No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Samuel,

This is a 1.7 GHz P4 processor, with two sound cards: Intel 82801
(ICH4), and Creative Labs SB-Live! using emu10k1 driver. Booting with
the i386 espeakup iso from your web page (20-Sep-2010) gives me the
expected beep, but no audio after pressing enter. I waited a very long
time, tried both output jacks, double-checked the speaker volume, etc.,
but no audio. Substituting an archlinux talking installer CD and
pressing the restart button brought up the talking arch install just
fine.

Sorry I have no help here to look at the screen. 

Chuck


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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

Hi Chuck:

My soundcard is very close to yours, an Intel 82801 (ICH8), and I also 
got no sound as I reported earlier.

BTW, I've just tested the espeakup-amd64 image using my pendrive, with 
no luck as well.

I have e-mailed Samuel in private with the output of the amixer and 
lsmod commands from my machine. Lets wait....

Cheers.

Em 12/10/2010 18:52, Chuck Hallenbeck escreveu:
> Samuel,
>
> This is a 1.7 GHz P4 processor, with two sound cards: Intel 82801
> (ICH4), and Creative Labs SB-Live! using emu10k1 driver. Booting with
> the i386 espeakup iso from your web page (20-Sep-2010) gives me the
> expected beep, but no audio after pressing enter. I waited a very long
> time, tried both output jacks, double-checked the speaker volume, etc.,
> but no audio. Substituting an archlinux talking installer CD and
> pressing the restart button brought up the talking arch install just
> fine.
>
> Sorry I have no help here to look at the screen.
>
> Chuck
>
>

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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi,

If I can be of help I'll do what I can, but right now there's no easy
way to get a file out of that box and onto this one where it might be
emailed. I was about to install arch on it, and thought I'd give the
debian installer with espeakup a shot first. So I'll hold off for a
while and see if I can be of help in some way.

But even if the Debian installer can be made to work with software
speech, I will still eventually put arch on this little box. 

Chuck


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:42:42PM -0300, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> Hi Chuck:
> 
> My soundcard is very close to yours, an Intel 82801 (ICH8), and I
> also got no sound as I reported earlier.
> 
> BTW, I've just tested the espeakup-amd64 image using my pendrive,
> with no luck as well.
> 
> I have e-mailed Samuel in private with the output of the amixer and
> lsmod commands from my machine. Lets wait....
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Em 12/10/2010 18:52, Chuck Hallenbeck escreveu:
> >Samuel,
> >
> >This is a 1.7 GHz P4 processor, with two sound cards: Intel 82801
> >(ICH4), and Creative Labs SB-Live! using emu10k1 driver. Booting with
> >the i386 espeakup iso from your web page (20-Sep-2010) gives me the
> >expected beep, but no audio after pressing enter. I waited a very long
> >time, tried both output jacks, double-checked the speaker volume, etc.,
> >but no audio. Substituting an archlinux talking installer CD and
> >pressing the restart button brought up the talking arch install just
> >fine.
> >
> >Sorry I have no help here to look at the screen.
> >
> >Chuck
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
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> 
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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Tyler Littlefield]

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On 10/12/2010 5:05 PM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I can be of help I'll do what I can, but right now there's no easy
> way to get a file out of that box and onto this one where it might be
> emailed. I was about to install arch on it, and thought I'd give the
> debian installer with espeakup a shot first. So I'll hold off for a
> while and see if I can be of help in some way.
> 
> But even if the Debian installer can be made to work with software
> speech, I will still eventually put arch on this little box. 
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:42:42PM -0300, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
>> Hi Chuck:
>>
>> My soundcard is very close to yours, an Intel 82801 (ICH8), and I
>> also got no sound as I reported earlier.
>>
>> BTW, I've just tested the espeakup-amd64 image using my pendrive,
>> with no luck as well.
>>
>> I have e-mailed Samuel in private with the output of the amixer and
>> lsmod commands from my machine. Lets wait....
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Em 12/10/2010 18:52, Chuck Hallenbeck escreveu:
>>> Samuel,
>>>
>>> This is a 1.7 GHz P4 processor, with two sound cards: Intel 82801
>>> (ICH4), and Creative Labs SB-Live! using emu10k1 driver. Booting with
>>> the i386 espeakup iso from your web page (20-Sep-2010) gives me the
>>> expected beep, but no audio after pressing enter. I waited a very long
>>> time, tried both output jacks, double-checked the speaker volume, etc.,
>>> but no audio. Substituting an archlinux talking installer CD and
>>> pressing the restart button brought up the talking arch install just
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> Sorry I have no help here to look at the screen.
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cleverson
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
Try this:
amixer sset Speaker 80% on
it may start with speech muted/lower
or something, the output of amixer should show the volume levels/mute

- -- 
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:12:23PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> 
> Try this:
> amixer sset Speaker 80% on
> it may start with speech muted/lower
> or something, the output of amixer should show the volume levels/mute
> 
> - -- 
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield

Hi Tyler,

No way! We're talking about an installer that is in an unknown state
after the initial beep and a single enter keypress.  Debian is not like
arch, where you could log into root without audio feedback very easily,
and have a prompt available. I have never seen a Debian installer that
could do that. After all, arch boots fine, it's Debian that fails to
talk, and hence is in an unknown state.

