But my headset is evil, it digs into my ears and the sound quality is terrible.
Does anybody know if any of the Plantronics USB headsets can be made to work with Linux.
At the moment I have the annoying situation where I have a headset plugged into the front panel of my PC, this mutes the speakers (I could solve that but then if I left the headset plugged in I would get an annoying "tish tish tish" comming from the headphones when the music is turned up) So I have to leave the headset unplugged until a call comes in (or I want to make one) and then fumble around to get the Headphone and Mic socket in (or as with the other day, round the wrong way)
So I really like the idea of a USB device that (presumably) acts as another sound device, however the Plantronics headsets are not very cheap and I don't want to waste my money if they don't play on Linux
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:58:17PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
At the moment I have the annoying situation where I have a headset plugged into the front panel of my PC, this mutes the speakers (I could solve that but then if I left the headset plugged in I would get an annoying "tish tish tish" comming from the headphones when the music is turned up) So I have to leave the headset unplugged until a call comes in (or I want to make one) and then fumble around to get the Headphone and Mic socket in (or as with the other day, round the wrong way)
Probably not the answer you were looking for but.... I have a little box that plugs in the audio out on my machine, it has a switch to turn it between the speakers and the headphones (so that Kirsty doesn't get annoyed when I am playing quake et al)
one of these http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=9043
It could help the situation anyhow.
Adam
On Monday 08 November 2004 11:21 pm, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Probably not the answer you were looking for but.... I have a little box that plugs in the audio out on my machine, it has a switch to turn it between the speakers and the headphones (so that Kirsty doesn't get annoyed when I am playing quake et al)
one of these http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=9043
It could help the situation anyhow.
Adam
Tis an idea, and one that had already crossed my mind (although I was going to bodge something together from my parts drawer)
But the other really compelling thing about the Plantronics headsets that they have some clever DSP hardware that is supposed to really tidy up call quality. Unfortunately the DSP models are only available in USB.
Also it solves one other tiny problem with Skype, that is if you mess about with your soundcard levels a lot (I do) you loose the volume levels for Skype. then when a call comes in you have to make a quick dash for KAMix (or whatever) to get the volume set again. Actually that is something Skype could really do with, a "When making or answering calls revert Mixer to these settings" button.
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