In all the troubleshooting, i rebooted to Windows and checked it there... it works fine there... at least in the quick check I did. I will try a more detailed test there,,, maybe I missed something. It it possible that there is a hardware failure in the USB sound device... I would expect 100% failure though, not less than half volume.
Done more digging on this today... and the problems I am encountering seem not to be software related... if dozens of postings on various forums have any merit. The common theme regardless of OS or platform (Windows, Linux, PS3 etc) seems to be that either the chip in the little box on the headset wire is failing, or there is a broken wire. The symptoms are... extremely low sound volume from the speakers while the microphone works as it should. The only solution is complete replacement. I cannot complain about a failure... the headset has served me well... several years almost constant use out of it (both for VOIP phone and online gaming)... so a replacement isn't too painful... fingers crossed that the new one works :-) I wonder if there is a good quality wireless headset available now..... C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org