Hi, Thanks for the advice -- I do have a headphone set that works. However, I needed to get something I could hear/speak from across the room in a zoom yoga class and to keep things as simple as possible, I got a little USB conference speaker/mike. After fussing a while I figured out that this could be activated by restarting sndiod with the argument -f rsnd/1 and going back to the internal speakers with -f rsnd/0. It works great!
I really appreciate the help people give me on this mailing list. Dave David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 01:28:48PM -0600, Raymond, David wrote: > > David J. Raymond > > david.raym...@nmt.edu > > http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond > > > > Jan, > > > > Hmm.... Not being able to use the microphone and speaker from separate > > devices at the same time is a show stopper for me. I guess I will just > > have to use my headphones (with microphone) or get a combined USB or > > headset jack speaker-mike when I need to have a conversation over Zoom. > (I > > have used gens 1, 4, and 5 of X1 Carbons and everything just worked. The > > lack of support for the microphone on later generations was an unpleasant > > surprise -- though I understand why the support is lacking on OpenBSD. I > > am certainly not going back to Linux because of this!) > > > > I am attaching the dmesg text since the last reboot for the record -- it > is > > hard to include big files on gmail. > > > > Hi Dave, > > According to your mixerctl output, the machine has a microphone input > which corresponds probably to a combined 3.5mm trrs headset jack. If > so, most phone headsets should work. > > Assuming the headset works, if the headphones are uncomfortable to > your ears, you could use the headset's mic and the integrated > speakers. Once you plug the headset jack, you've to unmute the > speakers with the mixerctl(1) command (speakers are automatically > muted). Then, if you're satisfied, you could add the appropriate > commands to /etc/mixerctl.conf to make your changes persistent. > > Another option would be to use a comfortable USB headset, it must be > class-compliant, most are. > > HTH >
