Logitech V20 Speakers / PCLinuxOS 2010

[happytimelogan]

I can't get pclos to set my usb speakers as the default sound.
When I first loaded up pclos it sort of got them to work, but then when I restarted, it said they couldn't be used because either they were unplugged or the right driver was not installed.
Does anyone know what driver I have to use to get these speakers to work?

Thank you in advanced!

[MaddogF16]

In a terminal type "lspci" and paste back what came up please.

[happytimelogan]

I get:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce Go 6150] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

[jlf001]

Try this,

Open Configure Your Desktop, select Computer Administration, select Multimedia.  Are your USB speakers shown as an output device?  If so, set the preference from there and reboot.  You could also try PulseAudio, but I've experienced problems with some my systems. 4 out of 5 work with PulseAudio at present.

Jeff

[happytimelogan]

OK I got the speakers to work for most things by making them the prefered audio device.
However my computer seems to still use the internal speakers when browsing the internet...
How can I set my browser plugins / firefox itself to use usb speakers by default?

[jlf001]

Did you install PulseAudio?  That's the only way I've been able to get my USB speakers too work with Firefox.

Jeff

[happytimelogan]

Hmmm, well I'm pretty sure Pulse Audio is installed already because it is one of the options to make preferable under sound preferences.
However I have not tried to use it because I was told it was a little unstable.... but I will try that tonight.

[Was_Just19]

Hmmm, well I'm pretty sure Pulse Audio is installed already because it is one of the options to make preferable under sound preferences.
However I have not tried to use it because I was told it was a little unstable.... but I will try that tonight.

If more than Pulse is showing on the Multimedia list then Pulse is not fully installed ......  you need some more packages.
That is my experience here.

Make sure you have
padevchooser
pavucontrol
installed as well as other Pulse packages .....  alsa and such

When installed everything is done using Pulse, and controlled by the pavucontrol (Vol Control) and Device Chooser

Pulse when installed fully & correctly is a revelation!

You can send the sound from different apps to different speakers/headsets and completely control all the audio stream routing.

regards.