Re: Sound card question

2015-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 04/10/15 10:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the >> > input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled >> > station because the microphone input is being overdriven. > All that is needed for monitoring is

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat > Another option, get a small handheld transceiver that you can tune to > the appropriate frequency. > > This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the > input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled > station because the microphone input is

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 03/10/15 01:27, Danny wrote: > In order to hear comms coming in or out of the transciever (via an antenna) > one > has to connect to the transciever with ANOTHER transciever in order to hear > people talk (if you are tuned to the same frequency off course) > > Now ... my second transciever is

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread Danny
> I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance matched--I > expect it's just > a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you are plugging the same low-impedance > devices into > both Y outputs, _and_ the source is impedance matched, you would not split > the power > equally. I

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread rlharris
On Fri, October 2, 2015 12:10 pm, Doug wrote: > You didn't mention that you want to add _speakers_. You might need a > small amplifier after the Y-adapter, since the speakers will be low > impedance--4- or 8 ohms. Visit ramseykits.com and find some small audio > amplifiers in kit or assembled

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread Doug
On 10/02/2015 11:27 AM, Danny wrote: I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance matched--I expect it's just a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you are plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ the source is impedance matched, you would not

RE: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread Larry Owens
-Original Message- From: Danny [mailto:mynixm...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 8:27 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound card question > I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance > matched--I expect it's just a voltage source.

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Danny (mynixm...@gmail.com): > In order for me NOT to make a trip to the car every 10 minutes I though of > splitting the LINE-OUT and add a normal set of desktop speakers. > > So ... I was just wondering if I will have any losses (in whatever form) when > I > "split" the signal ...

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread Doug
On 10/02/2015 02:36 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Fri, October 2, 2015 12:10 pm, Doug wrote: You didn't mention that you want to add _speakers_. You might need a small amplifier after the Y-adapter, since the speakers will be low impedance--4- or 8 ohms. Visit ramseykits.com and find

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread Doug
On 10/02/2015 10:18 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Fri, October 2, 2015 5:34 pm, Doug wrote: In this context, mis-use of terms "impedance" and "power" is adding nothing but confusion. I have no quarrel with the advice that follows, but I do not understand the comment above. Doug, As I

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-02 Thread rlharris
On Fri, October 2, 2015 5:34 pm, Doug wrote: >> In this context, mis-use of terms "impedance" and "power" is adding >> nothing but confusion. > > I have no quarrel with the advice that follows, but I do not understand > the comment above. Doug, As I recall, the thread began with the need to

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Seeker wrote: If you do actually have an audio out and a line out and the line out doesn't produce audio when something is plugged into the audio out, it may be an indication that it's a hardwired mechanical function built into the audio out jack to break the circuit to the line

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Danny
On Sep 30 15, Doug : > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:39:16 -0400 > From: Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/38.2

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Danny
No jumpers on the motherboard ... :( ... On Oct 01 15, Rob van der Putten : > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:06:25 +0200 > From: Rob van der Putten <r...@sput.nl> > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i6

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 1, 2015 8:52 am, Danny wrote: > Using a Y-adapter naturally forces the following question: > Does it effectively split the power/gain into two and I end up with half > on one side and half on the other? A Y-adapter simply parallels two circuits. There is no splitting as such.

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Danny
015 09:36:15 -0500 > From: rlhar...@oplink.net > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [SVN] > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Wed, September 30, 2015 8:55 am, Danny wrote: > > What I would like to know is if it would be pos

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Danny
I checked alsamixer and have no means to enable/disable channels ... :( ... On Sep 30 15, Seeker : > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:10:39 -0700 > From: Seeker <seeker5...@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Danny wrote: No jumpers on the motherboard ... :( ... Sometimes it's the way the connector is plugged into the motherboard or the front panel. Sometimes it's a BIOS setting. Look for AC 97. See; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_High_Definition_Audio If all of this fails you

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Doug
On 10/01/2015 09:52 AM, Danny wrote: On Sep 30 15, Doug : To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:39:16 -0400 From: Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> Subject: Re: Sound card question User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 1, 2015 3:57 pm, Doug wrote: > I believe that the output of the headphone jack is not impedance > matched--I expect it's just a voltage source. Wat's more, unless you are > plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ the > source is impedance matched, you

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 1, 2015 3:57 pm, Doug wrote: > What's more, unless you are > plugging the same low-impedance devices into both Y outputs, _and_ the > source is impedance matched, you would not split the power equally. (This is an addendum to my previous reply) There is no "splitting" of power.

