On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 09:33 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> My Yamaha CM500 headset uses micro phono plugs rather than a USB "A" plug > for connection to the desktop. 'pavucontrol' tells me that the front > microphone is unplugged. > > As there are no instructions with the headset I want to check that I'm > connecting it correctly. > > I assume the black plug is audio and is plugged into the green port on the > front of the case. The grey plug I assume to be the microphone. I connected > the mic to the supplied amplifier powered by 2 AAA batteries and plugged it > into the red port on the front of the case. > > How should I troubleshoot this situation so I can get the headset working > properly? > > TIA, > > Rich > . I do not have your hardware, so adjust to your colors .... If your microphone is powered, and if your PC has line in input - you should connect the microphone to line-in. If your PC does not have line-in and you still get good sound from mic input - then you should be good - despite the fact that the microphone presence is not detected. In this case you will have to configure your conference SW manually somehow. Microphone inputs are meant to be used with dynamic (not powered) microphones -- unless the port can autodetect and switch between microphone and line-in modes. Consult you motherboard documentation. That is why your powered microphone presence is not detected. Your particular usage mode is being increasingly uncommon these days as most PCs do not have line-in, even stereo inputs, relying on USB headset and soundcards to provide these. Hope that helps, Tomas > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
