Re: Bullseye Installer Fails to find soundcard

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 1/15/2022 6:04 AM, David J. J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> I'm just a user.  I've been trying to install Bullseye since the Release Candidates, no luck.
>
> The accessible text installer fails to find my sound card.  I think my sound card is the
> second one that Debian finds, so I select that.
>
> I do get sound in console once installed, but a blind person would not be able to install
> as there is no sound, unless they had a braille device.
>
> I've contacted debian-accessibility and debian-boot, but I just don't know where the problem
> is, Samual from debian-accessibility says it's alsa, but I'm not a programmer, or developer, I'm
> just a user.
>
> I've spent hundreds of hours trying to install Debian Bullseye.  The last release of Debian Buster
> installs perfectly, it detects my sound card, I have sound during installation, and upon reboot.
>
> But suddenly in Debian Bullseye, something has changed. No sound during accessible text installtion.
>
> I don't know who to report this bug to.

Looks like a ticket is already opened 'Re: Bug#1002976:
installation-reports: Installer Fault Accessibility No Screen Reader Heard'.

This thread is also on the debian-accessibility and the debian-boot lists.

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John Doe