can only hear sound from the right speaker

Goatdemon · 10-29-2002, 04:54 PM

i can only hear sound from the right speaker on my laptop. i put in headphones and the same thing happens. what could be the problem, i think it's a mixer problem but im having problems running any mixer other than rexima and it has no right/left chanel mute/unmute option.

Mara · 10-30-2002, 01:53 PM

There can be many reasons... Does any sound program work correctly? Maybe it's just a plug problem?

Goatdemon · 10-30-2002, 03:54 PM

no none, and im sure it's not a plug problem ( with my headphones, if that's what your saying) because my onboard laptop speakers only play from the right speaker as well.

KL2001 · 10-30-2002, 06:56 PM

Perhaps you're deaf in your left ear?

MasterC · 10-30-2002, 08:31 PM

Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!

I would work on getting another mixer up and working, and seeing if you can set the balance with that.

Do you have another OS installed on this laptop to test with?

Cool

Goatdemon · 10-30-2002, 11:03 PM

no, i dropped windows95 for slack. im hoping it's a configuration file problem, so i can just edit something and have it work.

Grim Reaper · 10-31-2002, 01:57 AM

whats the card?
i have a similar problem, but mine has a slight crackle out the left side of my speaker system...

Goatdemon · 10-31-2002, 02:41 PM

ess1868, onboard laptop audio chip. i had to do edit files to get it to work at all and now only one speaker plays sound.

Mara · 11-01-2002, 12:57 PM

When one program is working correctly, it's quite strange... My idea is that maybe the settings you've entered are not all right. What are the setings you use?

Goatdemon · 11-01-2002, 04:05 PM

when i use the xmms equilizer, and slide it all the way to the left i hear no sound, all the way to the right and loud sound. no one program works out of both speakers on my laptop.

Mara · 11-02-2002, 11:45 AM

So I guess it's because of the settings. How do they look like?

Goatdemon · 11-02-2002, 07:57 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=33928

here's a post where i posted my question before, the sound now doesnt skip and my last post says how i fixed it, (just changed my modprobe sb settings)

the very top are my configuration files

Mara · 11-03-2002, 12:34 PM

I don't like dma16=-1. Does it really work only with this setting?

Goatdemon · 11-04-2002, 04:41 PM

all i need is
modprobe sb irq=5
i stripped away everything else and i needed this to hear with no skipping. still can only hear from one speaker though. and i tried to install oss mixer and alsa mixer and no dice, didn't install. any others you huys recommend?

edit: i also tried aumixer, and didnt work

Mara · 11-06-2002, 10:51 AM

The irq setting is OK but most models need more settings to work correctly. Usually dma and dma16. Try to assign them different values.