I bought a new headset for my laptop two days ago. Since the store did not have many options available, I went for a Combat Argom Tech piece that is more expensive than the headsets that I normally buy.
However, I did not pay attention to one detail: this headset does not have a plug to a standard headphone jack, but has a USB connection. When I plugged it to one of the USB ports of my laptop, which I booted with PCLinuxOS, the computer speakers reproduced sound but I could hear nothing with the headphones. I looked at the audio icon on the task bar, where there was an entry for "Multimedia headset [Gigaware by Ignition L.P.] and noticed that I could listen to sound by sliding the volume control, but there was no audio from YouTube videos and audio players. So, I clicked on the audio settings and selected the Multimedia headset option as default. This simple action solved the problem both on PCLinuxOS, Mageia 6, and Fedora 29:
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| Settings on Plasma--PCLinuxOS |
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| Settings on Plasma--Mageia 6 |
OpenMandriva Lx 3, however, required no action from me because the headset was working out of the box.
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| Settings on Plasma--OpenMandriva Lx 3 |
With OpenMandriva, the headphones were also functional for playing on Steam without any intervention from me.
On Fedora 29, I had to change to Windowed screen in each game individually to be able to tick the box in Plasma like this:
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| Plasma settings for Steam game "Melody's Escape"--Fedora 29 |
UPDATE: Fedora 30 was released two days ago. Just as with OpenMandriva Lx, the headset was fully functional for Steam games.
I could not do this on Mageia, so no sound for Steam games on that OS.
UPDATE: Almost a week after I posted this, I booted Mageia and ran Steam. The headset is working perfectly now and I did not do anything. Steam is not available on PCLinuxOS, I believe, so I did not try on that OS.
As for Elive 3, to enable the headset, one has to go to the sound configuration from the menu:
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| After doing this, you might need to logout and log back in to listen |
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| Once completed the process, the audio players can send sound to the headset |
I do not run Steam on Elive, so I do not know if this process can work for that particular purpose.
