You may need to run spd-conf as user and make sure espeak or espeak-ng is pointed at correct sound resources in order for that to work. Alternatively, fenrir may solve the speech problem for tty1-tty6.
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Hello, > > I've had a while to try to get debian 11.0.0 installed and I wanted to > give a status report. > > First the most important part, I found a work around. > > If you select "MATE" instead of "Default" in the upper right corner, > you can log in with your username. > > I compared the current 'AMD Netinst iso with the last 10.10.0 installer. > This is the last Buster installer. > > In 10.10.0 everything works fine, sound card is selected correctly, > all menus are read correctly, the only thing that doesn't work is > Shift Pg-Up and Shift Pg-Down screen review so the first half of the > installer screen can't be seen in both 10.10.0 and in 11.0.0. > > In software package selection "print server" is one of the options in > Buster, but it is not an option inn Bullseye. > > Everything works well until booting into the system, the system goes > into an infinite loop when putting the user password in. > > Here's the work around, select "Mate" instead of "Default" in the > upper right of the log in screen, and it will work. > > firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso Installer. > > The installer knows I have two sound cards, but won't speak when I > select the second sound card but will boot into the installed system > speaking. > In other words, the install is inaccessible and has to be done by > someone who can see the small characters on the screen. > > Just like 10.10.0 screen review is broken, shift pg-up and > shift-pg-down do not work. > > Boots into Mate speaking, but all other consoles are not speaking even > after boot. That is TTY 1 to TTY6 do not speak. > > I installed htop and found that espeakup is running as is > speech-dispatcher, but there is speech in MATE because Orca is running > but none in console except if MATE is not running. > > I haven't tried to install another desktop environment to see if the > problem is related to mate or is just something different. > > Best wishes, > David > >
