Re: no stereo from line-in
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 9/10/2003 5:34 PM, someone claiming to be Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > > > > > >> Just the obvious question: Are you connecting to the sound card > >> with a stereo plug? > >> > >> A stereo plug will have two obvious contact areas on it (they'll > >> look like black stripes) for the left and right channels. Just > >> becasue you have a Y-cable that connect 2 wires into 1 doesn't mean > >> the output from the 1 connector will be stereo. > >> > > > > Hmmm... I'm not using any Y cable. The cable connects the line-out of > > a walkman cd player to the line-in of the sound card. > > OK, do the connectors on both ends of THAT cable have two contact > points? The *important* thing is that the soundcard needs to get a left > and right channel. > Yes. The connectors are of the same kind that comes with the headphones. I checked the cable with a technician and it was OK. Nevertheless, I'm told that when the cable is plugged into the line-in jack and the other end of the cable is unplugged, I should ear noise when touching the connectors of the latter end with a metal probe. I don't ear that noise (out of the columns nor the headphones). Actually, the thing seems to work now with another O$, but not with linux (it wasn't so before, can't figure what changed). > > ... I know I can > > get stereo out of the cable when I connect the headphones to it. > > You connect headphones to the same cable? Don't your headphones connect > to the walkman directly and not to some adapter cable? > I meant I connected the headphones to the walkman (or to the TV) with the said cable in the middle, for testing purposes (the cable is actually a male-female extension connected with a male-male one; I checked both pieces). > > ... I > > also can get stereo out of the card (into the headphones, or into the > > columns+subwoofer, from another output jack) when playing a .wav file > > out of the HD. What I can't get is stereo from the line-in, nor any > > sound at all from the (internal) cdrom drives (a CDRW and a DVD > > drive); I don't know whether these two issues are related. Thanks for > > any help. > > A cable from the CD drives to the sound card is required to get sound > from the CD drives. Also you mixer settings must have that line enabled. I have analog (3-pins) cables from the (internal) analog connector of the drive to the corresponding internal connector in the card. I use Kmix for mixing, and also tryed smixer. I'm beginning to think that this is a driver problem. I would try alsa if I knew whether it's supposed to work with Audigy2 (I couldn't get any clear information about this, and uninstalling alsa in case it doesn't work is a real pain, not to mention the time KDE needs to compile...). Thank you for your help, -- Jorge Almeida ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: no stereo from line-in
On 9/10/2003 5:34 PM, someone claiming to be Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: Just the obvious question: Are you connecting to the sound card with a stereo plug? A stereo plug will have two obvious contact areas on it (they'll look like black stripes) for the left and right channels. Just becasue you have a Y-cable that connect 2 wires into 1 doesn't mean the output from the 1 connector will be stereo. Hmmm... I'm not using any Y cable. The cable connects the line-out of a walkman cd player to the line-in of the sound card. OK, do the connectors on both ends of THAT cable have two contact points? The *important* thing is that the soundcard needs to get a left and right channel. ... I know I can get stereo out of the cable when I connect the headphones to it. You connect headphones to the same cable? Don't your headphones connect to the walkman directly and not to some adapter cable? ... I also can get stereo out of the card (into the headphones, or into the columns+subwoofer, from another output jack) when playing a .wav file out of the HD. What I can't get is stereo from the line-in, nor any sound at all from the (internal) cdrom drives (a CDRW and a DVD drive); I don't know whether these two issues are related. Thanks for any help. A cable from the CD drives to the sound card is required to get sound from the CD drives. Also you mixer settings must have that line enabled. HTH, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: no stereo from line-in
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > Just the obvious question: > Are you connecting to the sound card with a stereo plug? > > A stereo plug will have two obvious contact areas on it (they'll look > like black stripes) for the left and right channels. > Just becasue you have a Y-cable that connect 2 wires into 1 doesn't mean > the output from the 1 connector will be stereo. > Hmmm... I'm not using any Y cable. The cable connects the line-out of a walkman cd player to the line-in of the sound card. I know I can get stereo out of the cable when I connect the headphones to it. I also can get stereo out of the card (into the headphones, or into the columns+subwoofer, from another output jack) when playing a .wav file out of the HD. What I can't get is stereo from the line-in, nor any sound at all from the (internal) cdrom drives (a CDRW and a DVD drive); I don't know whether these two issues are related. Thanks for any help. -- Jorge Almeida ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: no stereo from line-in
On 9/10/2003 7:04 AM, someone claiming to be Jorge Almeida wrote: I need to record sound from LineIn, and I can't get stereo sound; no matter what I do, sound comes out as mono. I'm running gentoo, kernel 2.4.22 (vanilla) and my sound card is an Audigy2. I had an Ensoniq 5880 - different card, same problem. Couldn't get help from the gentoo list, maybe my problem is hardware related, of the kind that only happens to very unlucky people. And the linux-sound list seems to be dead... Any idea, any similar experience, anyone? TIA. Just the obvious question: Are you connecting to the sound card with a stereo plug? A stereo plug will have two obvious contact areas on it (they'll look like black stripes) for the left and right channels. Just becasue you have a Y-cable that connect 2 wires into 1 doesn't mean the output from the 1 connector will be stereo. HTH, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
