How do I use my USB headset?

[Hans Petter Selasky]

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