I am currently using openSUSE 11.2, and I just got a Logitech Clearchat Pro USB headset for Christmas. Like the average Linux n00b, I just plugged it in and hoped it would work like normal.
Well, at first it did work, but the volume was very quiet. The headset also controlled the system’s volume controls (pressing up/down on the right headset would raise/lower the volume on the system itself, not the headset).
So I went to YasT2. Added the headset as a second sound card. Configured the volume.
However, I noticed now the volume icon on the System Tray has completely disappeared. Pressing up/down on my keyboard’s vol. controls no longer works, nor my laptop’s built-in volume dial.
Did I completely destroy any chance of changing the volume from outside of YasT2? I set it to “auto config” the Logitech headset, I thought it was safe since it recognized it as the right 'set.
Someone, please help me. I’m sure you all know how much of a hassle it is to open YasT2, type in the root password, and configure your sound card just to change the volume.
Thanks,
SPARTAN…
wait, wtf…
I just held down the volume up again on the headset, and all of a sudden my cursor just started shaking like an earthquake passed by, and I could see the blue highlight around the form flicker.
If you are using KDE, your speaker in the lower right corner will come back by typing “kmix”. I am not a gnome user so I do not know the gnome command. Anyway, it will come back during a reboot.
You can read more about configuring USB headphones (which applies to USB speakers also) here: USB headphones - openSUSE
It’s alright, I figured it all out myself. I configured the Logitech headset in YasT2 and opened KMix from the KMenu. Then I had to right-click the sys. tray icon and select the headset as the master volume channel.
Why is it that I usually find the solutions to my problems shortly after I ask for help? What’s really strange about it is that my mind won’t come up with a solution unless I ask for help.
I figure it is because by focusing one’s mind in order to type a coherent help request, it sometimes then structures the problem in such a way that possible solutions start occurring to one.
I’be just bought a third ClearchatPro USB for my household - this one for my second son: my two sons kept snagging mine
Glad you got yours working on SUSE, as have I.
On the issue of solutions that magically come to oneself only after one has asked for help, my experience is that the detailed thought process that you go through to adequately described the problem in order to ask for help is exactly the thought process that brings you to the answer yourself. It has happened to me many times before, and I’m sure you and I are not alone in that experience
Wow, you must have still been writing that reply when oldcpu posted, huh? Or you navigated away from the page/keyboard for a bit (ie you were distracted) and then finished it after oldcpu’s was finished…
Yeah, that also happens to me. A feature of Ubuntu Forums that we need here, undeniably, is the recent addition of a notifier that asks you to review your post to make sure it’s unaffected by a recent post that somebody wrote while you were still typing yours. gasp
… when I was a teenager, I took typing in summer school for two summers in a row, with my typing speed getting up to 70 words/minute. Over 4 decades later, I can’t do that now without making too many errors, but I figure despite my climbing age I managed to type just slight faster than julianop. rotfl! (or he was distracted, and my typing is now slower. ). …rotfl!
… where I am really slow in replying to a thread is when I have to put detailed technical content in side the post (which requires opening and reading my notes, opening and reading downloaded documentation, surfing sites, or doing searches on some sites to figure out the meaning of the documentation or to figure out the meaning of some error messages, and sometimes it takes time in just trialling the command/install on my sandbox PC).
I just bought a ClearChat Stereo and trying to use it on Skype but no luck. Sound is working fine but not the microphone. I just can’t get the microphone to work even without the headset. Everything in Kmix is turned up to max and nothing is muted.
I deleted Pulse Audia and am using ALSA because I thought that that was the problem but that still doesn’t help. I have an ASUS Notebook but my brother is having the same problem with with an older Thinkpad.
Using KDE 4.3 on openSuse 11.2.
Can somebody help please?
It would be much appreciated.
Culture, I recommend you start a new thread. The original thread was SOLVED and tagging on to someone else’s SOLVED thread is not going to get you the support you want.
). …rotfl!