I have two PCI cards. I want to change the default card, to card 1. To address this, I made an asound.conf file in /etc:: pcm.!default { type hw card 1 device 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 device 0 } It worked! Sound came through card 1, but no speech. Not even an error message. Speech didn't go through card 0 either. I'm using the voxin speakup connector, if it helps to diagnose the problem. What can I do to fix this?