Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: a11y User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Maintainer, some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. This firmware is packaged under 'firmware-sof-signed'. For reference, you might want to look at the ITP [1]. As expected, selecting the "Speech Synthesis" option of the Debian Installer fails on computer that have such sound cards, since the required firmware is missing. I tried it with my laptop. What happens is that the installer gets stuck straight from the beginning, prior it can show any kind of GUI. All I get is a black scree with the lines: Please wait while we probe your sound card(s)... No sound card detected after 3 seconds... No sound card detected after 4 seconds... And so on. I don't know if there's a timeout, after 30 seconds I switched off the laptop. I thought I could customize the ISO and add the firmware under the '/firmware' directory, but it's not that easy. The step that probes for sound cards is done in the initrd. I don't have a solution to propose, I am merely reporting the issue in case it's not a known issue yet. Cheers, Arnaud [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960788
