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mrflibble

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Registered: 2016-09-30

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Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

How do i make it so that i can control the volume adjustment with the buttons on my logitech G35?(scroll whell), it works under windows, linuxmint and manjaro.
So i dont know whats wrong and how make it work. I have search around but no luck. its a fresh install.

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ewaller

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Re: Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

Welcome to Arch Linux.

One of the beautiful things of Arch Linux is that is a blank canvas.  You get to set it up the way you want.
The problem is, you cannot assume we have any idea what your system configure is like; you have to tell us.

Audio chipset? Pulseaudio? Jack? Are you using Xorg? Which window manger / desktop environment?

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mrflibble

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Registered: 2016-09-30

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Re: Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

Hi there.

Audio chipset is Realtek ALC1150 Codec (msi Z87-GD65 GAMING motherboard)

First i installed alsa, then i installed pulseaudio and threw in  pulseaudio-alsa and the pavucontrol packeges. I do get sound and i can control everything trough pavucontrol and it does recognize my USB headset.

Xorg are installed and im using xfce4 window manger.

Thanks.

The base installed is easiest thing when it comes to install archlinux on this system. But after that, it get alot more harder for me.

frank604

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Re: Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

What DE are you using?

seth

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Re: Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

"and im using xfce4"

@mrflibble, what do you intend? Use the mousewheel as a global shortcut to alter the volume, ie. no matter where you scroll, nothing will scroll but the volume changes instead??

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Steef435

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Re: Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

The logitech G35 headset has a "scrollwheel", it's not about the mouse mousewheel I believe.

There are many tools which you can use to bind actions to buttons. First of all, find out what button the wheel maps to. When the X server is running, open a terminal and run "xev -event keyboard". Fiddle with the wheel to find out what the keysim for the wheel is (both for "up" and "down").

Now you know the buttons you can map them to an action (raising/lowering volume). Xfce has a built in tool for that apparently: http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/keyboard

Incidentally, the second picture on that page also gives you a *big* hint as to what action you should bind the buttons to

mrflibble

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Re: Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

@frank604, what is DE?

@seth, maybe scrollwheel isn't the right term for the wheel on the headset. Im sorry about that.

@Steef435, that was easy. Thanks, it does work now.

The problem is solved now, thanks for the help.

zebulon

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Re: Adjust the volume with USB headset, how? [SOLVED]

@frank604, what is DE?

Desktop Environment.