So I just bought a plantronics usb headset, i love it, except for the fact that i can't get it working under linux... well i guess it is sort of working, i plug it in and the snd-usb-audio module is loaded, and if i explicitly use it, such as aplay -D hw:1,0 <file.wav> it will play via the headset. I should say i have had no luck getting it set as default, but that's not quite right either. using the in-kernel drivers, if i booted the system with headset plugged in, it would end up as default, and work, except that apparently the chip is single channel so alsa is using software mixing, and speech doesn't quite shut up before the next line starts talking. for example, its reading a line of text, i hit numpad seven to move up, it starts reading the prior line but doesn't interrupt the text that was previously being spoken for about a half second...so that's no good. updated to the latest alsa, outside the kernel, and now i can't get speech at all if i manage to get usb-audio as default. I can play music just fine as default, but if I do spd-say, using the ibmtts module i get something about default being an invalid device. So, has anyone had any success getting this working? i'm starting to go slightly insane trying to figure this out. thanks Katie D
