USB Mic Recognized --but not working - need help to setup

[Dragonopolis]

I have both a KDE and a Gnome based Debian/Linux os. Linux Recognizes my sound devices correctly (ak5370 and alc650) just like Windows. However, when I click on input and change the sound device to my USB Mic it changes the output as well. This does the same thing when I click the output to my sound card. It changes my input device to the same thing.

Is there a current limitation of linux of only allowing one sound device at a time or is this a mixer problem (I currently use KMIX for KDE and gmix for Gnome) and can someone point to a mixer in linux that will allow multiple sound devices. If this is a ALSAconf problem I need my input to be Ak5370 and my output to be my ALC650 sound card how do you do that.
Please keep in mind when responding that I do come from a Windows background and my Linux knowledge is still in the Newbie stage. I have intermediate knowledge of how both KDE and Gnome work.

Now for my second problem

When I do choose my Logitech mic as a sound device, ( I lose sound when I do this) I still get no input. I check control center and the Mixer to make sure it isn't muted.

This is frustrating because I really like linux but I need my usb mic as I use my computer for voice communucation (NO phone). Until I solve this issue, I still have to dual boot which I am getting tired of.

PS. I have tried several Debian distros and I have narrowed my distros to Qilinux with KDE, Ubuntu with Gnome, and Knoppix 3.8 (my live CD). This problem occurs on every distro I have tried.

I really need a good walk through on setting up a usb mic and any help would be appreciated

[Shank158]

I'm having the same problem in Dapper Ubuntu with Gnome. My microphone is detected, but wont let me use it for TeamSpeak, Skype, etc.

[unc0nn3ct3d]

Wow, after spending hours and hours looking for this solution, then giving up, then trying again then giving up it is a done deal.. I can't believe I am actually able to use TS now in linux.

First of all you need to run the windows version of TS through WINE as the linux version is a complete POS and has zero support for USB mics and you may as well give up now before wasting the days that I have.

So get WINE installed if you haven't already
then go and download the windows version of TS2 and install it through Wine

Now from this point onwards I am going to assume you are using ALSA , if not then you have your own google adventure to go on.

So:

go into your home directory (cd ~) and create a file called ".asoundrc" minus the quotations of course with your favorite editor ( vi ./.asoundrc )
The .asoundrc file in your home directory acts as kind of a configuration file that is used to override default settings
Our goal here is to make our default capture device our USB mic and NOT our sound card, this is accomplished by inserting the following text into the .asoundrc file:

pcm.!default {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "hw:0,0"
}
capture.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "hw:2,0"
}
}


something to note: "hw:0,0" and "hw:2,0" are MY card locations for my soundblaster and my usb mic, yours might be different.

In order to find out what your desired output device is you type the following in terminal:

"aplay -l" and you should receive and output something like this:


**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


Obviously My card is 0 as that is the only one that shows up, so I use "hw:0,0"

now to find my capture device I type:
"aplay -l" and my output should be something like this:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: default [AK5370 ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Now we already know that Card 0 is my soundblaster, which I don't want to use, so we can rule that out.. The only other option(which is conveniently labeled USB Audio) is Card 2 so that means I used "hw:2,0" . Yours could be different so edit your .asoundrc file accodingly.

I quickly checked to make sure WINE was seeing my usb mic by running the command 'winecfg' and going into Audio and seeing the ALSA WAVE IN device show up as USB Audio.

I have Hardware Acceleration set to Emulation as well as Driver Emulation checked on, not sure if it matters but it is on for me and works.

Now this is literally all I needed to do. Much to my complete shock I can now run TS2 (windows version) through WINE just fine and dandy. You have no idea how much mucking about I've done with my system just to find out this was the easy fix.. I hope this helps someone else out there and saves them the time and energy.

cheers