Hi Janina, Thanks for sharing this, but I'm still puzzled. How do I tell speakup, or espeakup, or espeak, to use a card other than the default card0? I don't see how assigning audio interfaces to particular index values accomplishes that. Chuck On Sat, 11 May 2013, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > > -- Chuck in Hudson.
