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
On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM Alexandre Ratchov <alex@caoua.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 01:28:48PM -0600, Raymond, David wrote:
> David J. Raymond
> David.Raymond@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
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