Mic is not working with Platronics wireless USB headset in CentOS

**Andre Patton** · 04-05-2011

Hello friends, I am facing some problem with palntronics wireless headset. I am using CentOS version 5.5 at my place. I am trying to connect wireless USB headset within it, but mic is not supporting in it. I have tried to connect it with many ways, for every type I tried coding but it is not working properly. My current code is as below:

Code:

-=[slimg00dy@localhost: /mnt/signature-drive-320/Downloads/iplist/fedora]=-  $ cat /proc/asound/version 
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 (Wed Mar 14 07:25:50 2007 UTC).

Can anyone help please? Thanks a lot in advance.

**teena_pansare** · 04-05-2011

Just try to set the staus in below way:

Code:

-=[slimg00dy@localhost: /mnt/signature-drive-320/Downloads/iplist/fedora]=-  $ amixer -c 1
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 34
  Mono: Playback 26 [76%] [-20.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: Capture 0 - 28
  Mono: Capture 21 [75%] [-7.00dB] [on]

I hope it will solve your problem, just try it and do me reply about it. All the Best!

**Ekpah** · 04-05-2011

Hey I have gone through to your problem, if above doesn’t work for you then try to set amixer, alsamixer and xfce4-mixer, so that it will turn on our mic. Use following code for that:

Code:

-=[slimg00dy@localhost: /mnt/signature-drive-320/Downloads/iplist/fedora]=-  $ cat /proc/asound/card1/stream0 
Plantronics Wireless Audio Plantronics Wireless Audio at usb-0000:00:1d.7-3.2,  : USB Audio

Playback:
  Status: Running
    Interface = 1
    Altset = 1
    URBs = 3 [ 8 8 6 ]
    Packet Size = 288
    Momentary freq = 48000 Hz (0x30.0000)
  Interface 1
    Altset 1
    Format: 0x2
    Channels: 2
    Endpoint: 1 OUT (ADAPTIVE)
    Rates: 8000, 11025, 16000, 22050, 24000, 32000, 44100, 48000

Capture:
  Status: Stop
  Interface 2
    Altset 1
    Format: 0x2
    Channels: 1
    Endpoint: 2 IN (ASYNC)
    Rates: 16000

it will surely solve your problem. All the Best

**Dolsy_bendal** · 04-05-2011

Hey I have gone through to your problem, and I have done some more search on it, and I came to know that you might not have tried with arecord. Just try to do some changes in arecord. It will solve your problem. first try to apply above setting, if it doesn’t work for you then so some changes in arecord. Because sometime it happens that big coding gets affected by some silly mistakes. So just try this and if you find, it is working for you then reply to this post.

**Andre Patton** · 06-05-2011

Hello friends, I have through to my problem. I just wanted to say that, before applying the setting to sound region, when I was making changes in arecors, it was giving me “device is busy” error. After that I applied the settings mentioned in the second post, and then I again did some changes in the arecord. It was working, thanks a lot friend without you all it was not possible for me to come out of this problem. I love CentOS.