Hi, Emacspeak will work on any soundcard that Linux supports. One quick and durty way to configure and test your sound system is to run sndconfig and run through that dialog box. It will attempt to find your sound device play a wave file, and then a midi file if it finds your midi channel. For hardware issues it will help to have a list of your hardware on hand such as make, moddle, and brand. Start a little note book of what kind of modem you have, what soundcard you have, monitor, and so on. Also flag any hardware device that says winmodem, or windows anything in it's name. Some of that trash is designed specifically for the Windows operating system only. Remember we live in a rather bias world where most computer specialists are ignorant about Linux, and most PC manufacturers won't help you if you put Linux on your computer. So lists such as this one come in handy, and learning to take notes is an emence help down the road. Hth.
