USB Sound Cards and Lenny

[Jackie McBride]

I certainly haven't been able to get mine to work under vinux.

On 11/13/10, Martin McCormick <martin at x.it.okstate.edu> wrote:
> 	I would like to try one of those USB sound cards on a
> Dell laptop running Vinux. The existing sound card does
> everything it was supposed to do and does the Vinux Speakup
> application just fine but I would like to be able to feed the
> speech to headphones and play sound files through the USB card
> to make it possible to play them to external speakers but not
> make the other listeners hear the screen reader. One would hope
> that the USB card might also have a line-in connector for
> recording from a radio or other sound source.
>
> 	Do most USB sound cards work on such a system? I have
> found RS-232 dongles that are useless under Linux but work with
> Windows because of driver issues and others work just like a
> native serial port on the mother board.
>
> 	If it works right, it should show up as a second sound
> device under alsa, play the sound files and stimulate the
> economy with its purchase. If not, it will get slightly warm to
> the touch, stimulate the economy and do absolutely nothing else.
> I would, of course,  prefer it to do actual useful work.
>
> 	Any ideas as to what to avoid or how to tell what might
> work?
>
> 	Thank you.
>
> Martin McCormick
>
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