USB Logitech Desktop Microphone

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 10/21/06, blittle2 at nyc.rr.com <blittle2 at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a USB Logitech desktop microphone. I'd like to use it for
> recording podcasts using Audacity. The same microphone works on Windows
> and Mac without installing any kind of driver. But I don't want to work
> on Windows and mac. I've come across a couple of sites that refer to
> either editing or recompiling certain files, but I don't know how to
> start or where to even find these files or what they are named. In
> other words I'm still very much a newbie when it comes to recompiling
> driver files to get things to work.
>
> What I have:
>
> 1.A G3 Blue and white "Clamshell" iBook
> 2.I am working with Ubuntu 6.06
> 3.Audacity
> 4. I work in the Gnome desktop environment
> 5. I know basic linux commands and can get around pretty well in the
> command line.

What happens when you just plug in the microphone to the computer?
Does it not work? I've had very good luck with USB items lately. I
recently bought a Logitech USB headset for voice calls and it just
worked. When I plugged it in, I just had more choices under
Preferences/Sound. The problem may be simpler than you think.

-Eamonn