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I have completely shifted bases to Ubuntu for my home system, one of the teething problems I had was using a Microsoft Livechat headset with Ubuntu. The headset is USB based, and Ubuntu does require some tweaking to start using the headset.
This is what you need to do –
- Open a terminal, and type
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
- At the bottom of the file, make an entry
blacklist snd_hda_intel
That’s it! Now simply restart your machine so all the modules get reloaded, the headset will now work.
About the blacklist.conf file
The blacklist.conf file is used to indicate to the system of which modules to ignore. Sometimes, multiple modules are addressing the same device, and that ensures that the device will not work. So, the blacklist file is used to indicate which module to be ignored.