USB headset ... ?

[Yuri Pankov]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 04:55 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> > In case you want to play music at the same time you are using a headset, you 
> > can activate the virtual channels for the audio device with a sysctl. This 
> > way the sound system allows to open /dev/dsp multiple times and mixes 
> > everything together and you don't need to have more than one soundcard.
> 
> You mean, I can actually hear GAIM beep on new messages while listening to 
> music??
> 
> I figured I had to be doing something wrong that it didn't work :(  Do you 
> happen to know what the sysctl is for this? :)
> 
> Thanks ...
> 
> ----
> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

These sysctl variables are described in sound(4) manpage.

Yuri