How do I use my USB headset?

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 20:24 +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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..
> 
> I didn't think that the fact it was a linux binary could cause michief, 
> but of course that's a prime suspect for troubles. Strangely enough I 
> didn't even have a /dev folder under /compat/linux !
> 
> /dev/dsp1: Device or resource busy is the response I get from Skype, and 
> oddly enough the only device I can choose from now is /dev/dsp1 so maybe 
> the port maintainger managed to patch Skype to look in the right place 
> after all. Still no response from either program though, the microphone 
> is not working. :(
I am sorry if this was covered previously, but what does 

mixer rec

say? At least on my system (admittedly -CURRENT), I have to set it to
75:75 before Skype starts hearing me.

> 
> /Andreas
> 
-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.