no sound except speakup

[JOHN G HEIM]

It was indeed pulseaudio. I killed the pulseaudio process and ran aplay 
again but it still did not work. But I noticed that another pulseaudio 
process had been started. So then I removed the pulseaudio package 
entirely. Now it works. But then I ran startx and got no speech from 
orca. But then I ran spd-conf and configured speech-dispatcher for alsa 
and now I get speech in the GUI too. So this is all good. This is my 
network server so I don't care about the GUI too much anyway. But it 
looks like if I really need a GUI, I'll have it.


Thanks everybody. Linux rocks. Well, the linux support community, 
specifically speakup and orca, rocks.


On 6/5/19 9:22 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 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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John G. Heim, jheim at math.wisc.edu, 608-263-4189