no stereo from line-in

[Tim Wunder]

On 9/10/2003 5:34 PM, someone claiming to be Jorge Almeida wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> Hmmm... I'm not using any Y cable. The cable connects the line-out of
> a walkman cd player to the line-in of the sound card.

OK, do the connectors on both ends of THAT cable have two contact 
points?  The *important* thing is that the soundcard needs to get a left 
and right channel.

> ... I know I can
> get stereo out of the cable when I connect the headphones to it.

You connect headphones to the same cable? Don't your headphones connect 
to the walkman directly and not to some adapter cable?

> ... I
> also can get stereo out of the card (into the headphones, or into the
> columns+subwoofer, from another output jack) when playing a .wav file
> out of the HD. What I can't get is stereo from the line-in, nor any
> sound at all from the (internal) cdrom drives (a CDRW and a DVD
> drive); I don't know whether these two issues are related. Thanks for
> any help.

A cable from the CD drives to the sound card is required to get sound 
from the CD drives. Also you mixer settings must have that line enabled.

HTH,
Tim