David Niklas wrote: > Hello,
Hi David, > I'm not running debian, rather Gentoo, but this happens with any distro > and sound card (so far), so I figured this is as good a place as any to > start (though linuxquestions is a close second). > > My sound card is currently (according to lspci), an ATI/ATI SBx00 Azalia > (Intel HDA), though I used another ATI card on another MB before the MB > broke (the MB was a lemon). Both cards are built into the MB. > > The said problem also happens independent of the audio playing app. > > The problem is this, if I plug an audio jack for my headphone into the > jack the whole way then I get a lot less volume on the channels. I don't > think it's a decrease in the bass, though it might be. > > Now, if I pull the headphone jack out, just a bit, it plays everything > fine. > > This is a little odd, and I might just dismiss it as a random quirk of > my machine, but now it has happened to my laptops headphone jack too. Did you try with different cables/jacks? What type of jack is it - perhaps you soldiered yourself, or perhaps some special headphones - just asking? In my opinion it might be either hardware - jack is shortening, or some odd setting somewhere, but if latter it wouldn't be same on different board. Anyway for the case it is not the jack itself we would need some additional info. In debian cat /proc/asound/cards cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* cat /var/lib/alsa/asound.state Please attach or upload somewhere. Another option would be a setting to turn off speaker when you plugin headphones. > > Also, I've recorded some audio from an old cassette tape onto my computer > (cassette tape players are getting hard to find), and some of the said > audio I somehow got to require that the headphone jack be fully plugged in > to play correctly. [scratches head] I with I knew how I did this, it's > really odd. > There is no connection between these two. What means correctly? > So, my questions are: > 1: What causes this? > 2: How might I rerecord the audio files so they play right on a computer > without this problem without using the now broken tape deck? It's just like normal recorder - set up input output level and record. If your mixer or pulseaudio are not set up properly you could have issues with the volume. I would check both. There are also cases where the settings for specific audio chips are broken or misaligned - it might also need attention. Just post the specs of your audio card and setup and there will be perhaps someone with the same who could compare and share regards
