>>I have a system that is using Intel HDA as its output, and a Plantronics USB headset as the microphone input. >> >>I would like to have my wine configuration emulate this setup, I currently have been unable to confirm that it isnt... I just cant get Steam to choose the plantronics headset as the default voice device (this is the goal). >> >>Would appreciate any insight! > >Hmmm.... >I may be off-base here, but the only way I can get my USB input device to work at all is to change winecfg to OSS rather than ALSA. > >Also, are you trying to use pulseaudio? > May I quote from an earlier post by Vitamin?? By default Wine uses only one ALSA card. You have to explicitly tell Wine to look for / use other cards. See http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys (Alsa Driver section) for more details.