On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:51:36 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Susan Cragin <susancragin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a USB soundcard that I have tried to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. > It doesn't work unless I set winecfg to oss instead of alsa. > Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? > How do I get alsa over USB? > Thanks, > Susan Cragin This sounds like a alsa problem wine does nothing with USB directly. Do Linux apps have sound ? If your using Ubuntu 8.0.4 it uses PulseAudio by default, which I have replaced with alsa.