I broke it!

[Runaway1956]

Was playing with sound, and turned off the default sound manager. Since there are serious gaps in my Linux knowledge, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to turn it back on.

I've not uninstalled anything, nor installed anything new, since sound worked last, but I have mucked about the settings, trying to find the "turn it back on" function, lol

What command do I need to restart the default sound manager? GUI will work, but I prefer the CLI, I think. That should be easier to remember, if I mess it up again.

[Runaway1956]

Oh. I have sound, again, sort of. I rebooted the machine to the Ultimate Edition 2.0 DVD, where sound worked fine, then booted back to the installed Ultimate Edition 1.9

I use a Plantronics USB headset, and I have sound in the right side only. Which, is why I was fooling with the sound manager to start with. When playing with the sound icon in the system tray, I could adjust volume in the right side, but the left side was unresponsive.

Anyway, I don't have the icon anymore, and don't know it's name.

Any help would be appreciated, because I expect that I may have the same problem once Ultimate Edition 2.0 is installed.

[Runaway1956]

That worked, Thank you Strider.

The left control still stubbornly resists being adjusted. When I attempt to move the slider, I get a momentary sound on the left, then it stops, and the slider returns to the bottom.

Oh well - maybe when I install 2.0 it will fix itself.

[Runaway1956]

That is exactly where I am at. Since I don't have speakers hooked up to the system, it looks quite different than your image.

I can adjust the right side anywhere I wish, and it stays. Adjusting the left side is pointless, as it always returns to the bottom.

[Runaway1956]

It will chain them together, but then I have no volume at all. Both sides go to the bottom. Unchaining them allows me to raise the right side again.

[Runaway1956]

Plantronics .Audio 550 DSP USB Headphones


http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/review ... ull-review

I no longer have the box - I think the wife did some housecleaning and threw it out. I don't recall much of anything that accompanied the headset, certainly there was nothing in the way of Linux support. I just plugged them in, and they worked, lol

I have to go to work, so I'll check back tonight, around midnight.

Later

[Runaway1956]

Well, I played and played with the volume control. As I said earlier, generally, if I pushed the slider up, it would play sound momentarily. I fooled with it, and it would "stick" on for a second or two, while I held it with the mouse button down. After fooling around, it finally "stuck" and stayed when I released it.

I'm not fooling with it anymore! It is going to stay just like it is until I install Ultimate Edition 2.0!