On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 15:03 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 08:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > >>On 10/22/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Yes. I sent the output in a previous post. I don't use aplay very > >>>often, but I believe that the output it gave was the output it's > >>>supposed to give on a working sound system, except that there was no > >>>sound coming out of the speakers. I checked and the speakers are turned > >>>on and plugged into the PC and I turned the volume all the way up before > >>>running aplay and still didn't hear the wav file. > >>> > >>> > >>I'm really hesitant to mention this one, but others have done it and > >>so have I oncce or twice. Are you sure you have the speakers plugged > >>into the right output from the motherboard? Normally it's the green > >>one in the middle. > >> > >>Also, there was a time when the Intel 810 was senting output out on > >>some other plug on a couple of machines. Try the headphone output plug > >>as well as the speaker output plug. > >> > >>- Mark > >> > >> > >> > > > >I have my speakers plugged into the headphone jack on the front of the > >case. That's the only way I could get sound out of them in Windows XP. > > > > > > > > > The headphone jack on the front of the case? First of all, make sure > that this is not the headphone jack on the front of the CD-ROM drive.
The cd-rom drive is at the top of the case. The headphone jack my speakers are plugged into is at the bottom of the case. > > If this is actually just an alternate front panel jack you should still > try using the standard jack on the rear of the machine. What if there > was something wrong with the front panel lead or jacks? If you couldn't > get sound out of your machine under Windows through the regular > speaker-out or line-out jacks, and you could only get sound out of this > front panel connector, then either you have a serious hardware problem > with the card or you installed the front panel lead improperly. I think I just plugged the speakers into the wrong jack in the back. Besides, it's a lot more convenient for me this way. > On my > newer machines, the front panel lead connects to the appropriate pins on > the motherboard not once, but twice. The second connection serves as a > jumper to enable the front panel connectors to work as well as the rear > panel connectors. Check your motherboard manual to be sure that you > have things wired up correctly. It sounds like you don't. I don't have a motherboard manual for this machine. > If > everything IS wired up correctly and both problems still persist (the > Windows one and the ALSA one), then I'd urge you to run out and buy a > new card. It would cost more than I can afford to replace the card. I would have to pay for the new sound card, and then for someone to install it. I don't go inside the case anymore. I'd rather have a working computer (although mute in Linux) than a dead computer because I tried to fix the hardware. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
