Try doing a 'journalctl' as root and look for Alsa or Pipewire errors
after boot.
On 9/12/25 6:10 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Hi, Just did another test and the same thing is happening on the
latest development version of the debian-installer so not sure what to
do at this point as I still have ssh and mate desktop access with
speech just no console sounds what so ever. Nick Gawronski
On 9/12/2025 3:15 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Hi, No speech what so ever. If I ssh into the system and run
alsamixer as root I get the error message cannot open mixer: Host is
down. If I login to the mate desktop I get orca working but no
speech if I switch back to the console. Nick Gawronski
On 9/12/2025 1:12 PM, Chevelle wrote:
On this system I have 'espeakup' and 'speakup-tools' installed. Are
you sure you don't have speech in the console, or is it just
delayed. If you login without speech, does it eventually start
talking? Go into the Mate/Sound preferences and set the volume to
about 65,000.
On 9/12/25 11:37 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Hi, After doing some test installations it appears that now sound
is totally broken in the console even when on a fresh installation
on a system where previously sound worked regardless of if you were
in the mate desktop and the console but only one at a time now I
only get speech in the mate desktop and in the console the same
thing no speech and the alsa mixer is down when I try to run it.
What information can I provide to help resolve these issues? Nick
Gawronski
On 9/11/2025 3:26 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Hi, I am not sure what update caused this issue to happen but now
if I boot into a console I get no speech from espeakup. If I try
espeakup or any console based audio program. I am able to boot
into the mate desktop by starting the lightdm service and orca
runs just fine but at a very low volume. Once I am in the mate
desktop I go to a terminal and run alsamixer and set it back to
%100 and then run as root alsactl store to save the settings and
again I have to do this over and over. If I ssh into my linux
system and run alsamixer when the mate desktop is not active and
run alsamixer as root I get the message that the mixer device is
down. When I also try to access the speakup console with control
and alt and f1 in the mate desktop I also get no speech. This is
why I usually have the mate desktop disabled as i have never
managed to get both espeakup and orca working when I would like to
do this. Other then a complete reinstallation what can I do to
fix this issue? Nick Gawronski
