problems using USB headphones/mic in Slack
 

I put a USB headset/mic combo on my system today. Prior to this I was using the soundcard built into my mobo. Windows handled everything fine and I have some success in Slackware (10.2) so I know I don't have a bad headset or other hardware failure. But I'm stuck trying to configure Slackware to default to the USB audio across the board. I configured XMMS with "options -> preferences -> audio output ALSA -> configure -> audio device -> HW:1,0" (the default was HW:0,0 for the previous onboard sound).

"cat /proc/asound/modules" gives me an output of:
"0 snd-intel8x0
1 snd-usb-audio"

I can't figure out how to get the sound to work for any of the other multimedia applications. Noatun, xine, etc. So..... what do I do to globally configure slackware to default to the USB setup?

18 reads and no replys? Somebody's gotta have a bump that'll nudge me in the right direction...

I think you should look into the alsa configuration in the ~/.asoundrc file. There you can specify the default devices...

Well, I believe that no everyone owns an USB headset. I wouldn't buy it anyway, I know those for only give trouble (in any OS).

Thanks for the response but according to Konqueror I have no "asoundrc" file.

konqueror default behaviour is NOT showing you "hidden" files, i.e. files whose name starts with ".". you can for example
- use a terminal and ls -a
- type ~/. in konqueror address bar, it'll show you hidden files in a drop down list

BTW, I do not have that file either.

I know it doesn't show them unless you change the setting, but I thought the search would find hidden files.

Yes.

I told you that because you wrote "asoundrc" and thought you were missing the ".".

Bye.

Slackware has no .asoundrc file by default, you need to create one. You will probably want to look online for a sample file to use, since I believe they are fairly complicated (though I have never personally used one).

I too have a USB headset, and I have only ever used per-program settings like you have been doing in XMMS. I don't know for sure that the .asoundrc will allow an across the board device change, but it's probably the best shot.

You could always just disable the primary sound card to, if your goal here is to use only the USB headset.