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Old 09-16-2007, 02:47 AM   #1
motomon
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Problems with a GigaWare USB headset - Still sound from the PC


I have read a lot about this issue and, although I have tired many things, I just cannot get it right. I have a RadioShack GigaWare USB Headset. When I do lsusb I get:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

So it is a C-Media Electronics. According to http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3973 this headset should work right away and it sort of does. It is recognized by the system and when I do aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: default [C-Media USB Headphone Set ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

seems that everything is just fine, I even, in the Kmix have the C-Media USB Headphone Set available. I even get sound out of the headphones when doing cat /bin/bash > /dev/dsp1

However, whenever I play a song nothing comes out of the headphones but from the built-in speaker (BTW, the soundcard is an Intel one). If I just put on the headset and start talking to the mic, my voice does get out through the headphones, but not the song. Also, when I look at the sound card in the yast control I see only one card the Intel one and it is there as though it were not configured. The USB card does not show up. I can even do alsamixergui -c 1 (the USB card is recognized as card 1)

Please, I know that a lot of these questions have been around but I read all of them and tried many things but the sound of any song is still coming out of the built-in speaker. How can I make it go through the headphones? BTW, my distro is OpenSuse 10.2 and the player I use is Kaffeine.

Thank you for any hints you may provide.
 
Old 09-17-2007, 12:15 AM   #2
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OK, it sort of works...

After some turning on and off or the desktop and moving kmix I got this headset to work. However, it seems that only some applications make use of the headset. When I play a song using Amarok the sound does come out through the headphones. However, when I play the same song using VLC or Kaffeine, the sound goes through the built-in speaker. Any ideas how I could get it working in all available players? Thank you.
 
Old 06-09-2008, 09:01 AM   #3
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I tried linking /dev/dsp to /dev/sound/dsp1, the usb device and it works for mplayer. I didn't try any others. That seems to be the source of the problem, even though the usb headphones load and are active, apps access the original device /dev/dsp.

I've seen a lot of postings around asking this question, but no answers that work or explain how to do a real fix for this that includes what actually is going wrong.
 
Old 06-02-2009, 01:41 PM   #4
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Question Works in testing but not other things

I have this same headset as you can see below

http://rsk.imageg.net/graphics/produ...227619w345.jpg

I do not understand all that code you two displayed so can someone tell me in simple terms what I need to do to get it working on my Ubuntu 6.04 32-Bit/64-Bit Linux? I put both bits because I use on both.

Thank you,
Tony
 
Old 06-04-2009, 07:04 AM   #5
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Can someone help with this?

Is there anyone that can help me get this working?

http://rsk.imageg.net/graphics/produ...227619w345.jpg
 
Old 07-01-2009, 07:19 PM   #6
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I couldn't find any info on this problem either, but i figured it out :)

A combination of removing pulse audio and upgrading to the latest stable release of alsa (1.0.20) did the trick. My headset works as its supposed to. It took a little effort:
I downloading the binaries from alsa project dot org (yeah its not letting me post the link because I haven't posted before)
I downloaded the utils, tools, driver and lib. Then installed them thusly:
install the following things from synaptic package manager:
gettext
libncurses5-dev
build-essential

Then unpack the binaries by dragging them to your desktop. then enter terminal and navigate to those created directories one at a time. cd ~/Desktop/alsa-driver-1.0.20/should get ya to the first one. For each directory type in ./config then wait. then make then wait then sudo make install then your password then wait. Then on to the next directory. Make sure nothing fails. Restart and violla; headphones work
 
Old 07-04-2009, 11:16 AM   #7
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Ok; skip all that; did a reinstall; and refined it to something much easier.. remove pulseaudio package; then if you got the same setup as I do all you'll have to do is type:
Code:
asoundconf set-default-card default
if that doesn't work then type
Code:
asoundconf list
find your usb headset in there, and replace the second default in the code above with the name of your headset
My output looked like this:
Code:
desktop:~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
SB
default
so i figured my usb driver must be "default". I felt kinda silly setting default card to default.. but it worked
 
  


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