Hi Adam, When I recently installed RC3 I also included an install of alsa-oss-RC1, which was the latest oss simulator available. It is working fine here with my sblive card. I had to use three modprobe commands in my modules.conf file: one for snd-emu10k1 (required by the sblive), a second for snd-mixer-oss, and a third for snd-pcm-oss. Do you have all three of those (using the right choice for your awe64)? Chuck > Most of the odd behavior from Alsa comes when using the OSS emulation. > For example, Speak Freely uses the OSS emulation, and so do most programs > I have. My suspicion is that if it is indeed a bug in Alsa, it is in that > particular area. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (98% of Full) So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck