Re: Sound Parameters on Net Installer? Need speech for accessibility

[am_dxer@fastmail.fm]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017, at 07:24 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> am_dxer@fastmail.fm, on mar. 10 oct. 2017 10:32:19 -0400, wrote:
> > I have found that for some reason the Debian sound board selector prompt
> > does not work on some Broadwell machines.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > I copied the asound.conf generated by the Arch Linux sound board
> > selector to a flash drive and used that to do my Debian install.
> 
> And did it work?
> 
I was able to use the arch asound.conf to do the install once I coppied
it to the running debian installer and restarted espeakup
The card that emits sound is the one called   1 [PCH            ]:
HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
> > It would be interesting to know what Arch is doing differently.
> 
> I had a look at the scripts Jude pointed to, they use very different
> approaches to enumerating devices, so just comparing won't provide
> hints.
> 
> Could you report what is requested on
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Debian_installer_accessibility
> 
> from your Broadwell system so we have better insight as to what it looks
> like in there?
cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
                       HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf1210000 irq 50
  1 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                       HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1214000 irq 49
29 [ThinkPadEC     ]: ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
                       ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 
unknown

cat /sys/class/sound/card*/id
HDMI
PCH
ThinkPadEC
> 
> Without such kind of information, I'm just unable to do anything about
> the issue.
> 
> Samuel
>