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nightchill

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Registered: 2009-03-25

Posts: 16

No sound in USB Headset fix

Hi there, I've been using USB headset for long time and it has gave me nothing but problems, latest was with firefox until I finally stumbled upon a solution on how to force firefox (or virtually any app) to use your usb headset as a sound device for the current session. Hope this helps,

export ALSA_CARD=<sndcardname>
<application>

you need to put your usb soundcard's name there, for me it's Headset so my export line looks like this:

export ALSA_CARD=Headset
firefox

If you want to make it even more automatised, you can just make a wrapper for firefox (or any other app) like this,

#!/bin/bash
export ALSA_CARD=Headset; firefox $1

Hope it helps.