Re: Debian Buster installer and speech issues

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Didier Spaier, le mer. 24 avril 2019 14:14:46 +0200, a ecrit:
> On 24/04/2019 10:35, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Didier Spaier, le mer. 24 avril 2019 12:20:08 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > What do you mean by "told it would tried other cards"? What _exactly_
> > did it write? Otherwise I'm not sure what exactly you refer to, that's
> > how a way for me to be able to debug anything.
> 
> Display:
> No sound cards detected after 3 seconds... 
> No sound cards detected after 4 seconds... 
> No sound cards detected after 5 seconds... 
> No sound cards detected after 6 seconds... 
> No sound cards detected after 7 seconds...
> No sound cards detected after 8 seconds...
> No sound cards detected after 9 seconds...
> Waiting for 9 more seconds for any other card...

Ok, so it did find a card (after 9sec initialization...)

> Then choice of language.

Without audible speech, I guess?
Is espeakup running?

> output of "amixer scontrols -d 0":
> Simple mixer control 'Master',0
> Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
> Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
> Simple mixer control 'PCM',0

Ok, so nothing too fancy.

> Output of "amixer scontents -d 0"
> TBH, too much text to note on a paper
> (I tried to mount ahrd disk partition /dev/sdb2 on /mnt, didn't work)
> but from a running system, attached.

The running system version is not useful, however, since it's the levels
as d-i gets them that we want. Could you report at least the levels for
Master/Headphone/Speaker/PCM? Something like:

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Mono: Playback 57 [66%] [-22.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]

Here you see that my Speaker level is off (which is expected on my
installed system).

> In a running system though I have irq 37 instead of  irq 27.
> Could that come into play?

That shouldn't harm.

> echo /sys/class/sound/card*/id
> /sys/class/sound/card0/id
> 
> cat /sys/class/sound/card*/id
> PCH

Ok, could you also post

cat /var/run/espeakup.card

?

Samuel