Re: no speech in the console but speech in the mate desktop under Trixie
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
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