no speech in talkingArch cd

[Al Sten-Clanton]

That's good to know.  Maybe I don't need it, either; I was just 
following the examples in the amixer manual as well as I could.

Al

On 06/03/2013 06:36 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
> 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.
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>> 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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