To obtain older versions of Debian packages, turn to: http://snapshot.debian.net. For alsa, I put the following into my sources.list: deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool alsa-lib deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool alsa-utils deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool alsa-driver Then I did: aptitude update aptitude install libasound2=1.0.15-3 libasound-dev=1.0.15-3 alsa-utils=1.0.15-3 Best regards, Lukas Gregory Nowak writes ("Re: speech-dispatcher/speechd-up problems after dist-upgrade on debian testing"): > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:49:24PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Did you build from source, or were you able to downgrade using a deb > > package? If you downgraded via installing a deb package, then could > > you please point me to where I can obtain a 1.0.15-3 package from? Thanks.