USB audio

[Tony Arnold]

I've made some progress with this. It seems the USB audio was not
present because I had compiled my own sound driver. I've now recompiled
from the ALSA source (from the Ubuntu source repository) including my
sound card and the usb audio and I now get both mixers available to me
in the volume control

The problem I have now is that sound applications seem to only use my
main sound card and I cannot see a way to get them to use the usb audio
system. I think this is because they use /dev/dsp and the usb stuff is
on /dev/dsp1

Any idea how I can switch?

Regards,
Tony.

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:38 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> I've just invested in a Logitech USB Headset 350 as I wanted to play
> with VoIP stuff like Skype etc. But when I plugged them in to my Hoary
> 686 kernel, I could not get them to work. There was no USB audio device
> available in the Volume Control panel etc.
> 
> After some hunting around I decided to reboot into the 386 kernel that
> was still around and bingo, the USB audio stuff worked a treat and I was
> happily listening to Pink Floyd and making Skype phone calls!
> 
> It seems that the snd-usb-audio module is not included in the 686 kernel
> for Hoary, but is included in the 386 kernel.
> 
> Any idea how I could rectify this problem? I would really like to use a
> 686 kernel, and not the 386.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester,
IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
E: tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk, H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold