Using USB sound in Ubuntu

[Jerry Matheny]

Yes I have and nothing happened. Not sure why. It doesn't detect my on  
board sound either as I said. And yet it used to work on my old Del  
laptop, so not sure what the deal is.


Best reguards,

Jerry

On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:18 AM, John Heim wrote:

> I think it should just work. Have you tried booting from grml with  
> the USB headset plugged in and then trying to start software speech  
> the usual way?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Matheny" <starnoble at gmail.com 
> >
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca 
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> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:57 PM
> Subject: Using USB sound in Ubuntu
>
>
>> Can anyone help me out? I need to use Ubuntu or GRML live cd as a   
>> method for recovering data on my desktop, however neither one of  
>> them  seem to detect my on board sound cards by default. Is there a  
>> way I  can have it work with my Plantronics DSP 500 USB headset  
>> instead then  so I can get speech? I don't have a hardware  
>> synthesizer otherwise I'd  use GRML with that. Any help or  
>> suggestions would be appreciatd.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> jerry
>>
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