Re: USB headphones

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I will try this tonight.

Thanks.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 5:50 PM Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> Am 17.01.2022 um 23:27 schrieb Todd Gruhn:
> > I found a nice set of headphones -- but they ARE USB.
> >
> > Is there a way to send sound to a/the USB port?
>
> yes of course you can. In USB headphones there is a built-in D/A
> converter which is connected to the computer via the USB port. Where it
> gets interesting is with driver support. NetBSD can do this in principle
> with the "uaudio" driver (man 4 uaudio), but there could be problems in
> the following cases:
>
> - uaudio currently supports only release 1.0 of the USB Audio Spec.
> Release 2.0 is not backward compatible according to the manpage and is
> not supported. It might be difficult to find out which release your
> headphones require, only try it out.
>
> - if the PC has only USB 3.0 ports, uaudio seems to work only with
> current (that's what I recently got as an answer to a similar question
> here).
>
> Many greetings
> Matthias
>