no speech in talkingArch cd

Rob Hudson captinlogic at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 18:36:30 EDT 2013


My box has only one card in it so you don't eed the -c parameter. But maybe 
I'll plug in my soundblaster and see if that works.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: no speech in talkingArch cd


> Greetings!
>
> I use a command like this for amixer, if memory serves:
>
> amixer -c 0 sset Master 100%
>
> I think the "-c 0" is for the soundcard to use.  There may be another dash 
> before "sset" (set with an extra s).  I think I added "playback" after 
> Master when I last did this.  I think I also need to capitalize the M in 
> Master.
>
> hth
> Al
>
>
> On 06/03/2013 05:21 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
>> I ran the talking arch cd but I got no speech. I ran alsamixer and hit m 
>> and up arrow a few times, tried
>> amixer set Master 100%
>> amixert set PCM 100%
>> amixer set Front 100%
>> I have a serial to usb adaptor so I even did
>> brltty -b al -d /dev/ttyUSB0
>> nothing.
>> It does spin a lot and rumbles to itself, but nothing I did got any 
>> reaction.
>> What else can I try?
>> The vinux cd's all booted fine here, so it's something about that 
>> particular cd. This is 2012/11/something .iso of the arch cd.
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