[alsa-devel] Cannot change volume on Plantronics Audio 910 USB Headset

[cklein at mpi-sb.mpg.de]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:11:17PM +0100, cklein at mpi-sb.mpg.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently got a Plantronics .audio 910 USB headset.
> It is correctly detected by snd-usb-audio and works, but I cannot change the
> volume of the PCM output or the MIC input. When executing alsamixer -c 1,
> the volumes seem to be locked and cannot be changed as usual. Unfortunately
> the microphone volume is at 0, leading to very poor quality of the recorded
> voice (especially in Skype, which seems to try to compensate the low volume
> and fails miserably).
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
> I found similar reports on the internet for various usb headsets, but no
> real fix for the situation.
> I already asked on alsa-users some weeks ago, but did not get any response.
> 
> I tried the headset on three different PCs, all with the same result.
> A desktop at work running Fedora 7, a Thinkpad R50p running debian/testing
> and the 2.6.22 kernel provided in debian/testing. The third one is a Dell
> precision M65 with debian/unstable.
> There, I used a vanilla 2.6.24.2 kernel and latest alsa drivers from the
> mercurial repository when I asked on alsa-users, but in the meantime I
> upgraded to 2.6.24.3 and hg snapshots from 2008-03-13 06:41
> (alsa-driver) and 2008:03:17 05:23 (alsa-kernel), but still got the same
> behaviour.
> On all I get some message about "no or invalid class specific endpoint
> descriptor" in the kernel log (see below).
> When loading the snd-usb-audio module, dmesg shows the following kernel
> output (on the M65):
> 
> usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
> usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> input: Plantronics Plantronics BT Adapter as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.3/input/input10
> input: USB HID v1.11 Device [Plantronics Plantronics BT Adapter] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
> drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
> ALSA /usr/src/kernel-modules/alsa-driver-d20080313_0641-k20080317_0523/usb/usbaudio.c:2787: 5:1:1 : no or invalid class specific endpoint descriptor
> ALSA /usr/src/kernel-modules/alsa-driver-d20080313_0641-k20080317_0523/usb/usbaudio.c:2787: 5:2:1 : no or invalid class specific endpoint descriptor
> usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
> 
> I posted the output of alsa-info.sh and lsusb -v on pastebin (both taken on
> the M65).
> 
> alsa-info.sh:
> http://pastebin.ca/915715
> lsusb -v:
> http://pastebin.ca/915723

Does no one have a clue what could be the cause for this behaviour?
If I boot windows, the headset works flawlessly.
Unfortunately I have no clue what could be wrong or where else to find
information about this problem.

-- 
CU, Christian Klein

http://www.garfield.com/comics/comics_archives_strip.html?2003-ga031023

Homepage:       http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~cklein
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