I would like to try one of those USB sound cards on a Dell laptop running Vinux. The existing sound card does everything it was supposed to do and does the Vinux Speakup application just fine but I would like to be able to feed the speech to headphones and play sound files through the USB card to make it possible to play them to external speakers but not make the other listeners hear the screen reader. One would hope that the USB card might also have a line-in connector for recording from a radio or other sound source. Do most USB sound cards work on such a system? I have found RS-232 dongles that are useless under Linux but work with Windows because of driver issues and others work just like a native serial port on the mother board. If it works right, it should show up as a second sound device under alsa, play the sound files and stimulate the economy with its purchase. If not, it will get slightly warm to the touch, stimulate the economy and do absolutely nothing else. I would, of course, prefer it to do actual useful work. Any ideas as to what to avoid or how to tell what might work? Thank you. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list