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 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 monit

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 som

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 for

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 ... keep

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 so

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 spli

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 don

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. W

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 woul

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 Subject: Re: Sound card question User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 X-Loop: debian-user

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 ne

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. The

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 > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/2013

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 > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64;

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 > Subject: Re: Sound card question > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/38.2.0 > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.or

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 possible t

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 out

Re: Sound card question

2015-09-30 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 vi

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),

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

Re: sound card question

2002-06-23 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. Ho

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 th

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 > > setse

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.