On Thursday 21 March 2002 07:41 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, skinky wrote: > > > Just a guess, but shouldn't the speakers be plugged into the green > > > socket with the speaker next to it? > > > > > > skinky > > > > skinky, > > > > As a matter of fact you're correct. the line out for the speakers should > > be placed in the green plugin on the sound card. > > Great, that is where it is plugged but the volume is still very low and > the unamplified speakers are turned to 100% in the KDE sound mixer. > > I have had suggestions regarding getting some amplified speakers but > surely these should work? > > Comments as I currently have sound but at a VERY LOW volume?
Hylton: There's a jumper on some sound cards to select/deselect the card's internal amplifier. IIRC, the default setting is to bypass the card's amplifier on the assumption that the speakers contain their own amplifier. Otherwise, there will be some very loud pops during power on. HTH -- -- cmg
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