Getting speakup to run on debian

[Steve Matzura]

Yes, and I just got beat up (LOLP in two places for not reporting
something as a bug, but I'm very conservative on bug reporting until I
am absolutely positively sure I'm not the one with the bug. Debuggers'
time is more valuable than mine will ever be, so I am wont to waste
their time on what's really a user problem, and the computer gods know
I've certainly been at the root of more than a few of those.


On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:03:03 +0000, you wrote:

>Glad you got it going.
>
>Probably would be better if nothing was muted by default so that it 
>should come up with sound enabelled.
>
>I got caught with the same issue a few years ago but probably best to 
>report it as a bug.
>
>
>
>On 31/12/15 16:40, Steve Matzura wrote:
>> Yes, I absolutely did have *EVERYTHING* muted and didn't know it until
>> I learned (a little) how to use amixer. I'm still a little confused
>> about one thing: amixer thinks the main sound card's output is a
>> headphone jack, so when I set the volume for 'Front' to 100%, I got no
>> results, but when I set pvolume to 100% for Headphone, on it came. Now
>> that I think about it a little, I've seen something similar to this in
>> Windows. These Realtek sound chips have an annoying property where
>> they show two devices with the same name, something like "Realtek
>> High-Definition Speakers". One is the jack on the back of the machine,
>> one is the internal speaker of that machine. However, when you set the
>> default device to one of those two high-definition devices and plug a
>> headphone into the headphone jack, with the internal speaker setting,
>> it doesn't switch over, but with the other one, it does, and the
>> default device now changes to "Realtek High-Definition Headphones". so
>> I think what's going on in the Linux interpretation of all of this is
>> that Linux calls the main output jack "Headphone" because it can be
>> switched to a front-panel connection simply by plugging something into
>> it. I have tried the other jacks on the back panel, of which there are
>> four others (not including the SPDIF/optical connector, which looks
>> and feels nothing like an eighth-inch audio jack), and gotten no
>> response, so I'm 99% sure I'm plugged in to the right thing and have
>> the right control volume set in amixer.
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:13:07 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>> Just a thought,
>>>
>>> Do you have sound working?
>>>
>>> running "speaker-test" should give you white noise if sound is working.
>>>
>>> You may have some of the sound controls muted.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31/12/15 12:08, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>>> I just installed a fresh Jessie yesterday. The install was assisted by
>>>> Speakup, which I started at the install screen main menu by pressing
>>>> s<ENTER>. I was quite impressed with the way it all worked, with one
>>>> silly exception: There was a screen with 78 choices, one per line, and
>>>> I couldn't figure out how to scroll the screen backward to read the
>>>> first and second screens of choices, so I just went with the default
>>>> choice, which turned out to be the correct one for me for the question
>>>> being asked. Very impressive. No Orca, no forms, just straight CLI. I
>>>> love CLI.
>>>>
>>>> Now then, the system is up and running, there's no desktop, I boot
>>>> directly to the login prompt, and now I want to get Speakup working on
>>>> the console terminals. Someone named Samuel from Debian accessibility
>>>> told me I should install the espeakup package, but apt-get can't find
>>>> it. What'd I do wrong? And why would I even need to be doing this
>>>> since obviously Speakup is included in the install, you'd think, or at
>>>> least I did, that it would already exist on the system and be able to
>>>> be run.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for any and all assistance and advice.
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