The alsa mixer had master set just fine but the wave input device was 0. The thing was working all the time but no way to hear it. Only when I finally got my braille display working did I figure this out. However the key was not installing any desktops. If I selected even the default basic desktop the braille display didn't work with Speakup so I had no idea what was going on. With only software choices 8 10 and 11 the braille display stayed working after a restart from install. Then I could run alsamixer and found the second item, not the first wich for me was the master. The second item , single right arrow then space and up arrow was 0. Now it is cranked and Speakup is happy, me too. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup