Cheryl, do you have amplified speakers? The kernel drivers for the sblive card aren't the best, but they did a good job for me in terms of sound loudness and quality for about a year and a half. Greg On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:31:45PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > As much as i'm hating trying to get all these mixer setting straight, I didn't > at all like the kernel drivers for my sblive. they made my sblive sound like a > cheap (cheap, not inexpensive) card, maybe because I wasn't using a mixer that > could handle them. on the other hand, I very much liked the oss package I > bought; I'm only trying to do alsa because I want to be on the speakfreely > reflector. > as for your trplayer program, there is probably a setting eluding you or > something; even with the problems i am having with my mixer settings for > recording, trplayer works fine with my .wav files. > However, I will say that for my soundblaster the kernel support was just fine; I > couldn't have been happier, so it depends on your card whether you would be > happywith the kernel support. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup