Plantronics USB headset works in Ubuntu but not Fedora

[icheyne]

Hi all

I am trying to transition to Fedora 7, and so far it's been easy, but I can't get my new USB headset working in Skype.

It's a Plantronics .Audio 500 USB.

Both "less /proc/asound/cards" and "less /proc/asound/devices" show that it is detected fine.

I can get the headphones to work by setting the usb devices in the Skype settings, but not the mike. I used the same config in Ubuntu Feisty and it worked perfectly.

Most of the guides say to mess about with alsaconf, but it is not installed on Fedora and it's not in the repositories under that name.

Any ideas?

[Dies]

Make sure it's not muted.

If you're using Gnome double-click the speaker icon in the system tray then click on preferences and select anything relevant so you can adjust it, a lot of stuff is muted/not shown by default.

[icheyne]

It was muted.

Using the soundcard number out of /proc/asound/cards, I tried:

alsamixergui -c 1
or
alsamixer -c 1

I unmuted the mike and after that it worked fine.

As soon as I did that I was able to test Skype using the automatic test user - echo123.

Apparently, the microphone is muted by default because of feedback problems with some laptops on boot.

[archimede]

Hi.

I have a similar problem.

I installed Fedora7 on my new Dell Laptop and my USB headset (Plantronics DSP300) seems to be working fine.

The problem is, as soon as I try to change volume level all USB devices stop working. For example, right after booting I go to System -> Administration -> Sound card detection, play a test sound (works), try to lower volume level and bang! sound stops and the mixer_applet2 process goes in an "uninterruptible" state (and, when I reboot, the shutdown process hangs at "Saving mixer settings").

FWIW, I always let package manager do its updates when it finds some.

Oh, and... did I mention I'm a Linux newbie?

TIA for your assistance.

Alessandro