Yes, and I just got beat up (LOLP in two places for not reporting something as a bug, but I'm very conservative on bug reporting until I am absolutely positively sure I'm not the one with the bug. Debuggers' time is more valuable than mine will ever be, so I am wont to waste their time on what's really a user problem, and the computer gods know I've certainly been at the root of more than a few of those. On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:03:03 +0000, you wrote: >Glad you got it going. > >Probably would be better if nothing was muted by default so that it >should come up with sound enabelled. > >I got caught with the same issue a few years ago but probably best to >report it as a bug. > > > >On 31/12/15 16:40, Steve Matzura wrote: >> Yes, I absolutely did have *EVERYTHING* muted and didn't know it until >> I learned (a little) how to use amixer. I'm still a little confused >> about one thing: amixer thinks the main sound card's output is a >> headphone jack, so when I set the volume for 'Front' to 100%, I got no >> results, but when I set pvolume to 100% for Headphone, on it came. Now >> that I think about it a little, I've seen something similar to this in >> Windows. These Realtek sound chips have an annoying property where >> they show two devices with the same name, something like "Realtek >> High-Definition Speakers". One is the jack on the back of the machine, >> one is the internal speaker of that machine. However, when you set the >> default device to one of those two high-definition devices and plug a >> headphone into the headphone jack, with the internal speaker setting, >> it doesn't switch over, but with the other one, it does, and the >> default device now changes to "Realtek High-Definition Headphones". so >> I think what's going on in the Linux interpretation of all of this is >> that Linux calls the main output jack "Headphone" because it can be >> switched to a front-panel connection simply by plugging something into >> it. I have tried the other jacks on the back panel, of which there are >> four others (not including the SPDIF/optical connector, which looks >> and feels nothing like an eighth-inch audio jack), and gotten no >> response, so I'm 99% sure I'm plugged in to the right thing and have >> the right control volume set in amixer. >> >> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:13:07 +0000, you wrote: >> >>> Just a thought, >>> >>> Do you have sound working? >>> >>> running "speaker-test" should give you white noise if sound is working. >>> >>> You may have some of the sound controls muted. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 31/12/15 12:08, Steve Matzura wrote: >>>> I just installed a fresh Jessie yesterday. The install was assisted by >>>> Speakup, which I started at the install screen main menu by pressing >>>> s<ENTER>. I was quite impressed with the way it all worked, with one >>>> silly exception: There was a screen with 78 choices, one per line, and >>>> I couldn't figure out how to scroll the screen backward to read the >>>> first and second screens of choices, so I just went with the default >>>> choice, which turned out to be the correct one for me for the question >>>> being asked. Very impressive. No Orca, no forms, just straight CLI. I >>>> love CLI. >>>> >>>> Now then, the system is up and running, there's no desktop, I boot >>>> directly to the login prompt, and now I want to get Speakup working on >>>> the console terminals. Someone named Samuel from Debian accessibility >>>> told me I should install the espeakup package, but apt-get can't find >>>> it. What'd I do wrong? And why would I even need to be doing this >>>> since obviously Speakup is included in the install, you'd think, or at >>>> least I did, that it would already exist on the system and be able to >>>> be run. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance for any and all assistance and advice. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Speakup mailing list >>>> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
