no sound except speakup

[Kirk Reiser]

Hey John: When I've had similar issues with sound it's because there
is usually a pulse audio process running or trying to run. There are
work arounds to be able to use pulse audio but I believe it includes
running it as root or something. I don't use pulse audio so I'm not
sure of the work around but others are using it.

   Kirk

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, John G Heim wrote:

> I am running a debian buster machine in character mode. Speakup with software 
> speech works fine but I can't get any other sound. When I use aplay to play a 
> wav file, it prints the data indicating that it is playing the file but there 
> is no sound. The same with espeak and spd-say at the command line. No error 
> messages are displayed but there is no sound. I would think it was a volume 
> problem except I can hear speakup. The sound card controls have volume 
> settings, they are not user settings, right?
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