Bug#1115864: installation-reports: sound works in mate but not on the console

[Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Here is a message from the debian-accessibility mailing list that might help so I am posting it here to have you look at it.

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Subject:	Re: Sound / voice issues
Resent-Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:59:15 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From:	debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:58:52 -0400
From:	Chevelle <cstrobel@purelymail.com>
To:	debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org

    After I read some of these messages again, I realized that my system
    was upgraded from Bookworm and not installed fresh.  This is why my
    audio works for speakup and Nick's doesn't.  I installed a Trixie
    system in a Virtual machine from.
    debian-13.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso.  It has the problem where speakup
    can't speak.  When I compare the systems I notice that files are
    missing in:
    
    /etc/alsa/conf.d
    My upgraded bookworm system has
    10-rate-lav.conf
    10-samplerate.conf
    10-speexrate.conf
    50-arcam-av-ctl.conf
    50-jack.conf
    50-oss.conf
    50-pulseaudio.conf
    60-a52-encoder.conf
    60-speex.conf
    60-upmix.conf
    60-vdownmix.conf
    98-usb-stream.conf
    99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example
    99-pulse.conf
    I was able to fix the virtual machine system by doing
    sudo apt install pulseaudio
    Now if you type 'amixer' it will work.
    sudo apt purge pulseaudio
    Now 'amixer' and speakup still worked.
    I'm not saying this is the correct solution, but it might be a
    work-around.
    If you read this message from the Debian forum he is asking about
    essentially the same problem, but nobody gave him an answer.
    https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=156266

On 9/22/2025 9:25 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> I did some test installations with Debian 13:
> When installing a console-only system, means without any desktop environment,
> speech works on the virtual console.
>
> Installing MATE makes speech working in the graphical MATE environment, but
> not on the virtual console, identical to your findings. 
> espeakup is running, but no output. 
> Here pipewire is additionally installed, while it is not in the console-only
> installation.
> So maybe alsa and pipewire don't work together correctly?
>
> Did that work with Debian 12?
>
>
> Holger
>
>
> Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com> wrote (Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:21:32 -0500):
> > Here are the new installation logs from the stable installation image 
> > with the same issue and the BTRFS choice works.
> >       
>
>
>