Here, for the record, is the message I sent to the support address for
Talking Arch. I did solve the asound.state problem by reading the man page,
but as you can see, I did offer to help. In retrospect, I should have made
my interest clearer. What I didn't state outright is that I would be
willing to test later CD releases to make sure the problems have been
resolved. I did offer to send my amixer output and my asound.state. This
is one case where a public mailing list to discuss these types of problems
is really beneficial. Even though there aren't many Debian developers
working on accessibility, there is a public mailing list. I intend to set
up such a list for my live rescue CD.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Talking Arch has no speech
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:52:26 -0800
From: Tony Baechler <tony.baechler@xxxxxxxxx>
To: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,
The 2015.03.01 CD seems to boot fine as I get garbage through my DECtalk
Express. However, I get no speech through my sound card. I have two
different installs of Debian here which both work fine, so it isn't an
unsupported card. It's a Sound Blaster Audigy II. I think the problem is
there is a switch for analog which needs to be turned off. I can send you
my asound.state and/or amixer output if that helps. I know nothing about
Arch. Where does it store asound.state? I can copy it over from Debian if
I know where to put it. Also, it completely screwed up my serial
synthesizer to the point that it quit talking and my Windows screen reader
doesn't talk now. I understand that serial detection is necessary for
Braille displays, but perhaps there is a better way to go about it. Again,
Debian works fine here and doesn't have that problem. If you could tell me
where asound.state is, that would be helpful. I know the CD booted because
"halt" shut the system down as expected. Thanks for your help and making
the CD available. I'm interested in trying it if I can get speech working.
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