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Logitech USB headset & Ubuntu/Linux

My wife had an unused Logitech Stereo USB Headset 250 kicking around the house that I took into the office today. Joy of joys! Ubuntu/Dapper recognized it and both the headset *and* microphone work out of the box.

Just like Microsoft Windows ;-)

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11 Responses to “Logitech USB headset & Ubuntu/Linux”

  1. Wired Pig Says:
    September 17th, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    I am so glad it works… I was looking for one to go with my Windows desktop and Ubuntu laptop. This was the first link in my search. Thanks again for the info.

  2. Caleb Says:
    October 5th, 2006 at 1:22 pm

    well i home you see this

    im looking into that same headset but i need to know one important thing about it

    is it running and a sec sound card

    im setting it up for skype and would like normal sound from my onboard and have my skype set to use the head set

    also something you guys might like to know is the logitech ps2 headset works out of box on suse 10.1

    letting some one im helping move to linux use it for sound becuase there one board isnt working

  3. Caleb Says:
    October 5th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

    sorry for double post

    email me that anwser to that question if you can

    at caleb@tekhawk.com

  4. Marc Nozell Says:
    October 6th, 2006 at 6:42 am

    All I know is what I wrote. I don’t use a SuSE desktop. However there is a pretty good
    chance it will work, SuSE usually does a good job with integrating new hardware support.

    -marc

  5. Andrew Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 2:16 pm

    I just bought one the other day to test with my Fedora box at work (where I don’t have the ability to call out long distance, and figured Skype might be a good option)..

    Thank you for confirming that this works in Linux!

  6. NightWolf Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 8:43 pm

    ok, i have that same headset, but i’m running the latest version of Kubuntu. I plugged it in, and it wouldn’t work at all. after it removed the primary soundcard, I was finally able to hear my music and crap like that through it, but i still cant get the system sounds to come through. i think i have to manually override the device location in the arts sound server, but i can’t find the path to put in. i’ve tried every /dev location that i can think of that would make any sense at all, and it still won’t work. I even tried a few locations in /sys.

    any ideas?

  7. Marc Nozell Says:
    November 4th, 2006 at 6:17 am

    NightWolf,

    I use the gnome desktop and when the headset is plugged it, there is a notification that a new audio device is available and offers to use it. There was no need to edit configuration files manually or anything — it was very slick.

  8. muxecoid Says:
    June 3rd, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Good news. I’ll probably buy it.

  9. muxecoid Says:
    June 3rd, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    Thanks for testing. I’ll probably buy it.

  10. muxecoid Says:
    June 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Thanks for testing. I’ll probably buy it.

    BTW this blog does not let you post comments from links2 web browser. :P And the poster’s OS and Browser are very inviting. :)

  11. Lukas Says:
    June 28th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    Hi.
    The most USB-headset is working if you select usb audio in System/Preferences/Sound for Sound Events, Music and Movies, and Audio Conferencing - Sound Playback.
    It worked for me and i got a crappy SilverCrest MHS 5100 USB

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