I just bought a new pair of genius speakers. They plug into a usb port. The pilot light shows that they are switched on. The controls on them do adjust the volume up and down but only as the sound comes thru the laptop speakers.

Im using a T410 ThinkPad with Salix14 as the OS.

I punched in alsamixer on the terminal but there is only one bar to adjust up and down but it doesnt seem to help.
alsaconf produces a 'command not found'.

Is this something that should work 'out of the box'or does it need to be set up?

Looking for ideas and solutions.

Thanks!!!

i see 2 problems here:

1. your sound setup in general. does sound work at all? is your system using pulseaudio?
2. if your sound is set up, will a usb speaker "just work"? honestly i don't know. have you researched this yourself?

Hi autophil...

Although written with Ubuntu in mind, do any of the solutions here help? Review them carefully, some may or will not apply to your setup.

Regards...

Another question is;
Are these USB driven speakers? i.e: do they use there own, integrated sound card? Or are they merely USB powered speakers that also plug into the computer's existing sound card?
I ask this because every set of "USB speakers" I've ever come across use the USB plug for power only and draw the signal from the audio output jack.

Thanks I will try these. There is only a usb connection.

Sounds like bluetooth speakers to me.

Which one did you get?

http://www.geniusnet.com/Genius/wSit...tNode=116&mp=1

None of those. Its the
Logitech S150 Multimedia USB Speakers 2.0 for PC or Laptop

Reading reviews at Amazon. I read

so

link

more info

So in Salix. Look for installing pulseaudio and pauvcontrol.

http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/...io/pulseaudio/

http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/dist...o/pavucontrol/

Pulseaudio will screw you every time. Install pavucontrol and search through it for your devices. It can be tricky to get all the settings correct so that you actually get sound.

Ok. Thanks for that. Will do.