any version of alsa will be gbetter than the kernel sound drivers because as stated in an earlier post from frank I think it was, the alsa drivers work independantly of the kernel so the timing issues that you have with the kernel when you were using the kernel sound drivers, shouldn't be a problem. I'm using alsa-driver-0.9.0beta7 on a 2.4.4 kernel. hth On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Deedra Waters wrote: > I guess my question is now, what's going to be the best version of alsa to > get, that won't cause my mp3s to stutter with speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver. "We realize we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." email: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435