Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: > > I'm using the cdtool package to play audio CD's from my CD-ROM drive. For some > reason, playing CD's only outputs MONO sound (ie. only to one of my speakers). > It's not a problem with my speakers since .mp3 and .wav files plays as stereo > without any problems. > > Is this a software problem or is it a hardware problem? Any suggestions will > be appreciated. Thanx!! My soundcard is an SB16 and I'm using kernel 2.2.12.
I had the same problem with my awe64. I wasn't getting mono, but actually getting only the right channel, which sounds like your problem, since mono would still come from both speakers. To find out, play a cd that has certain parts that pan from one speaker to the other. I first noticed my problem when listening to a song that has a part that switched from right to left, and back. What I heard on my pc was sound to silence, back to sound. The problem was caused by the fact that the connector that matched my cd audio cable was NOT a cd audio input. It was an auxilary input, which had a different pinout. The cd input was had a different connector. I guess I should have actually read the labels. So I got the right cable and all was fine. -- Greg "Tower" Starkes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Webmaster, Tucows Linux (http://linux.tucows.com/) "You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge." -Neil Peart, Rush, "Show Don't Tell"
