On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:20:00AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Sean Greenslade wrote: > > > There are two places in pavucontrol where you will need to verify > > things. Did you try the things I recommended in my previous email? What were the results? By the way, I noticed in the pactl output you provided that you have the stereo volumes unlocked, and that the left channel is set to 8% while the right channel is set to 100%. If that was not intentional, you should go into pavucontrol, go to the "Output Devices" tab, set both volume sliders to 100%, and click the padlock symbol ("Lock channels together"). > I did a lot of poking in the system. Here's the relevant lines in dmesg: > # dmesg > [4721657.287134] usb 1-11: new full-speed USB device number 49 using xhci_hcd > [4721657.877083] usb 1-11: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0a56, bcdDevice= 1.03 > [4721657.877086] usb 1-11: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 > [4721657.877088] usb 1-11: Product: Logitech H570e Stereo > [4721657.877089] usb 1-11: Manufacturer: Logitech Inc > [4721657.877091] usb 1-11: SerialNumber: 00000000 > [4721658.041812] usb 1-11: Warning! Unlikely big volume range (=4125), cval->res is probably > wrong. > [4721658.041816] usb 1-11: [11] FU [Sidetone Playback Volume] ch = 1, val = 0/4125/1 > [4721658.180916] input: Logitech Inc Logitech H570e Stereo Consumer Control as > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-11/1-11:1.3/0003:046D:0A56.0014/input/input > 53 > [4721658.233326] input: Logitech Inc Logitech H570e Stereo as > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-11/1-11:1.3/0003:046D:0A56.0014/input/input > 54 > [4721658.233482] hid-generic 0003:046D:0A56.0014: input,hiddev96,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device > [Logitech Inc Logitech H570e Stereo] on usb-0000:01:00.0-11/input3 This warning is probably irrelevant to your issue. Note that it refers to the "Sidetone Playback Volume", which is a feature of some headsets where some of the microphone's signal is played back through the headphones to help you modulate your speech better. That likely won't have any effect on normal audio playback. > When I entered the Warning! in duckduckgo I found a 7-year-old thread on a > red hat forum. There I learned about the 'pactl list' command. Running that > here poured out a lot of output. The sections on the Logitech headset are in > the attached gzipped text file. > > I don't understand why but I see what's probably the underlying cause. I > hope that your expertise can translate it to explain what I need to do about > the suspended and other non-working parts. The sound cards are all suspended because there are no active programs playing sound, called "sink inputs" in pulseaudio parlance. Try starting up an audio player and running "pactl list sink-inputs". You should see the details of the application, as well as the sink number that it is feeding its audio to. "pactl list sinks" will show the sound cards and their states. Once something is feeding audio to a card, its state should automatically transition to RUNNING. --Sean _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss