On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I've got an insignia NS-PAH5101 headset. As directed, the red connector is in the pink spot and the green connector in green spot in the back of my computer. arecord folloed by aplay just gets me static.
Actually, I mistook black for green. Green was occupied by my external speakers. Putting the headset's green plug in the green spot lets VLC and aplay make sounds in my headset. I still have the same issue with recording.