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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
