Greetings, Marten,
You observed:
>>I just checked out the sound on one of my LCs, also running 7.1. The
>>behavior of the system I checked is consistent with your description. I
>>needed to use amplified (powered) speakers to get a significant sound
>>volume. Have you tried powered speakers? Also, be sure that the sound port
>>contacts are clean and that the plug for the speakers is clean. Good luck.
>
>Isn't this about the case with any Mac or personal computer? Don't
>you always need powered speakers to get a decent sound?
Nope. I've used a mix of powered and unpowered speakers on my Wintel and
Linux boxes with SoundBlaster and ESS sound cards. I think it may have
something to do with the features of the particular card: some cards have
separate speaker and line-out ports; some have a single, combined
speaker/line-out port. I've got a low-end PC (P200MMX, 64M, Win95) that I
use for teaching; it's got a generic ESS card with a combined audio-out
port that drives a pair of small, unpowered speakers just fine. Another
Wintel machine (AMD K6/233, 96M, Win98) drives a pair of unpowered Infinity
speakers through a SoundBlaster 16 ISA PnP card. But the next box over, a
Red Hat Linux 7.2 system on the same type chasis as the Win95 box but with
the same sound card as the Win98 box needs amplified speakers (Altec
Lansing ACS5). You figure it out, 'cause I sure can't. <insert puzzled
Smiley here>
Sp00ky
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