My config file produces the same lack of results with the same grep command, and yet my kernel is configured to use alsa, and alsa works fine with my sb live. But I am a Slackware user, not a Debian user. Chuck On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Glenn at home wrote: > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (70% of Full) "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal site www.hhs48.com, Download site www.mhcable.com/~chuckh