I can't seem to get festival to use any card other than the default card 0. $ echo "here kitty kitty kitty" | aoss festival Segmentation fault Without aoss, it generates sounds to card 0. Even with the following .asoundrc. #--- START .asoundrc ---# pcm.atiixp { type hw card 0 } ctl.atiixp { type hw card 0 } pcm.atiixp-modem { type hw card 1 } ctl.atiixp-modem { type hw card 1 } pcm.usb_audio { type hw card 2 } ctl.usb_audio { type hw card 2 } defaults.pcm.card 2 pcm.dsp0 { type plug # pcm.slave atiixp pcm.slave usb_audio } ctl.dsp0 { type plug # pcm.slave atiixp pcm.slave usb_audio } #--- END .asoundrc ---# artsdsp -m festival also segfaults. esddsp -m surprisingly doesn't segfault. But the text gets all garbled like it's multi-threading several festivals at once. It starts saying several words at the same time. I don't normally run a sound daemon at all. Except when recording audio, I'll manually start jackd. Any tips to get festival to play nice with alsa? I want the sound to go to my usb device which is piped to my stereo. If only to annoy the cat. I could reindex the drivers, but I'd rather not go that route. Any other options? /proc/asound/cards 0 [IXP ]: ATIIXP - ATI IXP ATI IXP rev 2 with unknown codec at 0xd0003400, irq 16 1 [Modem ]: ATIIXP-MODEM - ATI IXP Modem ATI IXP Modem rev 2 at 0xd0003800, irq 16 2 [MobilePre ]: USB-Audio - MobilePre M Audio MobilePre at usb-0000:00:13.0-1, full speed Thanks, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user