On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Basil Chupin
Pulse/pavucontrol are sitting on top of alsa. Have you configured alsa? If no then-
on a comman line run
alsamixer
and press F6 to first select your audio card then press F5 to see all available channels. Look at the one re the microphone and see if its output level is high enough - use the up/down arrows to raise/lower the volume. And use the key "m" to switch on/off the channels (get to them by using the left/right arrows)--the 'mm' will be highlighted if the channels is active.
When you do the above it would be helpful if you have something producing sound running in the background so that you can gauge how your adjustments in alsamixer are working.
Once you have this right then pavucontrol will work.
Hey Basil... same question I asked last time. I've installed oS 12.3 multiple times on multiple systems with varying kinds of audio devices.. onboard, USB etc., and not once have I ever had to use alsamixer to set things up so that pavucontrol will work. What is special about your config that requires this intermediary step? I know Pulse sits above alsa... but... the need for alsamixer... that seems odd based on my experience. On to Jim's issue. I have no solution other than a "me too". I've had my Logitech Clearchat USB Wireless headset behave exactly as described... IF.. if I disconnected it for a period, and then reconnected. It happened once - last week actually - where I disconnected the headset to use on another computer. When I reconnected it to my main computer running 12.3 and KDE 4.10, the audio, especially the microphone was horribly distorted and at a low volume. The "fix" in my case was to restart (I had to reboot for other reasons) with the headset connected to the USB bus. This only happened the one time though... and I've since disconnected/reconnected the USB receiver and had no problems. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org