On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:48:12 deloptes wrote: Thanks all, deloptes questioned me the most thoroughly so I'm replying to him.
> 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
Yes, I'm pretty certain that this is a hardware problem. I've tried
different headphones to no avail. The jack is built into the MB.
I was curious if others have experienced this, maybe all I have to do is
open the plastic jack case on the MB and adjust something. I'd try this
without your help but I, frankly, don't know if it would work/what I'm
doing and I want to know what I'm doing when messing with the MB.
<<From the laptop since it's going to be shorter.>>
> cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xc0610000 irq 28
> cat /proc/asound/card*/codec*
> cat /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>
> Please attach or upload somewhere.
They are attached
>
> Another option would be a setting to turn off speaker when you plugin
> headphones.
Why? And there are not speakers, at least on my desktop. The laptop
speakers I mute when using headphones, they used to auto mute, but now
the computer thinks the hp are always attached so I turned that off.
> >
> > 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?
There is a Microphone and "Line in" jack on my desktop and a line out on
the player (wasn't this kinda obvious?).
> > 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
I thought of that, but I'm not certain how to tell the computer whether
to record what the computer is playing (don't want), vs. telling it to
record from the Mic/line in.
state.txt.gz
Description: application/gzip
codec.txt.gz
Description: application/gzip
