Re: USB headphones

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

I found the uaudio driver.

Do I need both lines in my config file:
   uaudio* at ...   AND
   audio* at audiobus?

?

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 6:27 PM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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
> >