On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:19:13 -0400
fsmithred via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> On 4/16/25 18:11, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 01:20:14PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 10:55:00AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
> >>
> >>> Here's a preliminary excalibur minimal-live iso for testing. I
> >>> had some problems getting the build to work and made some
> >>> changes, and I think it's good now. But I can only do limited
> >>> testing. I have no way to test the braille tty.
> >>
> >> I should be able to test braille and speech support tonight, and
> >> will reply back with the results.
> >
> > I was able to get to this sooner than expected, and can confirm both
> > braille and speech work for me like they used to in previous
> > versions with no problems.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
>
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for testing. I was encouraged by your report to try to get
> speech working here on my laptop that lists HDMI as card 0, and I
> managed to do it by creating /etc/asound.conf to set card 1 as the
> default. Is that how others deal with it?

Yes. Until you use either /etc/asound.conf (system) or ~/.asoundrc
(user) to define Card 0, then systems would (mostly) default to HDMI as
the default output.

Also, if you have a HDMI capable monitor/outlet, you
also needed to tick all the boxes offered in the mixer to get any (very
low) sound out of that monitor.

> would it be helpful to
> include a script to do that for the user?

My 2c is no. Mainly because there are so many sound hardware options
available these days. User need to gain an education on sound setup as
quickly possible.

There are any number of USB sound devices and some "docking
stations/USB expansion devices" also offer sound capacity.

So while my PCs usually go card 0 = HDMI and card 1 = Hardware and Card
3 = some USB device, it is not always the case.

YMMV, but I've found sound over any USB device to be unreliable.