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jpirie

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Registered: 2012-08-03

Posts: 14

No audio or mic input from headset

Hello Arch friends, I am trying to solve an issue where I have no sound or input from the microphone on the headset I am using.

The headset in question is a wireless headset that communicates with a USB dongle. It is this product: https://www.pdp.com/en/lvl50-wireless-s … for-xbo-na

I am using an updated Arch system (just did a pacman -Syu before doing some of my checks) at time of writing, Uname -a output is: Linux laptop 5.10.5-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:50:43 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

On my system I am using alsa and pulseaudio and sound out of the laptop speakers is working fine, and input from the microphone present in the laptop is also working fine, for what it's worth.

Output of dmesg:

[ 3552.461205] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[ 3552.603442] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0e6f, idProduct=0234, bcdDevice= 0.02
[ 3552.603448] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 3552.603452] usb 1-1: Product: PDPGaming LVL50 Wireless for XboxOne (Dongle)
[ 3552.603455] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Performance Designed Products
[ 3552.603457] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 000038E2CE3C5DB2
[ 3552.607291] input: Generic X-Box pad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input29

The detected USB devices:

19:59:08 $ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:5682 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Integrated_Webcam_HD
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:6412 Broadcom Corp. BCM2045A0
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0e6f:0234 Logic3 PDPGaming LVL50 Wireless for XboxOne (Dongle)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Output of aplay -l:

19:55:50 $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3246 Analog [ALC3246 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Detected cards (output of cat /proc/asounds/cards)

19:59:00 $ cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xdc728000 irq 137

I am sure I'm forgotten something crucial, please let me know and I will supply any further diagnostic information.

My understanding is that the system is correctly detecting the dongle (from lsusb) but I am supposed to have some sound card that maps to that device (?) but nothing has been created automatically. In the dmesg output there I see reference to X-box pads... wondering if that stick is somehow being picked up as a gamepad?

Thanks a lot!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,353

Re: No audio or mic input from headset

Looks like this is specifically an xbox dongle. This isn't going to work with plain ALSA regardless but a bit of cursory googling shows that this might be implemented as part of the xow library eventually but initial plans seem to have been discarded: https://github.com/medusalix/xow/issues/4

jpirie

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Registered: 2012-08-03

Posts: 14

Re: No audio or mic input from headset

Thanks for the fast reply! Had been looking at that but not sure if it was actually what I was looking for, thanks for your eyes :-).

If that's the case it sounds like a solution is just not possible here for me, thanks for the input all the same.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,353

Re: No audio or mic input from headset

Doesn't look like it, unless you find some switch to switch to an explicit PC mode or so, the headset I have has that and it registers itself as a normal USB audio in that case.