Hello, all, I realized why messages I've sent here probably haven't been coming through, so I'm trying one more time. I've been trying to use alsaconf to set things up so I can use MIDI softsynths. When I ran alsaconf, it couldn't find my sound card, and my screen reader, which has been playing fine through my sound card so far, wouldn't come back up. I'm using a variant of Knoppix modified for blind accessibility, running on an e-machines 433MHZ PC with about 160 gig of ram. When I rebooted, the screen reader worked fine. What do I need to do to get alsa working straight? Thanks, Terrence