Chuck

At least it's unknown to me! <smile>



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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Kerry Hoath]

This is easier than you think.
hit left-alt f2, then enter to open a root shell, then run tylor's command.
The root shell will come up at the first screen of the installer I 
believe someone correct me on this.

On 13/10/2010 7:24 AM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:12:23PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>>
>> Try this:
>> amixer sset Speaker 80% on
>> it may start with speech muted/lower
>> or something, the output of amixer should show the volume levels/mute
>>
>> - --
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>
> Hi Tyler,
>
> No way! We're talking about an installer that is in an unknown state
> after the initial beep and a single enter keypress.  Debian is not like
> arch, where you could log into root without audio feedback very easily,
> and have a prompt available. I have never seen a Debian installer that
> could do that. After all, arch boots fine, it's Debian that fails to
> talk, and hence is in an unknown state.
>
> Chuck
>
> At least it's unknown to me!<smile>
>
>
>

Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Kerry,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 05:50:55PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> 
> This is easier than you think.
> hit left-alt f2, then enter to open a root shell, then run tylor's command.
> The root shell will come up at the first screen of the installer I
> believe someone correct me on this.
> 

I will give this a try later. It would be neat if it works. Maybe
Tyler's suggestions will make a difference if I can get to a prompt.

Chuck


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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Samuel Thibault]

Kerry Hoath, le Wed 13 Oct 2010 17:50:55 +0800, a écrit :
> hit left-alt f2, then enter to open a root shell, then run tylor's command.

amixer is not provided on debian d-i images due to room contraints.

Samuel

Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Chuck Hallenbeck, le Tue 12 Oct 2010 17:52:23 -0400, a écrit :
> Booting with the i386 espeakup iso from your web page (20-Sep-2010)
> gives me the expected beep, but no audio after pressing enter.

Could you try again with the images I have just uploaded?  They fix
about with alsa's crazyness.

Samuel

Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Samuel,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:48:46AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could you try again with the images I have just uploaded?  They fix
> about with alsa's crazyness.
> 
> Samuel

Sure. I'll check it out and get back to you soon.

Chuck


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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi again,

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:53:53PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
> Sure. I'll check it out and get back to you soon.
> 
> Chuck

Same behavior as before. The iso is quite a bit larger, but no change
in its behavior. 

Both this one and the 20-Sep-2010 one do something a little surprising
though. Every other live CD I have ever used will lock the CD drive
while the system is running. The eject button is disabled. But with
both these espeakup images, I can eject the CD with the manual eject
button when enough time has elapsed to conclude it has failed. Not sure
if that's a clue, or unrelated to anything.

Chuck


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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

Hi Samuel,

Your latest image remains not speaking, however, it apparently no longer 
displays the "configure speech voices failed" message. After choosing 
locale, country and keyboard, it goes straight to the network settings, 
of course without speech.

Cheers,
Cleverson

Em 12/10/2010 21:19, Chuck Hallenbeck escreveu:
> Hi again,
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:53:53PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>> Hi Samuel,
>> Sure. I'll check it out and get back to you soon.
>>
>> Chuck
>
> Same behavior as before. The iso is quite a bit larger, but no change
> in its behavior.
>
> Both this one and the 20-Sep-2010 one do something a little surprising
> though. Every other live CD I have ever used will lock the CD drive
> while the system is running. The eject button is disabled. But with
> both these espeakup images, I can eject the CD with the manual eject
> button when enough time has elapsed to conclude it has failed. Not sure
> if that's a clue, or unrelated to anything.
>
> Chuck
>
>

-- 
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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Samuel Thibault]

Cleverson Casarin Uliana, le Tue 12 Oct 2010 22:17:39 -0300, a écrit :
> Your latest image remains not speaking, however, it apparently no longer 
> displays the "configure speech voices failed" message. After choosing 
> locale, country and keyboard, it goes straight to the network settings, 
> of course without speech.

It seems that the default alsa driver sound level is unfortunately 0.
William, we need to make something about this in espeakup. Testing it is
simple: on a standard linux system with speakup, set the alsa main
volume to zero, then start espeakup, no sound. The "espeak" volume is
only for its generated wave, it doesn't have any effect on the actual
alsa volume parameter...

Samuel

Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Samuel Thibault]

Chuck Hallenbeck, le Tue 12 Oct 2010 20:19:06 -0400, a écrit :
> Same behavior as before. The iso is quite a bit larger, but no change
> in its behavior. 

Ok, I guess the issue is with the volume level.  I guess you have no
hardware way to increase it?

> Both this one and the 20-Sep-2010 one do something a little surprising
> though. Every other live CD I have ever used will lock the CD drive
> while the system is running. The eject button is disabled. But with
> both these espeakup images, I can eject the CD with the manual eject
> button when enough time has elapsed to conclude it has failed. Not sure
> if that's a clue, or unrelated to anything.

It's unrelated: it's just that this image gets completely loaded into
RAM and thus the CD is not needed at all during installation.

Samuel

Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Kerry Hoath]

Alsa mutes all volume channels by default.
The problem is that with high definition audio devices there is often a 
separate volume for Speakers, Headphone etc.
You need to raise the Master, PCM and whatever you are using in the way 
of headphones or speakers.
Regards, Kerry.

On 17/10/2010 8:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Chuck Hallenbeck, le Tue 12 Oct 2010 20:19:06 -0400, a écrit :
>> Same behavior as before. The iso is quite a bit larger, but no change
>> in its behavior.
>
> Ok, I guess the issue is with the volume level.  I guess you have no
> hardware way to increase it?
>
>> Both this one and the 20-Sep-2010 one do something a little surprising
>> though. Every other live CD I have ever used will lock the CD drive
>> while the system is running. The eject button is disabled. But with
>> both these espeakup images, I can eject the CD with the manual eject
>> button when enough time has elapsed to conclude it has failed. Not sure
>> if that's a clue, or unrelated to anything.
>
> It's unrelated: it's just that this image gets completely loaded into
> RAM and thus the CD is not needed at all during installation.
>
> Samuel
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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

BTW, mine is a high definition Intel soundcard, and  Samuel's images 
from last 14th don't speak here yet.

Cleverson
Em 17/10/2010 05:52, Kerry Hoath escreveu:
>
> Alsa mutes all volume channels by default.
> The problem is that with high definition audio devices there is often a
> separate volume for Speakers, Headphone etc.
> You need to raise the Master, PCM and whatever you are using in the way
> of headphones or speakers.
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> On 17/10/2010 8:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Chuck Hallenbeck, le Tue 12 Oct 2010 20:19:06 -0400, a écrit :
>>> Same behavior as before. The iso is quite a bit larger, but no change
>>> in its behavior.
>>
>> Ok, I guess the issue is with the volume level. I guess you have no
>> hardware way to increase it?
>>
>>> Both this one and the 20-Sep-2010 one do something a little surprising
>>> though. Every other live CD I have ever used will lock the CD drive
>>> while the system is running. The eject button is disabled. But with
>>> both these espeakup images, I can eject the CD with the manual eject
>>> button when enough time has elapsed to conclude it has failed. Not sure
>>> if that's a clue, or unrelated to anything.
>>
>> It's unrelated: it's just that this image gets completely loaded into
>> RAM and thus the CD is not needed at all during installation.
>>
>> Samuel
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Kerry Hoath, le Sun 17 Oct 2010 16:52:22 +0800, a écrit :
> Alsa mutes all volume channels by default.
> The problem is that with high definition audio devices there is often a 
> separate volume for Speakers, Headphone etc.
> You need to raise the Master, PCM and whatever you are using in the way 
> of headphones or speakers.

Could you try my updated image on
http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/espeakup/
?  It contains the usual startup unmute scripts shipped by alsa.

Samuel

Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Samuel Thibault]

mike cutie and maia, le Thu 06 Jan 2011 19:49:13 -0600, a écrit :
> Is this the one with that scripts dated jan 2011?

Yes.

Samuel

RE: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Albert Sten-Clanton]

Samuel, your new image fixed the no-sound problem I wrote to you about.  Is
there a way to raise the volume, though?  Thanks!

Al 

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On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:36 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.;
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Subject: Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

Hello,

Kerry Hoath, le Sun 17 Oct 2010 16:52:22 +0800, a écrit :
> Alsa mutes all volume channels by default.
> The problem is that with high definition audio devices there is often 
> a separate volume for Speakers, Headphone etc.
> You need to raise the Master, PCM and whatever you are using in the 
> way of headphones or speakers.

Could you try my updated image on
http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/espeakup/
?  It contains the usual startup unmute scripts shipped by alsa.

Samuel
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Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Samuel Thibault]

Albert Sten-Clanton, le Fri 07 Jan 2011 11:17:17 -0500, a écrit :
> Samuel, your new image fixed the no-sound problem I wrote to you about.

Ok, so at least even if it broke somewhere, it unbroken somewhere else
:)

> Is there a way to raise the volume, though?  Thanks!

You can use amixer on the second console.

Thanks for the report,
Samuel

RE: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

[Albert Sten-Clanton]

"Ok, so at least even if it broke somewhere, it unbroken somewhere else
:)"

For me, it was just a fix with no new breakage. :-)

Thanks for the pointer on using amixer.

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 11:56 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: No sound with espeakup-i386.iso

Albert Sten-Clanton, le Fri 07 Jan 2011 11:17:17 -0500, a écrit :
> Samuel, your new image fixed the no-sound problem I wrote to you about.

Ok, so at least even if it broke somewhere, it unbroken somewhere else
:)

> Is there a way to raise the volume, though?  Thanks!

You can use amixer on the second console.

Thanks for the report,
Samuel
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