It's amazing how quickly one can go from hero to zero inthis game
I guess that’s what FS snapshots are for. <grin> Anything goes wrong? you just roll-back to the last working state and everything is intact.
Best regards
Rastislav
Dňa 26. 2. 2024 o 19:52 Martin
McCormick napísal(a):
I am really good at getting in my own way when it comes to keeping orca speaking. The system running orca is a HP Pavillion desktop which is about 2 years old, running debian bullseye and it sure cooks right along very nicely except for sound where it's just one thing after another. With this version of debian, I installed it from a debian iso image placed on a usb thumb drive and it talks if you type the lower-case s as soon as you hear the beep from the piezo buzzer on the mother board. I wanted to adjust some sound levels yesterday so I fired up alsamixer which I am not familiar with. Alsamixer is not a GUI application as such as uses a curses-based terminal interface and can be accessed via command-line terminal. I logged in to mate's terminal and commanded alsamixer to start using card 0 or -c 0. I am not sure what I did but about 2 or 3 key strokes in to the session, I typed the Enter key and, poof! voice output was gone. I finally logged in to that system from another Linux box in text-based command-line mode, downloaded a backup of /var and selected var/lib/alsa/asound.state which had that file in it. After copying /var/lib/alsa/asound.state from the backup, I did sudo alsactl store which seems to have stored this older version of asound.state then I rebooted. I was able to log in as the login still talked but as soon as I entered the password, everything went silent again. I finally got on the Linux box that has no GUI and ssh'd into the gnome system and then called alsamixer as me and that's when I realized more how this all works. One is supposed to press F3 to be in the playback setup mode. Apparently the function keys like F3 send a terminal code sequence that is interpreted as F3 and then I noticed that the volume slider for Master volume was all the way down to 0. The Up and Down arrows move that slider so I moved it up and finally my orca console started speaking again. One then presses Escape once and alsamixer closes. Is there a faster and better way I could have done this? If I hadn't had a second Linux system, I'd still be messing with it and the curses would be more than just in the command-line interface. It's amazing how quickly one can go from hero to zero in this game but finally I seem to have the talking orca terminal back. Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.
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