How do I use my USB headset?

[Julian Elischer]

Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> 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 .

back when I used skype on BSD it was a linux binary,
which means it was looking in /compat/linux/dev

you need to have the correct symlinks in there..

> 
> --HPS
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