USB headset not selectable in Output tab of Sound Preferences

A forums thread exists on this topic over at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10755351.

same problem here, with my usb headset (0d8c:000c) after upgrading to natty, when I plug them in I get:

cannot find the slot for index 0 (range 0-0), error: -16
cannot create card instance 0
snd-usb-audio: probe of 2-2:1.0 failed with error -5

Same here:

May 2 21:22:55 mlaptop kernel: [92276.300105] usb 2-6: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
May 2 21:22:55 mlaptop kernel: [92276.732196] input: Logitech Logitech USB Headset as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-6/2-6:1.3/input/input11
May 2 21:22:55 mlaptop kernel: [92276.732543] generic-usb 0003:046D:0A02.0004: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [Logitech Logitech USB Headset] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-6/input3

This was working perfectly in lucid & maverick. Very upset. I *like* my headphones!

More info:

After plugging in, Sound Preferences dialog shows in hardware tab:

   Premium Stereo USB Headset 350
   1 Output/1 Input
   Analog Stereo Output + Analog Mono Input

If I press the button "Test Speakers", the Sound Preferences window closes, as if crashed. No sound.

Headphone input device does not show in Input tab.

Headphone output device does not show in output tab.

Dennis: Please change the status to "Confirmed", so that maintainers will actually look at this. Thanks!

> If I press the button "Test Speakers", the Sound Preferences window closes, as if crashed.

That's another bug, which I opened as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/775338. Please confirm that one too. :)

Launching gnome-volume-control from terminal, and clicking "Test Speakers" results in:

$ gnome-volume-control
**
ERROR:gvc-speaker-test.c:390:get_channel_map_for_card: assertion failed: (stream)
Aborted
$

this bug about test speakers crash should be unrelated to the headphone missing problem, at least for me I cannot use my usb headphone but the "test speaker" function of my standard onboard audio is fine.

I think we should follow Colan advice and post about the test speaker crash on the bug #775338

To me, they seem related. I can "Test Speakers" on the standard audio, but not on the headphones. I suppose a hardware driver bug could be exposing an unrelated gnome-volume-control bug, though. All of this worked fine in lucid & maverick.

This is more than just "nice to have" for me - I use the headset / microphone extensively for speech recognition. This bug has completely removed that capability.

I can confirm the same symptoms as above - usb headset / mike appears in "hardware", but not in input or output. Sound preferences also crashes if you attempt to test the speakers.

For some reason, my headphones began working automagically last night. No idea why, but now everything works fine. Gnome-volume-control doesn't crash anymore, and the headphone shows up in output and is selectable. Go figure.

I couldn't afford to wait for a fix, so I re-installed 10.10. I didn't realise just how much I had configured over the years of Ubuntu upgrades; it took up a lot of time getting back to where I was - a shame this one caused me to revert and spoil the good record.

Although I could install 11.04 on my laptop to try ..

This bug is unfortunately affecting me aswell, and my USB Headset is quite important to me for Guild Vent and the like. Doing a "killall pulseaudio" will make the device show up and such however, and it seems to be working fine after that, including the "test speaker" button. Will report back after more testing.

still affected by this bug, killall pulseaudio doesn't help, infact the usb headset simply won't show in my /proc/asound/cards nor in my hardware tab of the gnome volume manager

I still can see it listed unders lsusb

Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter

the fact that Dennis found his headphones working magically again out of nothing probably only proves that it's completely unrelated to the matter, none of us that cant even see the device in the hardware tab can, infact, experience any kind of crash with gnome-volume-manager or test speaker so as I already said I'd suggest to keep the bugs separated

lsusb -v shows:

Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter
Device Descriptor:
  bLength 18
  bDescriptorType 1
  bcdUSB 1.10
  bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass 0
  bDeviceProtocol 0
  bMaxPacketSize0 64
  idVendor 0x0d8c C-Media Electronics, Inc.
  idProduct 0x000c Audio Adapter
  bcdDevice 1.00
  iManufacturer 0
  iProduct 1 C-Media USB Headphone Set
  iSerial 0
  bNumConfigurations 1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength 9
    bDescriptorType 2
    wTotalLength 253
    bNumInterfaces 4
    bConfigurationValue 1
    iConfiguration 0
    bmAttributes 0xa0
      (Bus Powered)
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower 100mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength 9
      bDescriptorType 4
      bInterfaceNumber 0
      bAlternateSetting 0
      bNumEndpoints 0
      bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
      bInterfaceSubClass 1 Control Device
      bInterfaceProtocol 0
      iInterface 0
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength 10
        bDescriptorType 36
        bDescriptorSubtype 1 (HEADER)
        bcdADC 1.00
        wTotalLength 100
        bInCollection 2
        baInterfaceNr( 0) 1
        baInterfaceNr( 1) 2
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength 12
        bDescriptorType 36
        bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID 1
        wTerminalType 0x0101 USB Streaming
        bAssocTerminal 0
        bNrChannels 2
        wChannelConfig 0x0003
          Left Front (L)
          Right Front (R)
        iChannelNames 0
        iTerminal 0
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength 12
        bDescriptorType 36
        bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID 2
        wTerminalType 0x0201 Microphone
        bAssocTerminal 0
        bNrChannels 1
        wChannelConfig 0x0001
          Left Front (L)
        iChannelNames 0
        iTerminal 0
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength 9
        bDescriptorType 36
        bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID 6
        wTerminalType 0x0301 Speaker
        bAssocTerminal 0
        bSourceID 9
        iTerminal 0
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength 9
        bDescriptorType 36
        bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID 7
        wTerminalType 0x0101 USB Streaming
        bAssocTerminal 0
        bSourceID 8
        iTerminal 0
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:...

