Using a USB headset with a single speaker, shown here as Y-247A:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 2a7a:6a18 CASUE CASUE USB Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0d8c:0014 C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A)
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ uname -a
Linux mordor 5.11.0-34-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 26 19:22:09 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nicholas@mordor:~$
Regardless of which output is selected:
only one "speaker" from the above GUI will produce sounds from the headset. The headset has one speaker for one ear, the other ear has no speaker.
While the the output of pactl list is a bit extensive, perhaps this would be how to configure for a single speaker.
How do I make the sound "mono"?
Note: The sound works fine at least for Microsoft Teams and Text Now so this is primarily just wanting to get that test to work for both speakers.
