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



On this system I have 'espeakup' and 'speakup-tools' installed. Are you sure you don't have speech in the console, or is it just delayed.  If you login without speech, does it eventually start talking?  Go into the Mate/Sound preferences and set the volume to about 65,000.



On 9/12/25 11:37 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
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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