"Rob Hudson" <captinlogic at gmail.com> writes: > I ran the talking arch cd but I got no speech. I ran alsamixer and hit m and up arrow a few times, tried > amixer set Master 100% > amixer set PCM 100% > amixer set Front 100% Here's an old trick I've used for debugging this sort of thing. It worked very nicely in the days of the floppy disk, because you could hear the floppy drive spin when you mounted it. If you have a spare flash drive handy, you can do the same thing with a flash drive, but there's a lot more guess-work involved. I don't know what your hardware configuration is like, but I'll assume that you only have one hard disk. If that's not the case, you'll have to change these instructions to match your config. Boot from the CD. Wait a while. There's no real way to be sure it has booted. A few tones from the console speaker would make a nice indicator, so I think I'll add that to the next CD release, just to help in these situations. Once the CD is booted, your hard drive should be /dev/sda. Plug in your flash drive. Hopefully, that'll show up as /dev/sdb. Like I said, guesswork. Now, mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt amixer > /mnt/amixer-output.txt umount /mnt Unplug, reboot, and hope that the amixer output got saved to the flash drive. -- Chris
