a bit larger, but no change
>> in its behavior.
>
> Ok, I guess the issue is with the volume level.  I guess you have no
> hardware way to increase it?
>
>> Both this one and the 20-Sep-2010 one do something a little surprising
>> though. Every other live CD I have ever used will lock the CD drive
>> while the system is running. The eject button is disabled. But with
>> both these espeakup images, I can eject the CD with the manual eject
>> button when enough time has elapsed to conclude it has failed. Not sure
>> if that's a clue, or unrelated to anything.
>
> It's unrelated: it's just that this image gets completely loaded into
> RAM and thus the CD is not needed at all during installation.
>
> Samuel
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