Re: Stereo sound
What are you playing when you notice only mono sound? If it's the cdrom, then
I'd venture to guess you have a cable problem between cdrom/sound card. Been
there myself, where as my mp3 player produced nice stereo sound. This was a
used card I picked up for a bench box. My sb cards have all worked fine
except sb16 pnp.
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 08:30, Scott_Patterson@andersonsinc.com wrote:
> >Hey,
> >
> >I have a quick question. Sound only comes out of the right speaker on my
> >computer. Way back in the windoze days, the speakers worked in stereo,
> > but I guess I've never had it that way in Linux. Do I need to do
> > something special to get more than mono sound?
>
> This does not sound like a sound card issue, but more like a speaker issue.
> First, check the physical connections. Is there a loose wire somewhere? You
> could also try sending the output of a walkman through these speakers to
> verify both speakers are working. Can you switch the right speaker with the
> left speaker? If so, if you know the right cable/signal is hot (it's
> getting sound), both speakers should be able to play when connected to this
> cable. So, plug your right speaker into this cable, then the left. If one
> doesn't work, you know you have a bad speaker. Oh yeah, do you have extra
> speakers to try out, or perhaps headphones?
>
> If you come to the conclusion that the speakers and connections are fine,
> run a mixer program (gmix, kmix, aumix) to test sound from the left, then
> the right. I'd be suprised if the sound card was at fault.
>
> Scott
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