Integrating Computer headset w/ speakers

[manly]

I currently have an SB Live! card hooked up to 4.1 speakers, which contains its own headphones port as is common these days.

I now want to hook up an analog computer headset to the sound card, which I believe is designed to connect directly to the sound card's microphone-in port and also the line-out port (for the headphones). I am not interested in a digital USB headset at this time.

Intending to use both the speakers and the headset (at different times), do I need a basic splitter on the sound card line-out so that I don't need to swap the connectors back and forth?

I'm pretty sure I can't simultaneously connect the headset to the sound card's microphone-in and to the speakers headphones port a few feet away. Even if I could, I'd rather not have to doctor the headset cable and have them dangling all over my desk anyway. TIA for any clues.

 

[spanky]

haha! i know the answer to this one. i was trying to do the same thing, so i could use the speakers under windows, and my headset during CS. anyway, i too have a sblive. here is what i did. i plugged the speakers into the front out jack, and the headphones into the rear out jack. then go to ur control panel... and depending on ur os... in win98, go to multimedia... in xp, go to sounds & audio devices. now look for an option called "speaker setup"... and change it to quadraphonic. that's how i got my setup going