Re: sound from usb speakers (Logitech v20) - howto?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: | Hello, | | I've recently purchased a couple of logitech v20 "USB" speakers to use with my | laptop, but I'm not able to get any sound out of it. The sound comes out from | the built-in speakers, but nothing comes out from the usb speakers. | | Any ideas on how to solve this? | | P.S I'm using current, see dmesg and output of "mixerctl -v" below. The USB audio device is attached at audio1. You'll have to use that device to get output. cd into /dev and run MAKEDEV audio1. You can (optionally) change the symlink that is /dev/audio to point to the newly created /dev/audio1 (and do the same for mixer and audioctl). Alternatively, many programs support specifying the audio device on the commandline. Point those at /dev/audio1. Another option would be to change your kernel (config -ef /bsd) and disable azalia. Your regular audio device will not attach and the USB audio device will become audio0. All options have their own advantages and downsides. You'll have to decide what you want to do. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >[<++>-]<+++.>+++[<-->-]<.>+++[<+ +++>-]<.>++[<>-]<+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
Re: sound from usb speakers (Logitech v20) - howto?
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:38:25 +0200 Didier Wiroth wrote: > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > Use the correct device file. /dev/audio is probably a link to your azalia device.
Re: sound from usb speakers (Logitech v20) - howto?
On Monday 20 July 2009 13:51:33 Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I've recently purchased a couple of logitech v20 "USB" speakers to use > | with my laptop, but I'm not able to get any sound out of it. The sound > | comes out from the built-in speakers, but nothing comes out from the usb > | speakers. > | > | Any ideas on how to solve this? > | > | P.S I'm using current, see dmesg and output of "mixerctl -v" below. > > The USB audio device is attached at audio1. You'll have to use that > device to get output. cd into /dev and run MAKEDEV audio1. You can > (optionally) change the symlink that is /dev/audio to point to the > newly created /dev/audio1 (and do the same for mixer and audioctl). > Alternatively, many programs support specifying the audio device on > the commandline. Point those at /dev/audio1. > > Another option would be to change your kernel (config -ef /bsd) and > disable azalia. Your regular audio device will not attach and the USB > audio device will become audio0. > > All options have their own advantages and downsides. You'll have to > decide what you want to do. > > Cheers, > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd Very cool! :-) Thanks, yes now it works. Didier
Re: sound from usb speakers (Logitech v20) - howto?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I've recently purchased a couple of logitech v20 "USB" speakers to use with > my > | laptop, but I'm not able to get any sound out of it. The sound comes out > from > | the built-in speakers, but nothing comes out from the usb speakers. > | > | Any ideas on how to solve this? > | > | P.S I'm using current, see dmesg and output of "mixerctl -v" below. > > The USB audio device is attached at audio1. You'll have to use that > device to get output. cd into /dev and run MAKEDEV audio1. there are 3 audio devices by default since 4.5. You can > (optionally) change the symlink that is /dev/audio to point to the > newly created /dev/audio1 (and do the same for mixer and audioctl). > Alternatively, many programs support specifying the audio device on > the commandline. Point those at /dev/audio1. note that each device has 3 nodes: audio, audioctl, and mixer. if you change the symlink for one node, you should change the others too. > Another option would be to change your kernel (config -ef /bsd) and > disable azalia. Your regular audio device will not attach and the USB > audio device will become audio0. > > All options have their own advantages and downsides. You'll have to > decide what you want to do. > > Cheers, > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd > > -- > >[<++>-]<+++.>+++[<-->-]<.>+++[<+ > +++>-]<.>++[<>-]<+.--.[-] > http://www.weirdnet.nl/ > -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: sound from usb speakers (Logitech v20) - howto?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:07:46PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: > > | Hello, > > | > > | I've recently purchased a couple of logitech v20 "USB" speakers to use > > with my > > | laptop, but I'm not able to get any sound out of it. The sound comes out > > from > > | the built-in speakers, but nothing comes out from the usb speakers. > > | > > | Any ideas on how to solve this? > > | > > | P.S I'm using current, see dmesg and output of "mixerctl -v" below. > > > > The USB audio device is attached at audio1. You'll have to use that > > device to get output. cd into /dev and run MAKEDEV audio1. > > there are 3 audio devices by default since 4.5. > > You can > > (optionally) change the symlink that is /dev/audio to point to the > > newly created /dev/audio1 (and do the same for mixer and audioctl). > > Alternatively, many programs support specifying the audio device on > > the commandline. Point those at /dev/audio1. > > note that each device has 3 nodes: audio, audioctl, and mixer. if > you change the symlink for one node, you should change the others too. meh. I always forget 'sound'. there are actually 4 nodes per device: audio, audioctl, mixer, sound. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org