Karl Larsen <k5di <at> zianet.com> writes: > Ian Malone wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with USB headsets > > (mic + earphones)? I'm thinking of getting one for > > Skype use, and was wondering whether they just > > use USB audio. > I think there was a guy here earlier with a USB headset and Skype. He > had trouble but it was the Alsa Mixer thing. He is happy now. That was me. I bought a Plantronics .Audio 500 USB and it works fine now. It was muted by default. Using the soundcard number out of /proc/asound/cards, I tried: alsamixergui -c 1 or alsamixer -c 1 I unmuted the mike and after that it worked fine. I changed the sound device in Skype and as soon as I did that I was able to test Skype using the automatic test user - echo123.
