Bug#744849: espeakup: usb speakers inaccessible on use and during installation
Package: espeakup
Version: 1:0.71-14
Severity: important
Tags: d-i upstream
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation? failed modifying configuration to have espeakup use usb speakers on an already installed system and failed to get debian installer espeakup to find usb speakers and use them.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)? Tried several modifications of /etc/default/espeakup all failed. Tried installation using s command at boot prompt too.
* What outcome did you expect instead? I expected to be able to switch from conventional stereo speakers by modifying configuration file and expected espeakup would find those usb speakers when I tried an install, archlinux has no trouble with this at all for whatever reason. Also documentation in /etc/default/espeakup for this case was missing.
Script started on Thu 10 Apr 2014 06:04:24 AM EDT
jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=CK804
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=CK804
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=CK804,DEV=0
NVidia CK804, NVidia CK804 - IEC958
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
default:CARD=Audio
USB Audio, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Audio
USB Audio, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
USB Audio, USB Audio
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
USB Audio, USB Audio
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
USB Audio, USB Audio
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
USB Audio, USB Audio
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
USB Audio, USB Audio
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
USB Audio, USB Audio
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
USB Audio, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ exit
Script done on Thu 10 Apr 2014 06:05:21 AM EDT
The script file shows what sound equipment is on this machine and I don't know what to extract from here to put in that last export statement in /etc/default/espeakup. The fact that the debian installer also fails to find and use my usb speakers points at a larger problem though.
*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages espeakup depends on:
ii espeak 1.47.11-1
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libespeak1 1.47.11-1
espeakup recommends no packages.
espeakup suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/espeakup changed:
VOICE=en
-- no debconf information
jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
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