- Ubuntu install pulseaudio movie#
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- Ubuntu install pulseaudio Patch#
- Ubuntu install pulseaudio software#
The second part is adding a single file, nf, to the directory /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets. This is only a description and so it does not affect functionality. Therefore I have changed it to a more generic (and existing in older versions of PA) analog-output-mono.
Ubuntu install pulseaudio Patch#
The analog-output-headphones-mono key is added in a source file in the patch and seeing as I am not recompiling PulseAudio, this particular key would not be in the version of the dictionary on my system. The only change made to them is that I have changed the description-key line in the nf. These should simply be copied into the directory /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths. The first part consists of three files, each defining one device: It also includes a handy udev rule so that the hardware is matched to the layout description. as two output devices rather than the single, first one encountered, it recognizes out of the box. What the patch does is inform Pulseaudio of the particularities of the Arctis 7 layout so that when it encounters the headset, it can use it correctly, i.e. Feel free to download them from there or grab them off of the merge page, if your prefer. Seeing as Github does not allow for shallow cloning a single commit I have taken the liberty of creating a repository with only the relevant files and the relevant license (LGPL). Given everything that can go wrong with tearing out a vital piece of plumbing and stuffing in your own handiwork instead, I’ll go for the second option. I could download the recent 11.99.1 release from github and learn to compile it myself… or I can download the files added by the patch and add them to my install manually. So it’s probably a fool’s errand sitting around waiting for 12.0 to arrive on my new bionic install. Looking back at Ubuntu LTS releases, however, none of them ever upgraded to a major new version of Pulseaudio during their lifetime. The patch is tagged 11.99.1 which means that it will in all probability be included in version 12.0. The bad news is that it didn’t make it into the 11.x releases of Pulseaudio which is what is included in the spring of 2018 batch of distro releases (e.g. The good news is somebody has pushed a fix to the Pulseaudio git repository. Alas, PulseAudio only recognises the first of these two devices. This allows you to give audio preference to the in-game footsteps coming up from behind you or idle coop chit-chat.
Ubuntu install pulseaudio movie#
While there is no reason you cannot use it to have a movie playing in one channel and an opera in the other, the idea is to direct chat and phone applications (discord, Skype, etc.) to use the mono channel while everything else (including games) goes to the stereo channel. When it is working you can have two entirely different streams going to each device and mix them on the go. The headset then mixes these two channels in the hardware according to a conveniently placed mixer knob going from 100% channel 0 (mono) to 100% channel 1 (stereo). The reason for this is that the Arctis 7 features two virtual output devices, one mono and one stereo. You get a mono input from the mic and a mono output from the cans. The SteelSeries Arctis 7 headset works out of the box on linux.
Ubuntu install pulseaudio update#
The Steelseries Engine Windows package itself is ‘safe’ to update – it’s only the headset firmware updates that may endanger the device’s working on linux. Steelseries Engine version 3.2.18 introduced a new configuration of the headset that initially invalidated this fix (Thanks to Steve Brueggeman for help in making it work again).
Ubuntu install pulseaudio software#
IMPORTANT: If you dualboot with Windows and run the Steelseries Engine software you should exercise caution when considering updating the headset firmware.