Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

[Gregory Nowak]

If you installed a graphical desktop, you're probably being dropped
into the desktop when you boot. If this is the case, and you're
logging into the desktop, pulseaudio may not be allowing espeakup to
speak, because espeakup wants to use alsa directly. When your virtual
machine boots, do a ctrl+alt+f1 to go to the first text console. Does
speakup speak at that point if you try to use speakup's review
commands?

To find out which modules are loaded, you'd use the lsmod
command. Something like:

lsmod >lsmod.txt

at the shell prompt should dump a list of the currently loaded modules
into lsmod.txt. Do you have a way to move that file from the virtual
machine to the host? Something like this should be possible under
virtualbox for example with a shared folder.

Greg


On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 04:08:12PM -0500, Hunter Hoke wrote:
> Yes, other sounds work.
> I'm not sure whether the speakup and speakup_soft modules are loaded,
> but I know the VM hasn't rebooted into the installation media because
> I checked the status of the virtual cd/dvd drive.


> 

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