On Friday 19 December 2008 19:11, Don Raikes wrote:

I have f10 installed and running fine on my gateway system, but I wanted to use my plantronics headset with it. I plugged in the headset and can see from the log that it is recognized, but I get no sound through the headset.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Hi Don.

I'm not too up to speed on USB audio apps, apart from my USB midi keyboard, but I'll have a go to start things off.

Is this on a laptop, or a PC? Which make, and model?

I assume that the sounds are working on F10, apart from the headset problem.

With the headset unplugged, post back the output from the commands below.

cat /proc/asound/cards /sbin/lsmod | grep snd

If you have a laptop, with built in webcam, and mike, you will probably see lsmod showing the snd-usb-audio module loaded, and the output from, cat /proc/asound/cards will also show a card entry (perhaps card1, or card2) for a USB device (a webcam's mike perhaps).

Anyway. Post back the output from running the commands above, and we'll take it from there.

All the best.

Nigel.

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

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I plugged in the headset and can see from the log that it is recognized, but I get no sound through the headset.

I don't have experience with USB headsets, but it should show up as another sound card. Fire up PulseAudio Volume Control and look at the output device settings.

How does one "fire up PulseAudio Volume Control"?

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:39:38 -0800 (PST) Antonio Olivares wrote:

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How does one "fire up PulseAudio Volume Control"?

Easy :) Applications ---> Sound & Video ---> PulseAudio Volume Control

This is how it can be done at least in Gnome. In KDE, YMMV or it is a bit different, but it should be there, otherwise turn to good old CLI and type

It is often simpler to find apps by doing a grep -r of the /usr/share/applications .desktop files than to figure out where the heck they are hidden in the menus :-). Once you find the right .desktop file look for the Exec= line to see what program to run.

Antonio Olivares wrote:

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How does one "fire up PulseAudio Volume Control"?

Easy :) Applications ---> Sound & Video ---> PulseAudio Volume Control

This is how it can be done at least in Gnome. In KDE, YMMV or it is a bit different, but it should be there, otherwise turn to good old CLI and type $ pavucontrol

It should come up :)

Thanks. I found it in KDE under Multimedia=>Volume Control.

Ps I had been wondering who or what pavu was.

Nigel,

Ok so here it goes:

The system is a gateway desktop pc about 6 years old.

cat /proc/asound/cards (without the usb headset plugged in: 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0x88300000 irq 16

lsmod | grep snd (with usb headset not plugged in:

snd_usb_audio 77696 0 snd_hda_intel 351124 2 snd_seq_dummy 6660 0 snd_seq_oss 30364 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 42496 0 snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 65924 3 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_usb_lib 17536 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 22528 1 snd_usb_lib snd_seq_device 10124 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_hwdep 10500 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel snd 50616 17 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 9416 1 snd

cat /proc/asound/cards (with usb headset plugged in:

0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0x88300000 irq 16 1 [default ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-0000:00:1d.2-2.1.7, full speed

lsmod | grep snd (with usb headset plugged in:

snd_usb_audio 77696 0 snd_hda_intel 351124 2 snd_seq_dummy 6660 0 snd_seq_oss 30364 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 42496 0 snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 65924 3 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_usb_lib 17536 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 22528 1 snd_usb_lib snd_seq_device 10124 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_hwdep 10500 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel snd 50616 17 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 9416 1 snd

And yes without the headset plugged and just the small external speakers plugged in, sound in gnome works fine. I can hear orca without a problem. -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Henry [mailto:cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:23 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: f10 no sound through usb headset

On Friday 19 December 2008 19:11, Don Raikes wrote:

I have f10 installed and running fine on my gateway system, but I wanted to use my plantronics headset with it. I plugged in the headset and can see from the log that it is recognized, but I get no sound through the headset.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Hi Don.

I'm not too up to speed on USB audio apps, apart from my USB midi keyboard, but I'll have a go to start things off.

Is this on a laptop, or a PC? Which make, and model?

I assume that the sounds are working on F10, apart from the headset problem.

With the headset unplugged, post back the output from the commands below.

cat /proc/asound/cards /sbin/lsmod | grep snd

If you have a laptop, with built in webcam, and mike, you will probably see lsmod showing the snd-usb-audio module loaded, and the output from, cat /proc/asound/cards will also show a card entry (perhaps card1, or card2) for a USB device (a webcam's mike perhaps).

Anyway. Post back the output from running the commands above, and we'll take it from there.

All the best.

Nigel.

Just a thought since this post. See below.

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 18:37, Nigel Henry wrote:

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 17:12, Don Raikes wrote:

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Nigel,

Ok so here it goes:

The system is a gateway desktop pc about 6 years old.

cat /proc/asound/cards (without the usb headset plugged in: 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0x88300000 irq 16

cat /proc/asound/cards (with usb headset plugged in:

0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0x88300000 irq 16 1 [default ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-0000:00:1d.2-2.1.7, full speed

Hi Don.

The above is fair enough. If you had more than one USB audio device plugged in, I'd expect to see a card listed, when running, cat /proc/asound/cards, when the headset is not plugged in.

Try opening alsamixer as user, on Gnomes terminal, or KDE's Konsole, as below. alsamixer -D hw:1

This should show any controls available for your Cmedia USB headset. Something may be muted (M key toggles mute/unmute), or perhaps there is a slider that needs to be pushed up.

Pulseaudio, which has been the default soundserver since F8, can be a pain in the neck, and sometimes causes problems with various audio apps. You can disable it by simply removing the package, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, then your audio apps will use alsa directly. You can also re-enable it later if you wish, by just re-installing the package.

yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

If you're using KDE, as I am, removing the above package, will also remove kde-settings-pulseaudio, so when re-installing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, you will also have to re-install kde-settings-pulseaudio.

All the best.

Nigel.

Also try, if you still have pulseaudio enabled, the alsamixer command as below.

alsamixer -D hw:0

This will show all controls for your soundcard. I have no experience using USB headsets, but you may find that some slider needs to be pushed up to get sounds out of your headset. The F4 key will switch alsamixer to capture settings, and have found that for my TV card on one distro, I have to have some sliders pushed up to get sounds out from my TV card on the capture view of alsamixer. Just some thoughts, as I'm running out of suggestions.

Nigel.