Debian Buster installer and speech issues

[Didier Spaier]

On 23/04/2019 23:40, Didier Spaier wrote:
> 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.

My assumption is that' there is an issue with S38espeakup.

If I understand well, you modified it to wait that
/sys/class/sound/card*/id be populated.

I thought, maybe there's an issue with this modification.

However, I have no issue with only one sound card in qemu
(option -soundhw hda): I get a speaking dialog to choose
the language, as expected. So, no clue, sorry.

Best,

Didier

PS FYI I attach the script used for card detection in the
current Slint installer. Obviously it is a modification of
S38espeakup (but a former version).
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BASE=/sys/class/sound

if [ ! -d /sys/class/sound ]; then
	touch /tmp/noespeakup
	exit
fi

strip () {
	cardid=${1#$BASE/card}
	echo ${cardid%/id}
}

if ! grep -q speakup /proc/cmdline; then
	# Give drivers some time to detect boards :/
	sleep 2
	IDS=$(echo $BASE/card*/id)
	N=$(echo $IDS | wc -w)
	case $N in
		0)
			touch /tmp/noespeakup
			exit
			;;
		1)
			# Just one card, can not be wrong
			/usr/bin/espeakup -V $(cat /tmp/speech) > /tmp/espeakup.log 2>&1
			echo "/usr/bin/espeakup -V $(cat /tmp/speech)" >> /tmp/report
			;;
		*)
			# Several cards, make the user choose
			CARD=none
			while [ "$CARD" = none ]; do
				for ID in $IDS; do
					i=$(strip $ID)
					ALSA_CARD=$(cat /sys/class/sound/card$i/id)
					ALSA_CARD=$ALSA_CARD /usr/bin/espeakup -V $(cat /tmp/speech) >> /tmp/espeakup.log 2>&1
					echo "ALSA_CARD=$ALSA_CARD /usr/bin/espeakup -V $(cat /tmp/speech)" >> /tmp/report
					echo $ALSA_CARD >/tmp/alsacard
					echo "defaults.pcm.card $i" >/tmp/asound.conf
					echo "defaults.ctl.card $i" >>/tmp/asound.conf
					answer=none
					echo "Please type enter to use the sound board $ALSA_CARD"
					echo
					read -t 7 dummy
					answer=$?
					if [ $answer -eq 0 ]; then
						CARD=$i
						echo "Card chosen: $i" >> /tmp/cards 
						break
					fi
					PID=$(ps -C espeakup --noheaders -o pid)
					kill -s 9 $PID
					sleep 1
				done
				if [ "$CARD" = none ]; then
					echo "No card was selected. Speech will not be provided."
					touch /tmp/noespeakup
					rm /tmp/alsacard
					rm /tmp/asound.conf
					echo "No sound card selected" >> /tmp/report
					exit
				fi
			done
	esac
fi