On 2022-06-21 02:16, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Hello,
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Subject : [oS-EN] New sound problem Message-ID : <fae953aa-280a-d85e-e7c9-bd5bfe995876@telefonica.net> Date & Time: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:42:57 +0200
[CER] == "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> has written:
CER> Hi,
CER> I have a new sound problem.
Meaning that it has been working fine until now?
No, I don't remember when it started. New because it is become a nuisance just yesterday :-) I had to move the machine to a new position; previously I just plugged the headphones instead of the loudspeaker on the back of the computer. But the cable is so short that I have to sit with my face close to the display, and that is a pain :-(
CER> The machine is my previous desktop machine, maybe 10 year old, running a CER> relatively new system with Leap 15.3, and XFCE desktop. I watch movies CER> on it, and the headphones do not work.
CER> Sound taken from the line.out output of the sound card goes to the loud CER> speakers, and they work. If I connect the headphones on the front, I CER> hear a very low hiss on them; the loudspeakers go silent, but no actual CER> sound on the headphones. I see on the "audio mixer" gadget that output CER> changes from "line out (plugged in)" to "headphones (plugged in)", so CER> they are detected.
CER> But if I take out the jack just slightly, I can get sound on both CER> devices. The mixer tool says that I have just line out. So I get working CER> headphones if I tune down the external volume control on the external CER> speakers.
CER> This means that the hardware front jack is actually connected and works, CER> but the software is not working, once it detects the headphones are CER> connected and does something about it.
Normally, when you connect it to the front jack on the PC, it works with the on-board sound chip, but you are using it wired to the Sound Labs X-Fi Xtreme?
AFAIK there is only one sound hardware, the Sound Labs X-Fi Xtreme card the board came with. Does it have also an on-board sound chip, you think?
But still, Sound Labs X-Fi Xtreme is very old......
Well, yes, the machine is over a decade old. It is my previous desktop machine, I have a newer one back home. I had to put this one back into service from retirement, I have guests :-) The Nvidia card is also a nuisance, can't use the proprietary driver anymore, I use nouveau instead. Suffices. And RAM is limited to 8 GiB by the motherboard. Elesar:~ # inxi --cpu CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 6144 KiB Speed: 2788 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2788 2: 2824 3: 2736 4: 2796 Elesar:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)