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-01 Thread Seeker
On 9/30/2015 10:39 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Danny wrote: Hi guys, I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied

Re: Sound card question

2015-09-30 Thread Doug
On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Danny wrote: Hi guys, I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via speaker/mic headphones (Amateur Radio

Re: Sound card question

2015-09-30 Thread rlharris
On Wed, September 30, 2015 8:55 am, Danny wrote: > What I would like to know is if it would be possible to send audio that > goes to the headphones to the Line-Out jack at the same time? I would be surprised that the case is otherwise. I always install "pavucontrol" (pulse audio volume control),

Sound card question

2015-09-30 Thread Danny
Hi guys, I have a Sigmatel STAC9227 on-board sound card. Everything works fine as it should. It has the normal Mic , Ext.Speaker and Line-Out jacks. Currently the Mic and Ext.Speaker plugs are permanently occupied via speaker/mic headphones (Amateur Radio Stuff) ... What I would like to know is

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread lee
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Ok then the card is recognised and probably working. Do you have sound? In that case, I would think it's an issue with

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards even with several different combinations of items parsed from the relevant lspci line. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:23:20PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: If you're using ALSA, then you should probably be aware that /dev/mixer is not an ALSA device name. ALSA

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread lee
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards even with several different combinations of items parsed from the relevant lspci line. According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try something like rexima

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
Jude, If ls -al /dev/mixer is not there, check that the package oss-compat is installed? If not sure post output of apt-cache policy oss-compat Hopefully this will fix it. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Jude

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, that modprobe command woke up the mixer and rexima found it with: rexima -d /dev/mixer and took control as it had done on other computers I had. I play frotz games and those have oss type sound effects in them I've not heard since the first days I played infocom games on dos on a pc all

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:45:42PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? Is the card being recognised? What are you trying to do? What have

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound card. The sound card shows up using lspci, but I don't know what to parse out of it for an ln -s command or if a /dev/mixer device if created would even work in this circumstance. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Chris Bannister wrote:

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:45:42 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? JFYI, according to Debian's rexima package NEWS.gz file, that shouldn't be

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread lee
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound card. Is alsamixer able to find devices, or do some show up when you run aplay -l or aplay -L? Is this the only sound card installed? -- Debian testing amd64 -- To

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound card. Is alsamixer able to find devices, or

nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to

Re: sound card question

2002-06-24 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
Anyways.. I heard from some other people that certain sound cards are able to play more than one audio stream at the same time in Linux without the sound daemons. It seems a lot easier without one. I tried putting in a sound blaster live (emu10k1) before and playing more than one sound worked.

Re: sound card question

2002-06-24 Thread Steven Yap
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 21:13, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: Anyways, that's beside the point. What other sound cards can do this or is there some other alternative? Check the Alsa project pages at www.alsa-project.org, and also their mailling list archives. The one that have been reported to work

sound card question

2002-06-23 Thread John Smith
Right now, I'm using a creative vibra sb16, and it's working fine. However, I can't have more than one sound playing without getting a device or resource busy error. So I'm wondering, what can I do to be able to play more than one sound at the same time (without esd or other sound daemons). I

Re: sound card question

2002-06-23 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 21:18, John Smith wrote: Right now, I'm using a creative vibra sb16, and it's working fine. However, I can't have more than one sound playing without getting a device or resource busy error. So I'm wondering, what can I do to be able to play more than one sound at the

[Fwd: Sound card question, mouse question] Try Two

1998-09-01 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
I'll try sending this again since I didn't get a response. I've been having trouble with mail also but that is unrelated. If there was responses I'm terribly sorry for wasting your time but if it's not too much trouble can you forward them to my work address ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )? I'm positive

Re: Sound card question, mouse question

1998-09-01 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote: I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and isapnp. pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550 Everything works great. My

Re: Sound card question, mouse question

1998-09-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
To add to what stephen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote: I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and isapnp. pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf setserial

Sound card question, mouse question

1998-08-29 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and isapnp. pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550 Everything works great. My question is, pnpdump also listed my sound card. When I