From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 19:45:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BE716A417 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:45:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe04.swip.net [212.247.154.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B15B13C45A for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:45:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] Received: from [85.19.218.45] (account mc467741@c2i.net [85.19.218.45] verified) by mailfe04.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.10) with ESMTPA id 644802095; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:45:12 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:45:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710102145.32585.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: Andreas Davour Subject: Re: How do I use my USB headset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:45:14 -0000 On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Andreas Davour wrote: > Hi! > > I've bought a Logitech USB headset, and realized that since it's a USB > device it shows up as new audio unit with it's own mixer and other > devices. Now TeamSpeak and Skype, which are the programs I bought the > headset for, don't seem to like the idea of sending the audio output > anywhere except the first unit i.e. pcm0 which unfortunately is my built > in laptop audio device. > > Anyone know if I can somehow route all output/input to pcm1 or somehow > get the headset to work with Skype? > > I can use some programs, like 'mplayer' which take a lot of options like > to what device it shall render audio/video. But since not all programs > are that forgiving I had hoped there would be some kind of system wide > way to direct the audio system to use my USB device instead. > > Any suggestions? > > I am using KDE if that's important (and I have checked the volume on all > devices and it's not zero). > > /andreas Hi, If you are not using FreeBSD-7 current, something like the following might do the trick: rm /dev/dsp0 ln -s /dev/dsp1 /dev/dsp0 Although that means you will loose access to /dev/dsp0 . --HPS