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bilgee0629

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Registered: 2011-01-29

Posts: 57

Headsets are still not working under kernel 3.0

My headset hasn't worked kernel 2.x nor 3.0. Btw my headset has worked under the latest version of ubuntu.

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: Headsets are still not working under kernel 3.0

That's really not enough information for us to work on, we'll need to know a little more.

- What headset are you using? (brand, model, type... bluetooth, wired?)
- What laptop are you using (again; brand, model)
- What sound system are you using (ALSA? OSS? Pulseaudio yes or no?)
- What desktop are you using (KDE, Gnome, LXDE...)

It could be as simple as the microphone channel being muted or low volume.

Anyway, we'll need some more info

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Arch i686 on Phenom X4 | GTX760

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Headsets are still not working under kernel 3.0

The in-kernel ALSA is different, surprisingly, to the alsa-driver from ALSA. For example, I need to install alsa-driver, because the in-kernel code in kernel 2.6.39.4 doesn't use all 6 speakers in surround51 for my Acer 8930g laptop.

So, in my kernel config, I have just:

$ zgrep SOUND /proc/config.gz 
CONFIG_SOUND=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set

$ zgrep SND /proc/config.gz 
# CONFIG_SND is not set

So anyway, try that, then look at packages.ubuntu.com for Ubuntu's patches to alsa-driver.