Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-10 Thread Scott_Patterson
>On Thursday 10 May 2001 14:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If the sound is mono, you should still be getting sound from both speakers. >> It just will be the exact same sound (i.e. no stereo seperation). > >Not necessarily. My commercial oss driver for instance outputs mono to only >one channe

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-10 Thread Scott_Patterson
>Hmmm, > >I turned the speaker (the one that works w/ my mp3s) down, and no sound came >out of the other one. I looked at xmms', balance, and it was 50/50. So then >i turned the sound back up to the defaults, and put the balance on xmms 100% >towards the questionable speaker. No sound came ou

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hmmm, I turned the speaker (the one that works w/ my mp3s) down, and no sound came out of the other one. I looked at xmms', balance, and it was 50/50. So then i turned the sound back up to the defaults, and put the balance on xmms 100% towards the questionable speaker. No sound came out, so I'm

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-10 Thread Robert Voigt
On Thursday 10 May 2001 14:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If the sound is mono, you should still be getting sound from both speakers. > It just will be the exact same sound (i.e. no stereo seperation). Not necessarily. My commercial oss driver for instance outputs mono to only one channel.

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-10 Thread Scott_Patterson
>On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:30:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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. >> >Ah, the

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
That would be kind of unusual - I haven't downloaded a single mono tune, only news broadcasts and I appreciated them being mono due to lenth of them. I like mpg123 in console mode, and you can switch between mono and stereo. do a 'man mpg123' and it will list all the options .. xmms is a great

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:30:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > Ah, the speake

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
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 card

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Scott_Patterson
>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

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Voigt
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 15:23, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I guess I've never had it that way in Linux. Do I need to do something > special to get more than mono sound? Usually not. What soundcard and driver are you using?

Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
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? Thanks, Cameron Matheson __