Hi, Chuck: Hoping this finds you well ... I also have several audio devices on each of my computers, even the laptop. It's perfectly possible to configure Linux to assign them predictable alsa device designations. Here's how I do it on Fedora 18. Your distro may do it a bit differently, but I suspect the basics remain the same. Before I lay this out, however, let me point out that I believe there's an even better way that I haven't yet stopped to learn involving udev configuration. Here's my pre udev approach ... Sometime ago Fedora moved /etc/modprobe.conf to a set of files in /etc/modprobe.d/. In that directory I have two files of interest: 1.) blacklist.conf In this file I find it important to comment out Fedora's default silencing of the system beep, so that the line now reads: #blacklist snd-pcsp 2.) local.conf Here's the complete contents of this file from my main machine. alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-2 snd-usb-audio options snd-card-2 index=2 options snd-usb-audio index=2 alias snd-card-3 snd-usb-audio options snd-card-3 index=3 options snd-usb-audio index=3 alias snd-card-4 snd-hdsp options snd-card-4 index=4 options snd-hdsp index=4 alias snd-card-5 snd-ice1724 options snd-card-5 index=3 options snd-ice1724 index=5 alias snd-card-6 snd-pcsp options snd-card-6 index=6 options snd-pcsp index=6 As I'm sure you've noticed, the two usb devices aren't differentiated. Fortunately, they do tend to load in the same order for me, but this where udev should be of help once I get my head around how to use it. hth Janina Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > Hi, > > I am using speakup with espeakup and espeak, on a system with several audio > devices supported by alsa. I would like to preserve the motherboard device > as the default card0, and direct screen reader output to a different > interface, such as card1 or card2. Is there a way to do this? Would > speechdispatcher be able to do it? > > Thanks > > > -- > > Chuck in Hudson. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
