You don't say what distro you're on. In Fedora we can control which devices are which via /etc/modprobe.conf. If you're not on Fedora, your controlling file is probably different. Here's a snip from my modprobe.conf on a machine with four devices. The device 0 is generally assumed to be the default: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-ca0106 options snd-card-1 index=1 options snd-ca0106 index=1 alias snd-card-2 snd-hdsp options snd-card-2 index=2 options snd-hdsp index=2 alias snd-card-3 snd-usb-audio options snd-card-3 index=3 options snd-usb-audio index=3 If you have the alsasound script in /etc/init.d, you can stop and restart sound that way. It can bde a good way to have new devices where you want them without rebooting. It would be convenient if spd provided a way to specify which alsa device it should be sending audio to. Perhaps it does, I don't know. I do wonder whether you want Speakup in a single channel headset, though. Of course, if you're only using it as a headphone, it's probably not a problem. But, if you intend to use the microphone during voip telephone conversations, adding Speakup might tend to confuse your comprehension. Just a thought. I know it would work that way for me. I have a Plantronix BlueTooth headset that I never got working with alsa. The headphone worked (also single earpiece, single channel), but the mic never worked for me. I've recently acquired a Sennheiser PC155 headset and a Mackie 1202 analog audio mixer. I couldn't be more thrilled by what this allows me to do: * All audio on my computer goes to the Mackie. For each audio * channel there's a button I can press to send output to the * headset or to the speakers. * The Sennheiser is both standard analog with a pair of 3.5 mm * plugs, headphone and mic. Using the provided USB dongle makes * this an audio device alsa immediately recognizes. It's a "gamer" * headset, so is stereo with pretty good audio specs. * I have the mic of my Sennheiser going all the way to a USB port * on my laptop. The stereo out of the USB I take to a line on my * Mackie. Then, I plug the 3.5 mm headphone of my Sennheiser into * the headphone out of the Mackie. Now, I can have Speakup in my headset--or not. I can have a twinkle mediated voip conversation on this head set. Indeed, it's now my preferred device for my long teleconferences (of which I have many). And, if I want Speakup and music in my headset, I can do that too--in any combination--all by selecting which inputs on the Mackie are routed where. Very, very convenient. I like it so much, I'm going to duplicate this setup on my second workstation. So, I don't know where you're going with your Plantronix, but I thought I'd share my experience, and my recent success, with my setup. Hope it helps. Janina Katie Durden writes: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
