USB headsets that are compatible with Ubuntu?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Nevermind. I should read my incoming mail before sending any out. :-)
When I ran alsamixer from the command line I was able to see a few
muted record-related channels and that solved this latest problem.


On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:27:29 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan
<eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Had a moment of insanity there and forgot that Windows 2000 isn't a
> very good USB platform (and it's my work notebook, so can't put Ubuntu
> on it, unfortunately), so I went with an ordinary
> headset-with-microphone that plugs into the sound card. That shoulod
> work on Ubuntu and the Thinkpad.
> 
> However, I can't test the microphone with gnome-sound-recorder. The
> app seems to record, but it then freezes on playblack. I have to force
> quit it. Sounds play fine and I double-check the volume control to
> make sure line-in and microphone aren't muted and have some volume.
> Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there a better sound recorder in
> universe that I can download?
>