USB audio

Rameshkumar ubuntu.ramesh at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 18:55:20 UTC 2005


As far as Ubuntu, the USB is working fine for Data and vedios. No idea
about Audio.  some of my friends said that is working fine.

On 7/17/05, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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