Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.2.4-1 Severity: important Tags: a11y Hello,
Since the move to systemd, the alsa-utils init script is not getting started at all any more. This broke setting the initial volumes of sound cards to hearable values, which was essential for speech accessibility of a Debian system. It seems some drivers initialize with a very low volume. We cannot chase all such drivers, that was precisely why the sanify_levels call from alsa-utils was made to just use amixer to set proper volumes of Master/PCM/etc. How to reproduce: - install Debian with a graphical desktop enabled, so that the alsa-utils gets automatically installed - at first reboot, run amixer, see that the Master/PCM/etc. levels are not at 80% - $ source /usr/share/alsa/utils.sh - $ sanify_levels 0 - run amixer, see that the Master/PCM/etc. levels are now properly set more or less at 80% For speech to be hearable in general immediately after installation, levels must be more or less at 80% at the second step, not only after calling sanify_levels by hand. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.12.0 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on: ii kmod 28-1 ii libasound2 1.2.4-1.1 ii libatopology2 1.2.4-1.1 ii libc6 2.31-11 ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.8-2 ii libncursesw6 6.2+20201114-2 ii libsamplerate0 0.2.1+ds0-1 ii libtinfo6 6.2+20201114-2 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 alsa-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages alsa-utils suggests: ii dialog 1.3-20201126-1 -- no debconf information -- Samuel <g> r: et la marmotte, elle écrit un papier IPDPS
