Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

[Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, Yes that volume is fine once the main alsa volume or pulseaudio if 
orca is installed but if the volume by default is set very low then the 
speakup shortcuts have no use.  I tested this out on a freshly installed 
virtual machine and found that no speech was coming out of the sound 
card until I raised the alsa volume and with orca installed I had to use 
that long command to raise the pulseaudio volume then things worked just 
fine.  Volume should be at an acceptable level and not down so low that 
no one can hear it.  Nick Gawronski

On 4/3/2021 4:30 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Nick Gawronski, le sam. 03 avril 2021 16:24:02 -0500, a ecrit:
> > Why not just copy the installation volume settings over to the
> > installed system as this is what users would think would happen?
> See my previous mail: once you make espeakup control the card volume,
> you cannot tune it with a mixer any more since espeakup will try to
> override it over and over.
>
> So the question is raised: are people fine with the volume granularity
> that the speakup shortcut provide ?
>
> Samuel