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

[Tony Baechler]

On 4/6/2012 10:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Oops, looking at the utils.sh script, it is explicitly set to on there.
> Do we know exactly why this is so?  It looks like it poses problems on
> Tony's machine.  I can see in the changelog on 19th Sep 2005:
>
> initscript: Don't set "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack"
> The driver should set this up properly
>
> So perhaps we should just re-comment that part to let the driver
> automatically enable the proper way?  It is a quite serious bug in this
> case, because without software speech, makes the installer becomes
> unusable for Tony on that machine.


Yes, and any other machine with an Audigy or Audigy II card also has this 
problem.  Google shows many pages of people having the same or similar 
problems.  Even when installing with hardware speech, I still get no sound 
when booting into the new system.  Old Sound Blaster cards (before the 
Audigy line) don't seem to have this problem.  I'm not sure about newer 
Creative sound cards.  This isn't a problem just on my machine.  If I wasn't 
already aware of the issue, I would assume that either software speech is 
broken or my sound card isn't supported.  Who knows how many blind people 
would give up on Debian because of this.  The Ubuntu live CD doesn't seem to 
have this problem.

Thank you for looking into this.