USB headphone + microphone

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 13:27 +0200, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Saturday 14 August 2010, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> > I checked the archives but couldn't find anything useful. I also
> > Googled but also came up with a blank.
> > 
> > How does one get a USB headphone set to work under Kubuntu
> > (10.04)?
> > 
> > When I plug it in and then open Kmix it gives options for the
> > headphone set and I can hear my own voice through the headphones
> > via the microphone but not any audio from the laptop. If I play a
> > music file or any other multi-media file the sound only comes out
> > of the built-in speakers.
> > 
> > There is no problem using regular 3.5 jack plug headphones.
> 
> I don't really know a whole lot about this, but I'd assume that you 
> have to choose the USB device as output device in system settings.

When pulse is set up correctly, it's a piece of cake to select your
sound input/output with pavucontrol. It's when you crank up kmix and the
rest that the pavucontrol settings get ginked up. Either KDE should
support pulse or ditch it, because a hodgepodge of controls gets messy.
Ric