On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:35 PM Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
>
> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> I've recently found a pair of headphones with a microphone.  I've no idea
> where it came from, but I'd like to try it out.  I've got no manual for
> it.  I'm not even sure it's functional.
>
> It has a red (stereo) 3.5mm jack plug and a white (stereo) 3.5mm jack
> plug.  I'm assuming that one of these is for the headphones and the other
> for the microphone, and that they plug into the pale green and pink jack
> sockets on my PC.
>
> But which is which?  I don't want to destoy anything by connecting them
> the wrong way around.
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>

It shouldn't damage anything to get it backwards. It's *very* likely
that one of those is mono, not stereo, on the plug, which is the quick
way to find the microphone at a glance, though (unless they were just
too cheap to manage 2 styles of plug in manufacturing)

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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy

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