Re: buster rc2 install resultsn
Two voices heard in mate, I hear sound saying ok once before orca boots
and turns on but don't know the source of that spoken ok.
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:10:17
> From: Didier Spaier <didier@slint.fr>
> To: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>,
> Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
> Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: buster rc2 install resultsn
>
> Hi,
>
> Jude: are there two voices heard in console mode or in Mate?
>
> I ask as during installation the id of the selected card is stored in
> /var/run/espeakup.card, I presume to be set as default for espeakup in
> the installed system
> Samuel, is this right?
>
> But only one card id is stored so I fail to see how this can trigger two
> voices.
>
> But I have no idea if this setting is also used when starting Speech
> Dispatcher for Orca in Mate, hence my question.
>
> Also Cyril, should I assume that RC2 included a fix for the issue that I
> raised in this post?
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2019/06/msg00019.html
>
> I have a doubt as this iso:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_rc2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-buster-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso
> is dated 2019-06-24 14:13
> and there are more recent post in the thread.
>
> Let me add that the issue is with a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 which is a
> rather common hardware. I am not directly in concern being neither blind
> nor a Debian user, but still I hope this can be fixed before the release
> for the benefit of others.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier
> 2019-06-24 14:13d
> On 6/28/19 6:32 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Hi Jude,
> >
> > Thanks for your mail.
> >
> > Cross-posting this answer to debian-accessibility@:
> >
> > Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> (2019-06-27):
> >> First the log files I tried to get the system to save in /mnt were not
> >> saved and those choices got made using the debian main menu.
> >> I checked the disk integrity and the disk was found to be valid.
> >> I installed the mate desktop using the defaults in software selection.
> >> On boot, I get two voices first louder and second softer and playing
> >> identical text shortly after the first voice. I don't know why this is
> >> and tried adjusting sound which cleared the problem when sound volume got
> >> increased in the mate menus until the next reboot.
> >
> > I think this might be a side effect of our trying hard to detect each
> > and every sound card, reading a prompt using all of them in turn, so
> > that users can press Return when they hear something. Maybe some state
> > in the sound card driver changes while iterating, which triggers this
> > difference in volumes?
> >
> > Just wild-guessing as I'm no sound expert?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
>
>
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