I am new user to Linux and I have PCLinuxos as my OS. I try to get the audio to go through my usb headset but I'm not quite sure on how to set it up. My computer reads it quite fine i just can't figure out how to get the audio to go throw the headset instead of through my laptop speakers. Ne help?

When you say the 'computer reads it' do you mean you have confirmation that the thing is recognised as a usb device and the necessary driver modules (usb-audio?) get loaded?

You could try unloading the driver module for the built-in sound device to see if the output switches to the headset. Maybe you can also turn the internal sound off in the BIOS. Look at the list of working USB sound devices at:

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/searc...?pattern=sound

Click on the links on the right to see what people did to get them working.

when i say it reads it i did lsusb and it says its there, now all i want is to get the sound to go through the headset instead of my laptop speakers and i dont' know how to do that. what should i do from here?

Running

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

should give you more information, including the name of the driver. You can also check the driver is loaded from the output of 'lsmod'.

You can also poke around in /proc/asound to see if your USB device is listed there. If it appears as card1 (with the built-in device as card0) you should be able to control it through the mixer. In a console run

alsamixer -c 1

and try changing levels. Just 'alsamixer' or 'alsamixer -c 0' should give you access to the builtin sound if you want to turn it off.