Can’t listen to YouTube videos from usb headphone on Debian

[Heidi!]

Am having 2 computers at my home, one with XP and other is with Debian OS. I am not able to figure out why my USB headphone is not working on Debian based computer. I could not get any kind of sound while playing music file or video file on my system. Even I am not able to listen audio on YouTube.

Let me know if there is any solution to overcome above mentioned issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

[aSITA]

If you are having alsa/gstreamer set up, simply execute following command on Terminal.

gstreamer-properties

In case above mentioned thing does not work, simply install pulseaudio (pavucontrol) by executing following.

apt-get install pavucontrol pulseaudio

Once you have done with installation process you can try to edit volume settings.

[Phalguni88]

Provide the output of following command

lscpi

If you are having couple of USB sound card such as USB sound card and Onboard sound card. I recommend that you should turn off onboard sound card from BIOS setup and see whether it works for you.

[Addison]

You can try following workaround and let me know about the result. Make sure that you are supposed to perform all the activities as superuser of the system.

Execute ‘lsusb’ without quotes on terminal and press enter. Now exter the following command.

nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

You need to change snd-usb-audi index=-2. Normally it has value ‘0’, however you can get try with ‘1’ also. After that simply hit Ctrl, X , Y and Enter key together.

Click on Startmenu, Preferences , Startup applications. In the resulting window simply left click on Add button. Once you there, enter the following command in the Terminal.

/etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop

alsa force-reload & /etc/init.d/alsa-utils

Save it and close all windows.