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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom!
