Intel HDA with Plantronics USB

irishdunn · Post by **irishdunn** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:12 pm

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!

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:49 pm

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?

irishdunn · Post by **irishdunn** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:48 am

I dont believe so, I only have the ALSA box ticked, but I do have hardware emulation checked.

I figured it would be a setting in the registry to set the default recording device. The control panel would make this much easier

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:00 am

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.

irishdunn · Post by **irishdunn** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:42 pm

forgive my ignorance, but in the winecfg I can see both devices under ASLA. This makes me think that wine knows they are there, I just need to set the recording default to my usb headset.

I could be terribly wrong, sorry if I frustrate you.

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:24 am

forgive my ignorance, but in the winecfg I can see both devices under ASLA. This makes me think that wine knows they are there, I just need to set the recording default to my usb headset.

I could be terribly wrong, sorry if I frustrate you.

http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

Here are the instructions to change the registry.

irishdunn · Post by **irishdunn** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:31 am

Susan I know of that reference, I used it to set up my Direct3d support.

However, as I stated earlier: When running the winecfg, I can see both devices.

-Intel HDA
-Plantronics USB

I want to select the second device as the default sound input. I do not see any of the keys matching to what I would like to do.

If I am missing something, then please point it out, however just linking me multiple times to the same reference is not assisting.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:59 am

irishdunn wrote:Susan I know of that reference, I used it to set up my Direct3d support.

However, as I stated earlier: When running the winecfg, I can see both devices.

-Intel HDA
-Plantronics USB

That doesn't mean anything. Winecfg does a more complete scan of devices and will show something that is normally won't be available. You have to explicitly tell Wine's ALSA driver to look for more then one device.

Same with selecting devices - Wine's ALSA driver will pick the default device (which would be your sound card) and not the USB mic. You either need to make that recording device default in ~/.asoundrc or tell Wine via registry which input device to use. Winecfg can't do that for you.

irishdunn · Post by **irishdunn** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:21 pm

I really want to use my /dev/dsp for output and my /dev/dsp1 for input.

Seriously I dont know how to do this, please give me some more direct advice... these keys dont look like what I want.

Sorry, would greatly appreciate the help.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:47 pm

irishdunn wrote:I really want to use my /dev/dsp for output and my /dev/dsp1 for input.

This is impossible with OSS. One device is used for both input and output.

irishdunn · Post by **irishdunn** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:57 pm

Then how can I select my /dev/dsp1 (Plantronics USB) as the default device for wine?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:10 pm

irishdunn wrote:Then how can I select my /dev/dsp1 (Plantronics USB) as the default device for wine?

Code: Select all

export AUDIODEV=/dev/dsp1
wine app.exe

That's if you really want to use OSS device. Of course you'll need to select OSS in winecfg.

irishdunn · Post by **irishdunn** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:26 pm

why wouldnt I use ALSA

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:40 pm

irishdunn wrote:why wouldnt I use ALSA

You asking me? You are the one who wants to use /dev/dsp1 which is OSS device not ALSA.