Re: [orca-list] Low speech and or sound volume in Linux

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

if memory serves, you use wire-plumber to configure and that's a separate
package.


On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Michael Weaver wrote:

> I installed Pipewire using sudo eopkg install Pipewire-ALSA.
> The package extracted only I don?t know how to configure it.
> I don?t see it as an app or a device when I go into sound and look at Teheran settings and I get command 
> not found when I try to run it from a terminal.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 16 Dec 2021, at 5:27 pm, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com> wrote:
> >
> > Probably pulseaudio does that.  If that can be uninstalled and you use
> > alsa or perhaps alsa with pipewire you may have better results.  This type
> > of failure is effecting sighted users on debian-user as well though with
> > them sound failures are way less critical.  Pulseaudio hasn't got a find
> > my speakers button in it and looses sound devices as soon as any are
> > turned off or disconnected and fails to recalculate sound devices
> > correctly the way you had them so it may pick a device for sound output
> > you didn't want and don't want.
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Michael Weaver wrote:
> > >
> > > I am havuing an issue in Linux where the speech and sound level drops when I switch devices from 
> > > earphones to speaker on my laptop so for example I may need privacy and people may not want to hear my 
> > > computer talk so I will plug in earphones but when I reboot and have sound coming from the speaker, it 
> > > is like speech turns down so I don?t know if I am at the loggin or desktop screen and because of this 
> > > issue, I may try to relaunch Orca, possibly not realising Orca may be running.
> > > I am running Solus Mate but I think this is even an issue in Ubuntu mate, maybe the only difference is 
> > > maybe you get a beep when adjusting the sound volume.
> > > F5 and F6, with or without the FN key rais and lower the speech volume, I think F6 with or with FN 
> > > raises the sound volume but I seem not to get sound feedback.
> > > I had this problem only a few minutes ago because i was using a wired headset.
> > > I had to press FN with F6 3 times after loggin and bring up the run dialogue with F2 after Loggin, even 
> > > I have used Alt Super User S and even set Orca in Preferences so as long as the volume doesn?t drop, I 
> > > get speech at Loggin and I get speech after entering my password.
> > > It is like it is not switching between earphones and laptop speaker properly.
> > > It is a Linux Laptop because I bought it from a computer supplier of Linux computers.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
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