Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

[Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, That worked orca and espeakup are now talking normally.  Is there a 
way to find out why this was setup on my newly installed virtual 
machine?  Even without a desktop installed as I did a test virtual 
machine with no desktop I also get no espeakup.  Nick Gawronski

On 3/23/2021 6:52 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Samuel Thibault, le mer. 24 mars 2021 00:41:33 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Nick Gawronski, le mar. 23 mars 2021 18:28:43 -0500, a ecrit:
> > > Sink #0
> [...]
> > >      Volume: front-left: 2928 /   4% / -80.99 dB,   front-right: 2928 /   4%
> > > / -80.99 dB
> > >              balance 0.00
> > That's a terribly low volume.
> You could try to run
>
> sudo -u lightdm bash -c 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$UID pactl set-sink-volume 0 100%'
>
> Lightdm maintainers, does lightdm have shortcut to raise/lower desktop
> volume instead of having to tinker like this?
>
> Samuel