Ah yes, Ben is on the right track. It has been years since I tried using a headset with separate analog mic and line-out jacks from either the headset or computer side of things.
This might be what you need to make it work. It's usb/analog audio splitter. https://amzn.to/3eGKmo8 On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:52 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:45 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > > > I used ringcentral and it should let you select inputs and outputs. If > > not > > > then it's probably just using whatever the pulseaudio default is. > > > > Ben, > > > > That's how I selected the headphones and webcam mic; it didn't offer the > > headset mic as an option. > > > > > Pavucontrol will let you select inputs and outputs on a per-app basis. > > > > When I have the ringcentral app running I look at pavucontrol and see the > > same > > > > > I'll see if I can throw together a quick little screencast to show how > > you > > > do this, since it's something that throws a lot of long-time linux > users > > > for a loop. > > > > I saw the pictures along the top of the ringcentral window and used the > > options in each picture/menu to select among the offerings. > > > > > So the mic for the yamaha headset doesnt even show up in the devices tabs? > Double check the configuration tab and make sure it's set for stereo duplex > mode (so both input/output). > > Are you using a USB adapter or plugging straight into your computer's sound > card? From a quick search of the Yamaha Cm500 you aren't going to see it in > pavucontrol under the name "yamaha". It's going to be listed as whatever > sound card you have it plugged into. There are also 2 independent jacks. > > It's a "dumb" headset. Unless you are running some sort of USB adapter from > yamaha then this is simply a matter of a functioning mic jack on your sound > card. It's possible that other microphone devices would fail when plugged > into the same jack. A common problem I run into on linux is that most audio > devices can do both "Mic in" and "Line in". If your device is listening on > Line in, you won't hear anything because it's looking at the wrong jack. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
