[opensuse] Adjusting volume on a USB headset?
I have a new sound problem... I have a Logitech USB 250 Headset that has been working perfectly up until today. I have been able to adjust the volume using KMix... Today the volume dropped to about 20% and stayed there. If I turn on absolute values in KMix (shows value between 0 and 100) and move the slider, the highest it goes is 44% which is not high enough to hear anything. Is there any way to reconfigure this audio device? It is not present in YAST - never has been... I assume that is because of the fact it is a USB audio device. Is there another way - command line? - that I can reset teh volume to this audio device so I can hear things with it again? Oh, I have tried log out and back in.. and also a full reboot.. no change.. max is still 44% ad not loud enough to hear... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 8/7/07, Clayton <smaug42@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a new sound problem... I have a Logitech USB 250 Headset that has been working perfectly up until today. I have been able to adjust the volume using KMix...
Today the volume dropped to about 20% and stayed there. If I turn on absolute values in KMix (shows value between 0 and 100) and move the slider, the highest it goes is 44% which is not high enough to hear anything.
Is there any way to reconfigure this audio device? It is not present in YAST - never has been... I assume that is because of the fact it is a USB audio device. Is there another way - command line? - that I can reset teh volume to this audio device so I can hear things with it again?
Oh, I have tried log out and back in.. and also a full reboot.. no change.. max is still 44% ad not loud enough to hear...
More experimenting with this... if I run alsamixer -c 3 I can control the volume. On startup, it is set at 100%. Moving the speaker volume down makes things even quieter (expected) but maxing the volume and playing test sounds.. can barely hear anything. I opened up /etc/asound.STATE and poked around in there. The section for the Headset was set to a range of 0 to 44 and volume was set to 44. (max of the range?) I unplugged the usb headset.. plugged it back in... it's immediately picked up and working.. but the sound levels are still barely audible. I started playing a sound and runnign the volumes up and down in KMix and alsamixer.... I get spikes of loud and quiet as I move the volume up or down. I cannot get it to stay on a "loud" segement... it spikes and then drops back down to barely audible. Any suggestions? Trying it on another computer now... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 19:08 +0200, Clayton wrote:
I have a new sound problem... I have a Logitech USB 250 Headset that has been working perfectly up until today. I have been able to adjust the volume using KMix...
Today the volume dropped to about 20% and stayed there. If I turn on absolute values in KMix (shows value between 0 and 100) and move the slider, the highest it goes is 44% which is not high enough to hear anything.
At this point I would look into Yast, Sound Card, and tweak the Master volume. You have not mentioned which version that you are running, and I have had a few volume level fall backs on my 10.0 system, and by that I mean the volume is set to 0 according to YaST.
Is there any way to reconfigure this audio device? It is not present in YAST - never has been... I assume that is because of the fact it is a USB audio device. Is there another way - command line? - that I can reset teh volume to this audio device so I can hear things with it again?
See above, also make sure that you are using the correct Master Channel, by right clicking on the volume symbol in the tray and choosing the proper one.
Oh, I have tried log out and back in.. and also a full reboot.. no change.. max is still 44% ad not loud enough to hear...
C.
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At this point I would look into Yast, Sound Card, and tweak the Master volume.
Well... I would except that none of my USB sound devices show up there as sound devices (the USB headset, and the USB webcam both have adjustable volume settings in KMix and are recognized as sound devices by applications such as Ekiga and Skype). My SoundBlaster Live5.1 is there and I can twiddle the volumes for that... but... that of course has no effect on the USB sound device. The USB sound devices don't show up anywhere in YAST. The only place I have ever found to adjust volumes is in KMix or other apps that adjust the volume of devices driven by ALSA.
You have not mentioned which version that you are running,
Ooops... openSUSE10.2 fully updated, but no updates applied in at least 2 weeks....
and I have had a few volume level fall backs on my 10.0 system, and by that I mean the volume is set to 0 according to YaST.
OK, yes I have also encountered this. The weird part is.. this USB headset has been working perfectly. In fact it was in use (telephone call via Ekiga) with correct volumes when the volume went from perfect levels to almost nothing. No one was adjusting the volumes... the volume slider was exactly where it has always been. 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. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 06:27 +0200, Clayton wrote:
At this point I would look into Yast, Sound Card, and tweak the Master volume.
Well... I would except that none of my USB sound devices show up there as sound devices (the USB headset, and the USB webcam both have adjustable volume settings in KMix and are recognized as sound devices by applications such as Ekiga and Skype). My SoundBlaster Live5.1 is there and I can twiddle the volumes for that... but... that of course has no effect on the USB sound device.
The USB sound devices don't show up anywhere in YAST. The only place I have ever found to adjust volumes is in KMix or other apps that adjust the volume of devices driven by ALSA.
I fired up the sound card settings in YaST, set the master to 0, exited it, and you're right, that had absolutely nada effect on the USB headset (a Logitech btw, the model had been recommended in a thread several months back).
You have not mentioned which version that you are running,
Ooops... openSUSE10.2 fully updated, but no updates applied in at least 2 weeks....
and I have had a few volume level fall backs on my 10.0 system, and by that I mean the volume is set to 0 according to YaST.
OK, yes I have also encountered this. The weird part is.. this USB headset has been working perfectly. In fact it was in use (telephone call via Ekiga) with correct volumes when the volume went from perfect levels to almost nothing. No one was adjusting the volumes... the volume slider was exactly where it has always been.
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.
That would seem to indicate a configuration issue then. Unfortunately sound in Linux is not an area that I have any real knowledge past getting the basics running. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
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