Am 12.05.2021 um 12:10 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
Normally if you install with speech, the levels during the installer (which apparently with vmware may need to get bumped thanks to the speakup shortcut) will get propagated. So you were actually talking about the volume of the orca speech at the lightdm session banner? Please always be really precise when reporting bugs, otherwise it's a pain to try to divine which information we are missing.
Sorry if that was not clear, I thought I was specific enough. I'll try to explain better in future ;-).
Now, after a reboot of the new installed VM, a file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state does exist. But still volume is to low to hear the speech output.Sure, the file is just recording the level that you are getting by default from the sound card driver.
OK. but why did I not have this volume problem before? I have not tested it, but I can't remember this problem with Debian Buster. I always got systems where volume was loud enough to start working with Orca without a problem and without the need to increase the volume manualy.
If you like I can install a fresh Debian Buster to reproduce if the same problem does occure or not.
Ciao, Schoepp