Thanks for that info. I actully don't know what kind of sound card I have: the box was custom-built, but I gave the guy specs of the abilities I wanted, and left the hardware choices to him. If I switch from Fedora, I'll likely go to arch. One good thing is that I got the latest GRML 32-bit CD working on our Windows box. This allows me to run Clamav on that box to wipe out malware, while we figure out where to go now that Windows XP is unsupported. Al -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:22 PM To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: RE: Live CD silence, (was RE: new debian 7 install and speakup issues) One limitation with debian is it cannot use usb speakers for accessibility work. With archlinux, that's a different story even on 64 bit systems. Archlinux uses both whicher you plug into. Now you like me also have a stinky intel sound card in that 64 bit machine which is not multi-channel architecture in which case you're going to have problems with pulseaudio. If you can find one replace that sound card with an ensonicq 1370 and disable the intel sound card through the bios on the machine and enable the ensonicq and you may have better results. On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote: > Hi, Jude. > > Thanks for your suggestion. I'm sorry to say it didn't work. Nothing > I've tried gets sound with the 64-bit live CD on that machine, even > though a sighted guy said last week that the volume was showing at > full. No sound of Orca or Speakup, not testing for me. (The sighted > guy in question is even something of a Linux geek, by the way.) > > Again, thanks, though. > > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 12:57 PM > To: Linux for blind general discussion > Subject: Re: Live CD silence, (was RE: new debian 7 install and > speakup > issues) > > Hi, try aumix set Master 85% <enter> alsactl store <enter>. Then try > reboot and see if that's better. > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote: > > > Somewhat related to the topic below, I've so far been unable to get > > sound (either Speakup or Orca) using what I think is the 7.4 live > > Debian DVD on my 64-bit Linux machine. I did get Orca working using > > the 32-bit version on this Windows box, but not Speakup. Even when > > I determined that speakup_soft and apparently related modules were > > loaded by way of the lsmod and grep commands, there was no Speakup. > > > > Putting aside the Speakup problem for the moment, it seems that the > > sound card on this 32-bit machine works well enough with Debian but > > the one on my 64-bit Linux box does not. The Fedora live CDs are at > > low volume when I bring Orca up there, but there's enough sound that > > I can adjust settings in gnome. Vinux used to have a series of > > keystrokes that allowed you to get sound in such cases and then > > adjust the volume, but last time I looked I didn't find those. Is > > there anything like that for straight Debian? My purpose in all > > this is to try to kick a lot of tires on the Debian live CD before > > deciding whether > to keep what I've got or switch. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > > Al > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > > On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell > > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:54 PM > > To: Linux for blind general discussion > > Subject: Re: new debian 7 install and speakup issues > > > > You didn't get specific about your install, but let me guess what > > happened > > 1) you installed using a hardware synthesizer and didn't put the > > necessary parameters into lilo or grub when you had the opportunity, > > speakup.synth=ltlk would be one possible example > > 2) you used s at the boot prompt and got speech on the sound card > > all the way through the install, when you boot your system and the > > disk stops hit enter once and wait you may find you actually do have > > speech > after all. > > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, mike wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just installed a new debian 7 install and at spoke during speech > > > however once the system restarted speech stopped working any ideas? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list