Started a new thread since the old one was hijacked a little bit.. At any rate, I have a current raspbian kernal (without OSS) and I have done the following: 1. disabled onboard audio (just blacklisting the KM for the device) 2. configured ALSA to use the C-Media device (URIx) for default audio 3. installed pulseaudio 4. installed osspd 5. start pulseaudio 6. stard osspd defining --adsp as dsp1 and as a padsp slave 7. start asterisk It's not perfect yet, but I do have ASL receiving audio from the URIx and transmitting audio through the URIx.. it's not clear audio.. maybe audio levels? Also note that there i an osspd-alsa but that doesn't work.. when I try that it causes the usb closed errors that I had posted in the other thread and ASL won't get past that point. Unfortunately the site is far enough away that I can't get to the device and put it on the bench.. a user is reporting that "tones" are what he is hearing after he unkeys If I can figure out the rest I'll be publishing all of the things that need to be edited to 'get-er-done' until then I'll be playing with it... any input/ideas/feedback is welcome!