[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#667743: debian-installer: No sound when using software speech

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> [2012-04-07 10:14 +0200]:

> Elimar Riesebieter, le Sat 07 Apr 2012 09:01:20 +0200, a écrit :
> > fixed 667743 1.0.25-1
> > thanks
> > 
> > * Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> [2012-04-06 19:21 +0200]:
> > 
> > > reassign 667743 alsa-utils-udeb
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Tony Baechler, le Fri 06 Apr 2012 04:41:11 -0700, a écrit :
> > > > When booting the CD, I press "s" and Enter to start software speech.
> > > > I get no sound.  I have to go to a shell and run amixer.  My sound
> > > > card is a Sound Blaster Audigy using the emu_10k1 module.
> > > > Apparently, "Audigy/Analog digital output jack" is set to on, which
> > > > effectively mutes the card.
> > > 
> > > Oops, looking at the utils.sh script, it is explicitly set to on there.
> > > Do we know exactly why this is so?
> > 
> > This is fixed while doing an Ubuntu merge last upload (1.0.25-1).
> 
> Err, in 1.0.25-1, 
> 
> switch_control "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack" on
> 
> is still there...

So this must be done by the driver itself. There is a passus in
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils where this switch_control can be explicitly
set off:
#       for CTL in \
#           "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack" \
#           "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack"
#       do
#           switch_control "$CTL" off
#       done

I don't have an Audigy handy for testing, though.

Elimar

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