no speech in talkingArch cd

[Chris Brannon]

"Rob Hudson" <captinlogic at gmail.com> writes:

> 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%
> amixer set PCM 100%
> amixer set Front 100%

Here's an old trick I've used for debugging this sort of thing.  It
worked very nicely in the days of the floppy disk, because you could
hear the floppy drive spin when you mounted it.
If you have a spare flash drive handy, you can do the same thing with a
flash drive, but there's a lot more guess-work involved.  I don't know
what your hardware configuration is like, but I'll assume that you only
have one hard disk.  If that's not the case, you'll have to change these
instructions to match your config.

Boot from the CD.  Wait a while.  There's no real way to be sure it has
booted.  A few tones from the console speaker would make a nice
indicator, so I think I'll add that to the next CD release, just to help
in these situations.
Once the CD is booted, your hard drive should be /dev/sda.  Plug in your
flash drive.  Hopefully, that'll show up as /dev/sdb.  Like I said,
guesswork.
Now,
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
amixer > /mnt/amixer-output.txt
umount /mnt
Unplug, reboot, and hope that the amixer output got saved to the flash
drive.

-- Chris