USB headset sound is not enabled

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Two days beck i have installed EOS and when i try to attach USB enabled headphone, i am seeing the sound is not detecting the headset. Can anyone help me to setup this.

in inxi -Aa command shows

there are 3 Sound service ALSA and pipewire Running and PulseAudio not running. when i run Volume Control i get "Establishing connection to pulseaudio . please wait:

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Please post that inxi in the </> so we can see what you’re seeing instead of describing it to us. . .

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Sorry my bad :slight_smile:

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401
  Device-2: Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 08bb:2902
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 3-2.1:5
    chip-ID: 1d6c:0103 class-ID: 0102 serial: V011R007C002B005
  Device-4: Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-2.4:9 chip-ID: 08bb:2902
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.12-arch1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.47 running: yes
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That’s not abnormal that I’m aware of:

for me for instance also shows pules as not running (I don’t have it installed anymore) but pipewire is:

[derek@gnome ~]$ inxi -Aa
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.25-2-lts running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.47 running: yes
[derek@gnome ~]$

I see you’re on the latest kernel - have you tried the lts? Lots of things have issues on the latest.

Another thing - KDE for instance has a plugin changer thing that you can click and specify outputs in the taskbar. Gnome is in settings. Go through (especially KDE - you can turn volume off of certain apps, pic speakrs or bluetooth or headphones etc for each one even) and make sure it’s choosing the usb headphones.

Also I don’t see anything about Jack/Jack 2 - I would also recommend wireplumber over pulse-audio-session or jack or whatever it is if you’re not using it.

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What are the brand and model of the usb headphones?