Debian Buster installer and speech issues

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Tue Apr 23 17:43:14 EDT 2019


I'm on bare metal only and have two sound cards both of which were
detected, I ought to have included that in my earlier failure message.

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:40:20
> From: Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr>
> To: debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org, speakup at linux-speakup.org
> Subject: Re: Debian Buster installer and speech issues
> Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:40:35 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org
>
> On 23/04/2019 18:22, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Could people who were having issues please try the following image which
> > includes the fix, so I can be sure that it works correctly and I can
> > include that in time for Buster?
>
> Hello,
>
> I started the installer in qemu VM with 3 sound cards.
>
> No issue with the installer, chose 1 6 10 12,
> started the installed system, logged-in in lightdm
> with speech, orca running in Mate, espeakup was running
> with the expected voice fr-fr.
> I couldn't manage to switch to a tty though although
> I told quemu to grab the keys with Ctrl+Alt+G,
> this switched to a tty of the host so I don't know
> if espeakup would speak in that situation.
>
> On bare metal, no luck: the installer could not detect
> my sound card, so no  speech in the installer.
>
> It made 9 unsuccessful attempts, told it would tried
> other cards, seemed to gave up.
>
> I have only one sound card.
>
> That's weird as I have no issue with Slint's installer,
> also using espeakup.
>
> I attach my alsa info, stripped from useless overweight.
>
> Best,
>
> Didier
>
>
>

-- 
-------------- next part --------------
upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.64
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Tue Apr 23 21:19:40 UTC 2019


!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------

Slackware 14.2


!!DMI Information
!!---------------

Manufacturer:      LENOVO
Product Name:      4284CY1
Product Version:   ThinkPad W520
Firmware Version:  8BET62WW (1.42 )
Board Vendor:      LENOVO
Board Name:        4284CY1


!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release:    4.19.30
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
Architecture:      x86_64
Processor:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz
SMP Enabled:       Yes


!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version:     k4.19.30
Library version:    1.1.8
Utilities version:  1.1.8


!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------

snd_hda_intel


!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
      Running - Yes

ESound Daemon:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
      Running - No

Jack:
      Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
      Running - No


!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xf3a20000 irq 37


!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)


!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Subsystem ID's
!!-------------------------------------------------------

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1c20 (rev 04)
	Subsystem: 17aa:21cf

!!ALSA Device nodes
!!-----------------

crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Apr 23 23:12 /dev/snd/controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Apr 23 23:12 /dev/snd/hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Apr 23 23:15 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Apr 23 23:15 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116,  1 Apr 24  2019 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Apr 23 23:12 /dev/snd/timer

/dev/snd/by-path:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  60 Apr 24  2019 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 180 Apr 24  2019 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  12 Apr 23 23:12 pci-0000:00:1b.0 -> ../controlC0


!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!--------------------

APLAY

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20590 Analog [CX20590 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ARECORD

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20590 Analog [CX20590 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

!!Amixer output
!!-------------

!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [PCH]

Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf3a20000 irq 37'
  Mixer name	: 'Conexant CX20590'
  Components	: 'HDA:14f1506e,17aa21cf,00100002'
  Controls      : 24
  Simple ctrls  : 11
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 74
  Mono: Playback 65 [88%] [-9.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 74
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 67 [91%] [-7.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 67 [91%] [-7.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 74
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 60 [81%] [-14.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 60 [81%] [-14.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 4
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Mute-LED Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'On' 'Off' 'Follow Capture' 'Follow Mute'
  Item0: 'Follow Mute'
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 7
  Mono: Playback 1 [14%] [-24.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 80
  Front Left: Capture 80 [100%] [6.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 80 [100%] [6.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 120
  Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 4
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]


!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!--------------

[    0.356005] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Dell-Video)
[    0.356005] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio)
[    0.356008] ACPI: EC: EC started
--
[   17.302212] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:09/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input10
[   17.303178] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[   17.359818] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: i2c: aux 000b: address-only transaction dropped
--
[   18.052930] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
[   18.075377] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0: CX20590: BIOS auto-probing.
[   18.075842] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for CX20590: line_outs=1 (0x1f/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[   18.075843] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   18.075845] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0:    hp_outs=2 (0x1c/0x19/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   18.075845] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   18.075846] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0:    inputs:
[   18.075847] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0:      Internal Mic=0x23
[   18.075848] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0:      Mic=0x1b
[   18.075849] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0:      Dock Mic=0x1a
[   18.077136] snd_hda_codec_conexant hdaudioC0D0: Enable sync_write for stable communication
[   18.083189] input: HDA Intel PCH Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12
[   18.083247] input: HDA Intel PCH Dock Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13
[   18.083295] input: HDA Intel PCH Dock Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input14
[   18.083345] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input15
[   18.337532] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67




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