oss instead of alsa. would this be simpler?

[Joel Roth]

Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi.
> I tested to get the names of my card, and editing the asound file, but
> only got errors, so I had to remove it.
> my headset was simply named Headset.
> /Kristoffer

Two things you need to have: (1) sound output from your USB
headphones and (2) setting the USB headphones as the default
device.

You will start with something like this:

aplay -D <pcm_name> some.wav 

Here is for the default device:

aplay -D default some.wav

Here is using PCM names from "aplay -L":

aplay -D hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 some.wav

aplay -D plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0

Before you can get sound output your USB sound device must accept input.
Then figure out audible volume settings. That can be done
from the terminal using amixer.

Sound cards tend to have lots of mixer settings.
This may list some headphone related settings

amixer | grep phone

you may need to add the -c flag to select the appropriate
card.

When posting, try to post the text of what  you did and what
results you got, to best help  your potential helpers!

cheers,

Joel

 
> 2016-07-03 20:49 GMT+02:00, Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com>:
> > Hi Kristoffer,
> >
> > OSS is still around. I'm not sure you exhausted all the
> > possibilities to get your USB headset to work under ALSA.
> > Did you write them up?
> >
> > cat /proc/asound/cards will give you some helpful
> > information.
> >
> > alsamixer with the -c option for your USB card may help.
> > There are a headphone level and mute controls. It is
> > curses-based so I don't know how accessible that is for
> > you.
> >
> > amixer is terminal based, and has all the same controls,
> > although there are so many parameters that it can be confusing.
> >
> > Can't give any ideas about alsaconf, as it's not on my
> > machine.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >> I've tried a very long time to get alsa use my usb headset.
> >> Do you Think that I can do this if i remove alsa and install open sound
> >> system?
> >> This is hard. it was easier Before. just use alsaconf, and then I
> >> could use what I wanted. I got two cards. intel and creative at that
> >> time.
> >> /Kristoffer
> >>
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