[Wine] Intel HDA with Plantronics USB

[Susan Cragin]

>>I have a system that is using Intel HDA as its output, and a Plantronics USB headset as the microphone input.
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>>I would like to have my wine configuration emulate this setup, I currently have been unable to confirm that it isnt... I just cant get Steam to choose the plantronics headset as the default voice device (this is the goal).
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>>Would appreciate any insight!
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>Hmmm.... 
>I may be off-base here, but the only way I can get my USB input device to work at all is to change winecfg to OSS rather than ALSA.
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>Also, are you trying to use pulseaudio? 
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May I quote from an earlier post by Vitamin??
By default Wine uses only one ALSA card. You have to explicitly tell Wine to look for / use other cards.
See http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys 
(Alsa Driver section) for more details.