Sennheiser USB Headphone PC36

English Multimedia
#1

This seams a little bit tricky to me.
I have SUSE 12.1 and sound is working fine. I attached the “Sennheiser USB Headphone PC36” and tried to use it, the youtube uses always the internal sound card. First I thought I need a sound driver, reading the Sennheiser web site I found out, that no driver should be needed, because the PC36 ships with its own sound card.
So I retried configuration, I put the Sennheiser at the first place, tested it, and it works !!! The configuration item in the task bar changed also. Anyway the browser does not use the Sennheiser, but the internal sound card only.
The problem is, how to tell an application which sound card to use ?
This seems a problem of ALSA …

Thank you very much for any advice …

best
Eryk

#2

The application pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol) allows one to ‘tell an application’ which sound device to use. Just run pavucontrol at the same time (first time) one is running a multimedia application. In the pavucontrol output tab be certain to show all output devices. In the pavucontrol playback tab, be certain to show all streams.