I went to /boot and did: grep -i alsa config-2.4.27-speakup and nothing comes back. Does that in itself mean something useful? i.e., there is nothing supported to be reported? Glenn You need to discover whether the kernel you have was compiled to support alsa. Find the configuration file (probably in /boot) that matches your kernel and do: grep -i alsa [filename] It would seem this is the threshold question.
