I will try this tonight. Thanks.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 5:50 PM Matthias Petermann <m...@petermann-it.de> 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 >
