On 01/03/2013 04:22 PM, Dale Snell wrote: > But this leads me to wonder if Bill Barry isn't on the right > track. If it's not a cable problem, perhaps it's software. As > you said, you've probably got a speaker hidden on the blind side > of the case. It's probably connected to the "beep" channel of > your sound chip. Could it be that your main rear channels have > somehow been redirected to the beep channel? I'm just guessing > here, but it can't hurt to check.
I ran lshw to see if I could get some more info on the box. One of the things it showed me was the Gateway model number of the machine. I'll put some of the output of lshw at the end of this post. Looking up the product on the Gateway support site turned up this interesting page: http://support.gateway.com/s/CASES/shared/8011316/8011316mvr2.shtml The internal speaker is not under the motherboard, but is located in the fan housing that directs air across the processor heat sink -- one of those big shiny fin things. Another thing I got from that site was the user guide. It describes the functions of the five audio jacks, three on the back and two on the front of the box. The three on the back are, blue: Audio in/side speaker jack; green: Headphone/front speaker jack; red: Microphone jack. The two on the front are, green: Headphone jack; red: Microphone jack. The user guide explains that, "The five jacks can be used for more than one purpose. For example, the blue jack on the computer can be a stereo in jack or a stereo out jack." It also tells how to configure the five jacks, using the Windows control panel or the Realtek Sound Effect Manager, if it is installed. So, now I need to find out if someone has created a Linux tool for configuring those jacks. They are part of the Intel D945GPB motherboard, so I would imagine someone might have worked something up for that. Here are a few of the interesting things lshw showed me: id: gateway-e-4500d description: Desktop Computer product: E-4500D vendor: Gateway version: 54.10001.051 serial: 0036397886 width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 smp-1.4 smp configuration: boot = normal chassis = desktop cpus = 1 uuid = D7254D9E-76B0-11DA-A898-000EA68F73C1 id: core description: Motherboard product: D945GPB vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 version: AAD10016-305 serial: AZPB55206831 slot: Base Board Chassis Location id: cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 0 bus info: cpu@0 version: 15.4.9 serial: 0000-0F49-0000-0000-0000-0000 size: 2800MHz capacity: 4GHz width: 64 bits clock: 200MHz capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr configuration: id = 0 id: firmware description: BIOS vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 3 version: PB94510J.15A.0204.2006.0109.1452 date: 01/09/2006 size: 64KiB capacity: 448KiB capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb zipboot biosbootspecification netboot id: multimedia description: Audio device product: N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1b bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 version: 01 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver = snd_hda_intel latency = 0 resources: irq : 43 memory : d01c0000-d01c3fff -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
