I found the uaudio driver. Do I need both lines in my config file: uaudio* at ... AND audio* at audiobus?
? On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 6:27 PM Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > >
