<div dir="ltr"><div>Between the Arctis 5 and 7, that seems to be the case.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,52);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,52);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I do not hear much of a difference between the sound quality. However, it seems that the "chat" output doesn't go as loud as the game output. I can change the volume of the chat output using alsamixer, but I can't in the Ubuntu (17.10) gnome settings applet. (But that is probably the one you mean.)</div><div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,52);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,52);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Here is the output of "amixer -c1":</div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,52);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,52);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> </div>Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 55 Mono: Front Left: Playback 33 [60%] [-17.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 33 [60%] [-17.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Sidetone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 4096 Mono: Playback 94 [2%] [0.36dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined Capture channels: Mono Limits: Capture 0 - 29 Mono: Capture 29 [100%] [-1.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Com Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 55 Mono: Front Left: Playback 40 [73%] [-10.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 40 [73%] [-10.00dB] [on] </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-29 0:34 GMT+01:00 Tanu Kaskinen <<a href="mailto:tanuk@iki.fi" target="_blank">tanuk@iki.fi</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sat, 2018-01-06 at 15:03 +0100, Bert Hekman wrote: > --- > .../alsa/mixer/profile-sets/90-pulseaudio.rules | 3 +- > .../steelseries-arctis-5-usb-audio.conf | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > ...io.conf => steelseries-arctis-7-usb-audio.conf} | 0 > 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100644 src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-5-usb-audio.conf > rename src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/{steelseries-arctis-usb-audio.conf => steelseries-arctis-7-usb-audio.conf} (100%) > > diff --git a/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/90-pulseaudio.rules b/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/90-pulseaudio.rules > index 2392ca50..2cec20fe 100644 > --- a/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/90-pulseaudio.rules > +++ b/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/90-pulseaudio.rules > @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ ATTRS{idVendor}=="0763", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2012", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="maudi > ATTRS{idVendor}=="045e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="02bb", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="kinect-audio.conf" > ATTRS{idVendor}=="041e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="322c", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="sb-omni-surround-5.1.conf" > ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bda", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4014", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="dell-dock-tb16-usb-audio.conf" > -ATTRS{idVendor}=="1038", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1260", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="steelseries-arctis-usb-audio.conf" > +ATTRS{idVendor}=="1038", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1250", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="steelseries-arctis-5-usb-audio.conf" > +ATTRS{idVendor}=="1038", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1260", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="steelseries-arctis-7-usb-audio.conf" > > LABEL="pulseaudio_end" > diff --git a/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-5-usb-audio.conf b/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-5-usb-audio.conf > new file mode 100644 > index 00000000..9eeda7e0 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-5-usb-audio.conf > @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ > +# This file is part of PulseAudio. > +# > +# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > +# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as > +# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the > +# License, or (at your option) any later version. > +# > +# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but > +# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU > +# General Public License for more details. > +# > +# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License > +# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>>. > + > +; Steelseries Arctis 5 USB headset. The headset has a microphone and two output > +; devices. The first output device is meant for voice audio, and the second one > +; is meant for everything else. The purpose of this unusual design is to > +; provide separate volume controls for voice and other audio, which can be > +; useful in gaming. > +; > +; See default.conf for an explanation on the directives used here. > + > +[General] > +auto-profiles = yes > + > +[Mapping analog-chat] > +description = Chat > +device-strings = hw:%f,0,0 > +channel-map = left,right > +paths-input = analog-input-mic > +paths-output = analog-output > + > +[Mapping analog-game] > +description = Game > +device-strings = hw:%f,1,0 > +channel-map = left,right > +paths-output = analog-output > +direction = output > + > +[Profile output:analog-chat+output:analog-game+input:analog-chat] > +output-mappings = analog-chat analog-game > +input-mappings = analog-chat > +priority = 5100 > +skip-probe = yes > diff --git a/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-usb-audio.conf b/src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-7-usb-audio.conf > similarity index 100% > rename from src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-usb-audio.conf > rename to src/modules/alsa/mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-7-usb-audio.conf </div></div>The main difference to Arctis 7 seems to be that the "chat" device supports stereo audio. Is there any difference in sound quality between the "chat" and "game" devices? Can you send the output of "amixer -c1" (replace 1 with the correct card index if the headset card index is not 1)? Your configuration probably doesn't handle volume correctly, because both devices have been configured to use the analog-output path, which means that both devices will control the same volumes in the alsa mixer. The volume control needs to be separated for the two devices. -- Tanu <a href="https://liberapay.com/tanuk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://liberapay.com/tanuk</a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/tanuk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/tanuk</a> _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org">pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> </div>