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Re: Sound / voice issues



Hi, This is almost the same issue I have where I get orca working in the mate desktop after a fresh installation but no espeakup working in the console.  I installed Trixie using the latest RC3 installation image and get orca working fine once the login screen comes up and after I login to mate.  If I switch to the console with control and alt and f1 I get no speech what so ever and alsamixer as root says that the mixer device is down.  What is the best way to have this issue looked at as I am able to ssh into the system as root?  Nick Gawronski

On 9/20/2025 6:23 AM, Sebastian Humenda wrote:
Hi Sébastien

Sébastien Hinderer schrieb am 20.09.2025, 11:12 +0200:

Running an up-to-date Debian Unstable with the new
pipewire-system-services package installed, speech-dispatcher havinb
been adapted to this so that only one system-wide instance is running.
[…]
Issue 1: users can't play sound.

My understanding of the problem: Pipewire's socket,
/run/pipewire/pipewire-0, belongs to root.nogroup and is neither
readable nor writable by others. If I run the following command:
chmod o+rw /run/pipewire/pipewire-0
I suppose this should be discussed directly with the pipewire maintainers, as
their systemd unit should set the group to `audio`, IMO.

Because I lacked the time to resolve this properly, I currently use pipewire
as from the user session and configured speech-dispatcher to use pulse. With
pipewire-pulse, I can use the network transparency (or UNIX socket) to get audio from BRLTTY to my user pipewire. But that's more a hack which was quicker in my case.

If you come up with a solution, please let me know. I plan to write something
on the Wiki page, if noone is faster :).

Sebastian


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