Hi John,

We need the full output from the following commands:

lspci -vv

amixer

Also it would help if you can tell us which channels on your sound card
you usually unmute.

Thanks,

William

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:38:23PM +0100, John Robinson wrote:
> Hi William.  All my sound card channels were still muted when I started 
> Alsamixer.  In case it's relevant, the LSPCI utility describes my sound 
> card as follows:
> 
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High 
> Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
> 
> Alsamixer reports that my soundcard is of type HDA Intel and that the 
> audio chip itself is a Realtek ALC883.  If you need any clarification or 
> further details, please let me know.  I would very much appreciate any 
> further suggestions or advice you may have.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> John Robinson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/10/09 22:22, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:55:01PM +0100, John Robinson wrote:
> >    
> >> Hi William and many thanks for your message.  I tried exactly what you
> >> suggested, booting into the live DVD and typing 'gentoo
> >> speakup.synth=dectlk nox' at the boot prompt.  My Dectalk USB started
> >> speaking as it should, but after all Alsa modules were loaded, it
> >> announced that no Alsa configuration was present and that I'd have to
> >> unmute my card.  Sorry I couldn't record the exact message.  I then
> >> launched Alsamixer, unmuting all channels and turning them up to full
> >> volume.  After pressing 'Escape' to save the settings, I played an MP3
> >> file with Mplayer to ensure that my card was unmuted.  This file played
> >> successfully.  I next typed 'espeak "Hello,this is a test."' as you
> >> suggested.  There was no error, but I heard no speech at all.  Finally,
> >> I repeated the same procedure, but output the result to a Wave file.  I
> >> played this successfully in Mplayer.
> >>
> >> In conclusion, Espeak appears to be able to creat Wave files on my
> >> system, but does not appear to be able to speak through Alsa, even when
> >> all my sound card's channels are unmuted.  I would very much appreciate
> >> any advice you may have as to how to resolve this.
> >>      
> >
> >   Ok John, we found this issue, and we are working on building another
> >   image that will allow espeak to speak through alsa.
> >
> > The other thing I am concerned about though is your sound card.  When
> > you started alsamixer was everything still muted?
> >
> > William
> >
> >    
> 
> 

-- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@g.o