Wireless headset for Xbox 360

[agmg]

The results from the above appear promising


Have you tried to get the earpiece to connect properly with the USB wireless unit?


Do you have PulseAudio installed on that PC?

Before going deep with Pulseaudio I would suggest you take the device to a Windows PC and test if it works there. Make the connection and see if the earpiece has sound. Once you make the connection between the earpiece and the receiver I guess it will probably be permanent. Then take it back to your PCLinuxOS machine and see if anything has changed.

It is a (very very very) wild guess I know. I'm making an assumption based on a personal experience with a very different product: a Logitech wireless keyboard. This keyboard uses the Unifying technology, which means that I can use one receiver to connect up to 10 compatible devices (I already had a compatible wireless mouse) and save my USB ports. This keyboard would only work under PCLinuxOS with its own receiver, but I wanted to make use of the Unifying technology and have only one receiver for both my mouse and keyboard. So I plugged the receiver to a Windows machine, added the keyboard through Logitech's software and when I got back to PCLinuxOS everything worked as it should...

[MCP]

The first thing to try is to disable PulseAudio in PCC and reboot ......  and then when the desktop has settled, enable it again and reboot. Go through this without launching any other apps.
Then try PA Vol Control again.

I tried that, still no go.  I did notice something interesting.  When I change the setting in pcc and press OK, I get the same screen again and I have to press OK for that one as well.  Then I looked in System Settings under Phonon and it lists 2 devices.  The primary is HDA ATI SB (ALC889A Analog), the second is HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output).  Could the second be interfering?

Just a thought,
MCP

[Just17]

The first thing to try is to disable PulseAudio in PCC and reboot ......  and then when the desktop has settled, enable it again and reboot. Go through this without launching any other apps.
Then try PA Vol Control again.

I tried that, still no go.  I did notice something interesting.  When I change the setting in pcc and press OK, I get the same screen again and I have to press OK for that one as well.  Then I looked in System Settings under Phonon and it lists 2 devices.  The primary is HDA ATI SB (ALC889A Analog), the second is HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output).  Could the second be interfering?

Just a thought,
MCP

The double appearance of the page in PCC has been happening for a little while, so it is now not anything to be concerned about.

You have two sound sink devices.
One has speakers connected presumably.
The other one goes through the HDMI for TV or such.

When you have no sound at all, the likely explanation is that the sound is being routed to the device which you are not using, and thus although the sound is working you cannot hear it.

Maybe this would get your PulseAudio working .....

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105480.0.html

[MCP]

When you have no sound at all, the likely explanation is that the sound is being routed to the device which you are not using, and thus although the sound is working you cannot hear it.

Maybe this would get your PulseAudio working .....

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105480.0.html

I have not lost sound.  It continues to work, I assume through the previous configuration.  I tried the suggestion in the post you listed but all I get is this:

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work.

What does that mean?  Are we getting closer?

MCP

[Just17]

When you have no sound at all, the likely explanation is that the sound is being routed to the device which you are not using, and thus although the sound is working you cannot hear it.

Maybe this would get your PulseAudio working .....

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105480.0.html

I have not lost sound.  It continues to work, I assume through the previous configuration.  I tried the suggestion in the post you listed but all I get is this:

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work.

What does that mean?  Are we getting closer?

MCP

That output often means that the required modules to have PulseAudio work have not been loaded for some reason.
So, PulseAudio is not presently enabled/working.

I do not know why this happens on some installs and not on others 

What I suggest is the following ....  to see if it will help .......

disable PA in PCC - Hardware - Sound  and reboot immediately

immediately on reboot, enable PA again, and shut off the PC, and withdraw power for ~1 min

Power up again and after the DE has settled try opening  pavucontrol  and report back what you see.

Hopefully that should get it working .......

[MCP]

When you have no sound at all, the likely explanation is that the sound is being routed to the device which you are not using, and thus although the sound is working you cannot hear it.

Maybe this would get your PulseAudio working .....

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105480.0.html

I have not lost sound.  It continues to work, I assume through the previous configuration.  I tried the suggestion in the post you listed but all I get is this:

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work.

What does that mean?  Are we getting closer?

MCP

That output often means that the required modules to have PulseAudio work have not been loaded for some reason.
So, PulseAudio is not presently enabled/working.

I do not know why this happens on some installs and not on others  

What I suggest is the following ....  to see if it will help .......

disable PA in PCC - Hardware - Sound  and reboot immediately

immediately on reboot, enable PA again, and shut off the PC, and withdraw power for ~1 min

Power up again and after the DE has settled try opening  pavucontrol  and report back what you see.

Hopefully that should get it working .......

Sorry about that.  Here is my reply:

Well I'm back to report that this is one other try that didn't do anything.  Pulse Audio Volume Control still reports "Connection Failed: Connection refused"

I did notice that when I start my XP vm in VirtualBox it reports that no audio is available because the correct controller is not selected.  Could this be an indication that it's trying to connect?

MCP

[Just17]

is there a reply in there someplace?  it is all a quote as I see it ........