Headset and Mic

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 11:47 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Steve Flynn
> <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
>         <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >> IF this is a laptop, do the laptop speakers work when
>         playing the same
>         >> file with the headset un-plugged? i.e. can you get ANY
>         sound out of
>         >
>         > Hi Steve,
>         >
>         >>
>         >> the machine at all or is this specifically when you listen
>         using cans?
>         >>
>         >
>         >  cans ? --> Not sure i understand it
>         
>         
>         sorry - slang terminology for headphones.  I'm interested in
>         hearing
>         if your machine produces any sound at all in Linux or whether
>         your
>         problems is limited to not having any sound in the headphones
>         themselves. You say it works ok in Windows, so we know the
>         hardware is
>         ok, but do you get ANY sound at all in Linux?
>  
> Hi Steve
> 
> 
> Yes I can here sound on Linux OS, the issue is when i can not hear
> anything from headset. Please suggest further

Something doesn't jive. If you are plugging into the stereo speaker's
headphone jack, that is an electro-mechanical connection, simple round
stereo plug into round stereo jack hole operation which physically
shunts the signal to the headphone while disconnecting the speakers,
which the computer doesn't have anything to do with. If this is a
digital switch, controlled by the OS, it's a new one on me. Someone with
knowledge of this, please chime in. Maybe we'll both learn something
new. 

But, if you have a USB headset, with that flat little connector with the
little holes, pavucontrol will send the signal to your headphones. 

This must be the 20th time, in 3-4 months, I've written that. I keep
hearing in my head Group Captain Lionel Mandrake shouting "USE THE GUN!
That's what the bullets are for!". Ric


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