Hello:

I bought a Plantronics 478 headset (with mic) so that I could use it with Skype or listen to music. It's a usb plug in. Alsa picks it up but I can't get it to work. Even after I select the Plantonics option under the soundcard list in alsa, the sound still comes out the pc speakers and not from the headset. I have adjusted the sound in alsa, of course, and still nothing.

Inxi also shows the Plantronics sound card, but as number 2. Is that the problem, that is defaults to my regular soundcard? Any other way to switch them? Or any other suggestions?

Here's the inxi info:


System: Host: mepis1 Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 i686 (32 bit) Desktop Fluxbox Distro: antiX-M8 Intifada! 12 February 2009
Machine: System: Dell product: Inspiron 1721
Mobo: Dell model: 0UK441 Bios: Dell version: A07 date: 04/21/2008
CPU: Dual core AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm)
Clock Speeds: 1: 2000.00 MHz 2: 2000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: ATI RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] X.Org: 1.7.7 driver: radeon Resolution: 1440x900@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI R300 (RS690 791F) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 NO-TCL DRI2 GLX Version: 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1
Audio: Card-1: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: HDA Intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.21
Card-2: Plantronics driver: USB Audio
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Card-2: Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
IF: eth0 state: up mac: 00:1e:4c:88:b9:64
Drives: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (27.2% used) 1: /dev/sda SAMSUNG_HM250JI 250.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 9.7G used: 6.0G (66%) fs: ext3 ID: /home size: 219G used: 58G (28%) fs: ext3
ID: swap-1 size: 1.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 45.5C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 129 Uptime: 39 min Memory: 332.4/1897.6MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.23


thanks,

Pedro