Linux-compatible USB microphone or sound adapters

[Tyler Aviss]

Hey All,


Awhile back I got an HP tx2500 series laptop to replace my old and
heavy portable rig. It actually runs quite nicely in linux, but one of
the continual annoyances I've had with it is that the microphone input
doesn't work on the soundcard (so no skype/voice-chat/etc). I picked
up an el-cheapo USB soundcard, and unfortunately it's the same issue
(output works fine, input has no luck). It's detected as:
[1481307.799208] input: C-Media USB Audio Device    as /class/input/input5
[1481307.799320] input: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media USB Audio Device
  ] on usb-0000:00:02.0-6
[1481308.001077] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio


I'm fairly sure, however, that it's not an issue with ALSA itself
(other than poorly-supported cards) because I pulled the Logitech USB
microphone from my 360 (Rockband) and - while it's huge and unwieldy -
it sounds great. The regular mic itself seems to be working as well
when I test it on other machines.

So what I need to find at this point is a portable USB-soundcard
adaptor that works with ALSA for input, or a smaller USB microphone
that I can drag around with the laptop. The former is preferable
though.


Anyone have any recommendations in this area?


- TJA
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists