no stereo from line-in

[Tim Wunder]

On 9/10/2003 7:04 AM, someone claiming to be Jorge Almeida wrote:

> I need to record sound from LineIn, and I can't get stereo sound; no
> matter what I do, sound comes out as mono. I'm running gentoo, kernel
> 2.4.22 (vanilla) and my sound card is an Audigy2. I had an Ensoniq
> 5880 - different card, same problem. Couldn't get help from the
> gentoo list, maybe my problem is hardware related, of the kind that
> only happens to very unlucky people. And the linux-sound list seems
> to be dead... Any idea, any similar experience, anyone? TIA.

Just the obvious question:
Are you connecting to the sound card with a stereo plug?

A stereo plug will have two obvious contact areas on it (they'll look 
like black stripes) for the left and right channels.
Just becasue you have a Y-cable that connect 2 wires into 1 doesn't mean 
the output from the 1 connector will be stereo.

HTH,
Tim