I have changed nothing, except to apply updates, and now things seem to be working. Has this been fixed or has it just gone away? Anyone else still seeing the problem?

fixed for me as well

2011/6/1 David Sowerby <email address hidden>

> I have changed nothing, except to apply updates, and now things seem to
> be working. Has this been fixed or has it just gone away? Anyone else
> still seeing the problem?
>
> --
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775345
>
> Title:
> USB headset not selectable in Output tab of Sound Preferences
>
> Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-media
>
> After upgrading from Maverick to Natty, my USB headset shows up in the
> Hardware tab, but not the Output tab. Hence, it is no longer
> selectable as an output device.
>
> Details when plugging in headset:
> "May 2 01:59:17 tiger kernel: [84407.100862] usb 2-2.1.3: new full speed
> USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12
> May 2 01:59:17 tiger kernel: [84407.285825] input: Logitech Logitech USB
> Headset as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb2/2-2/2-2.1/2-2.1.3/2-2.1.3:1.3/input/input9
> May 2 01:59:17 tiger kernel: [84407.285936] generic-usb
> 0003:046D:0A02.0006: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [Logitech Logitech
> USB Headset] on usb-0000:00:04.1-2.1.3/input3"
>
> Details in Hardware tab:
> "Premium Stereo USB Headset 350
> 1 Output
> Analog Stereo Output"
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: gnome-media 2.32.0-0ubuntu7
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon May 2 01:52:08 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
> (20100427.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/zsh
> LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: gnome-media
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (1 days ago)
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Also fixed for me

I got this problem tonight. I've had it in the past but I thought it had been fixed. Doing a 'killall pulseaudio' fixed it.

It works for me too now, and I opened this one. Marking as fixed.

Nick: Maybe you've got another problem?

This still affects me. GN 2000 USB headset. I plug it in, and it shows up in PA's Volume Control under "Configuration" but it is not shown under Output Devices or Input Devices. Likewise for the KDE volume control.

lsusb:

Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0b0e:2000 GN Netcom

Syslog when I plug in:

Aug 17 12:15:07 localhost kernel: [16412.053770] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
Aug 17 12:15:07 localhost kernel: [16412.399411] input: GN Netcom GN 2000 USB as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.3/input/input14
Aug 17 12:15:07 localhost kernel: [16412.399670] generic-usb 0003:0B0E:2000.0006: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [GN Netcom GN 2000 USB] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input3

Looks like it's back in 11.10, Oneiric.

Marked as a regression.

confirm it's back in Oneiric.

Just adding I'm experiencing this too. #19's fix of killing Pulse fixes (or should that be fudges) it for me.

something happened with last updates, the usb device is there, but no input or output in volume control

I have not tried to use sound for a while, so this may relate to the updates noted by David Robert Lewis ... I am back where I was in my post here of 2011-05-04 (#10):

usb headset / mike appears in "hardware", but not in input or output. Sound preferences also crashes if you attempt to test the speakers.

I tried the killall pulseaudio of #19 and this made the headset appear in the outputs (but no mike on the inputs). The "test speakers" function no longer causes a crash - but there is no sound, so it is not much of an improvement!

There certainly seems to be a regression issue here on the updates, I had be using this headset regularly for speech recognition until about 3 months ago

I am not sure whether this will help anyone, but I have just checked my laptop, which is also running 11.04 (the comment above relates to my desktop).

The laptop was last updated on 28 June, and works fine.

The desktop has had 3 updates since then and exhibits the problems described in #27

Pure guesswork, but the most likely candidate seems to be the update on the 30 June, principally because it contains firmware and kernel updates.

I am glad to see this bug because I reached my end about 5 min ago.

I have the exact behavior as is described above, i.e. usb headset and no devices listed in the input and output tabs of the sound manager, but I possibly have 2 added complications. No 1, I am running ubuntu precise (12.04) and No 2, I am running a ltsp version with the client needing to see the usb headset (We have a callcenter to which we will roll out this setup). I cannot sudo from the client as the server holds the user permissions, and the server does not reflect any pulseaudio processes, even if I chroot the image directory. I don't want to fluff the issue here, but if there is any help of any kind it will be one step further than I am now.

My device registers as (dmesg):
input: Micronas DASAN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.3/input/input5
generic-usb 0003:074D:3556.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [Micronas DASAN] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-2/input3

lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 074d:3556 Micronas GmbH Composite USB-Device

aplay -l:
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

uname -a:
Linux ltsp51 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:04:05 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

This was a modprobe issue for me.

I had the following line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

  options snd-usb-audio index=0

Removing that line resolved the issue. The headset is assigned index 2 instead of index 0, as 0 and 1 are taken by my sound cards.

I upgrade to 12.04 a little while back, but have been using my headset quite a bit recently - without any problems. I'm afraid I can't throw any light on when it was fixed, but it is working for me at least.

I had this on a previous kernel, then it went away and now it has come back. 3.2.0-60-generic-pae #91-Ubuntu SMP .
Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo T61P.

In 'sound settings' the headset shows in the 'hardware' tab, but not in 'input' or 'output'.

In pavucontrol it shows in the input devices, but not in output. Previously, tinkering in pavucontrol made it come back. Not this time.

I *think* I can make it work by ensuring that the headset is unplugged when I login and then plugging it in later. This trick works at least some of the time.

That bug is old and about gnome-media which is not even used anymore, if you still have the issue in newer Ubuntu version you should probably open a new bug against gnome-control-center or unity-control-center instead

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 14.04. Plugging in the usb headset makes it show up in the configuration tab of pavucontrol, but not in the output tab.

$ killall pulseaudio

fixes it for me.

Same problem on 15.04, killall pulseaudio also fixes it for me.

Seeing on 15.10 as well, killall pulseaudio also fixes.