Hello, I didn't load any of these modules explicitly. I notice that when I modprobe snd, however, all the problems seem to go away: /dev/mixer and /dev/snd/ are created, etc. I don't know why it didn't do this for me... As for mplayer, thanks for the tip. It's very useful. Yours, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <myrowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: Re: Debian Alsa > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Zachary Kline wrote: > >> Is there something fairly simple I'm missing? > > Probably. Are you loading snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss, and possibly > snd_seq_oss? I can't believe that Debian doesn't load Alsa modules > automatically! Even Slackware does that. BTW, to get Mplayer to use Alsa > by default, add this to your .mplayer/config. > > ao=alsa > > First, make sure that Mplayer supports Alsa by running the command > "mplayer -ao help" which will show what audio devices are compiled in. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >