On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, skinky wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 18:34, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am having a very weird problem with my sound running a AMD K7 onboard > > sound card, the Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI > > > > The problem is that even though the volume is at 100% on the controls > > the audio coming out of the speakers can only just be heard. I have been > > able to determine that there is nothing wrong with the speakers as they > > work AOK on my Windy box. > > > > I have tried many things with the help of Dave Jones but still have not > > been > > able to solve the error. I have tried: Aumix, Timidity, CDPlayer, > > Arts Builder, KDE Media Player, Midi and Karaoke Player, Midi synth, > > Sound Mixer, arts control, xmms. I have also tried running the following > > from a root terminal: sndconfig, kmix, gmix, umix and xmix? Three of the > > *mix ones commands could not be found and the kmix, I think had a nice > > GUI with all the levels showing at 80%, all the green lights are on and > > one > > red light on. > > > > There are three coloured holes on the panel which accept a 3.5mm jack > > plug namely, a pink one with a mic next to it, a blue one with > > headphones next to it and a green one with what looks like a speaker > > next to it. I am using the blue headphones socket. > > > > Any ideas where the fault could be or do I need to pack it back in the > > box and return it to the store and tell them I'm too fffing stupid to > > own a PC? > > 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. -- daRcmaTTeR --------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:05pm up 5 days, 22:45, 3 users, load average: 0.37, 0.33, 0.27
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