7.3 And USB Headphones

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Hi all!

I wish to give huge thankyous to KB and all the others who worked to get 7.3 out the door. Many thanks!

I have some good things and some bad. A good thing is that unlike previous versions, when I plug in my USB headphones they are automatically recognized and I get sound without having to change anything! (which is a huge win from before when I had to mess with settings, sometimes for a few minutes, to get headphone sound and microphone audio.)

The not so good thing is that I don’t have any working volume control for that sound. Nothing I have found will change the sound volume in the headphones except the little dongle-thing that is inline in the headphone cord. sometimes when messing with it strange things happen on the screen that I don’t understand, so I prefer to just leave it alone.

(one thing I don’t know is if the microphone is enabled, too, when it is plugged in… I’ll probably find out tomorrow when I have an online class.)

Anyone have any ideas how to get control over this?

thanks!

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  • OK, I should add:

    I’m using the Mate desktop (from epel).

    I’ve also discovered that pavucontrol works to control the sound, while alsamixer and the mate volume control do not.

    is there some way to have a single control that covers all the devices/inputs/outputs, so I don’t need to have both the mate volume control AND pavucontrol both running (visible) at the same time?

    Fred