Getting sound to work through my headset instead of my speakers

[reddem0n]

I'm trying to make it so I can hear sound through my headset instead of my speakers, anyone know how I can do this?

[JohnVV]

besides plugging in the headphones and tunning off the speakers
right click the speaker icon and click on "open volume control"
then click the "edit" / Preferences
and put a check in the headphones box

[reddem0n]

No headphones box. Headphones were already plugged in.

[JohnVV]

what sound card is installed in your system
is your system a desktop or laptop
what sound system are you using pluse, alsa, oss,esd
and are you running fedora 8 or fedora 7 or fedora 6 or 5 or 4

[reddem0n]

fedora 8 everything updated x64 version, audigy 2 zs card, desktop.....and using the alsa sound system

[JohnVV]

dose this apply
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F...82fce6beb1433c
and see if you turned off some services you need on
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f8.html
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i am running a creative sound blaster card using pulse audio ( with the alsa plugin)
there is no headphone check box on yours

[reddem0n]

Just tried running consolekit through terminal, this is what I get...not sure if this means it wasn't running and is running now or just indicating that its running fine

[root@localhost Zad]# /etc/init.d/ConsoleKit start
Starting ConsoleKit: [ OK ]

Also checking through the services I saw that "klogd" was the only one I didn't find in the list of services on my computer.

[JohnVV]

well if you did not do this
yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
witch i recommend you do not do then you are using pulseaudio and not alsa
during the install there is a sound test did you run it and did you here the sound
it is in
System/Administration/Soundcard Detection
also as in the screen shot above click on file and select change device ( the top one should be your sound card with ( Alsa Mixer) next to it
also look at this thread
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=171083
can you post the output of

rpm -qa | grep pulse

you may need to write some files and install some programs
to start you can look here
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhsound.html
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f8.html

[reddem0n]

pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.8-5.fc8
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.8-5.fc8
gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.4.svn20070924.fc8
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8

[reddem0n]

Automatic detection of the sound card did not work. This audio device will not be available on the system.

You can find log files /root/scsconfig.log, /root/scsrun.log and file a new bug
at http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

Please click OK to continue.


Message I Got while trying to do the automatic sound card detection...which from what it seems it got the right one my audigy 2 zs...but when I Tried testing the sound , I didn't hear any sound..and yeah i made sure everything was high up :P

[vamped]

I had this problem too, but was able to find a work-around although not a complete solution.

Applications > Sound & Video > PulseAudio Volume Control

While playing an audio clip, Playback tab > right clicked application that is running > Move Stream > checked USB headphones, and sound started coming from the headphones.

Also, Output Devices tab, you can right click the headphones and check Default if you want it to be your default device (which I didn't).

What would be ideal is for the headphones to be the default output device when they are plugged in, but not when they are not. If anyone has further information that would be nice.

I'm using F8-64 bit, Intel audio chipset.