Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote: > The only kind of strange thing is that mplayer loads with oss instead of > alsa. I can force alsa with -ao alsa but then I seem to always get a > 48000Hz sample rate where it varies with the default oss according to what is > being played or streamed. At any rate, at least I'm not having conflicts > between my audio playing and my screenreading. Just out of idle curiosity, do you have a ~/.asoundrc file? I had one, and I wasted way too many hours of my life fighting with it. I had some of the ALSA issues that you describe, and they went away when I deleted ~/.asoundrc. As an aside, you might consider using /dev/synth for your talking cron scripts. This is doubly advantageous. If you ever decide to go back to using a hardware synthesizer, your scripts will speak through it. -- Chris
