From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.12]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C6J45-00080y-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:22:01 -0400 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C6J44-0006im-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:22:00 -0700 Received: (qmail 11546 invoked by uid 1023); 12 Sep 2004 01:22:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:22:03 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-ID: <20040912012203.GA11483@romuald.net.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; x-action=pgp-signed; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc Subject: on-board sound internal conection question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:22:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I have a machine here which has on-board sound. There is only one internal audio connector on the motherboard, for connecting the audio cable from a cd-rom drive. A couple of days ago, I got a card that requires an internal connection in order for one to hear the audio produced by the card. Since I only have one internal audio connector on my motherboard, I want to unplug the audio cable from the cd-rom drive, and plug in the new card's audio cable to where the cd-rom drive's cable was plugged in. My question is, if anyone knows if it's ok to use these internal audio connectors for things other then cd-rom drives? The audio that I'm getting from the new card now is very faint and quiet, and I want to eliminate incorrect use of the on-board audio connector, before I start to investigate possible issues with the new card itself. One theory that I came up with for the quiet audio is that the sound produced by cd-rom drives maybe very strong, so it doesn't need to be amplified, whereas the sound produced by the card may not be as strong as that produced by the cd-rom drive, which would mean that the card would have to be plugged into one of the other internal audio connectors on a standard sound card. Does anyone know if this theory is in fact correct or not? Is the volume going out from a cd-rom drive to the sound card louder then volume produced by other cards that could have their audio outputs internally attached to a sound card? I'm probably not phrasing this question very well, but I hope what I'm asking will make sense to those in the know. As to why I can't simply put in a regular sound card with more internal audio connectors, and disable the on-board sound, the answer is that I'm out of pci/isa slots, and don't want to permanently pull out any of the cards I have in the machine now. Thanks in advance. Greg - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBQ6S77s9z/XlyUyARAh4qAJ9r2rnlwDZflcH3/TolpmoiKP1CRwCgohm7 tRVJIWa/J14/HXD2v1+V+lE= =I0r6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----