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