[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[aaron]

I believe your problem is not hardware or jumper settings,
but software... specifically the "mixer" controls and the master
volume setting.

Look in the default programs for your desktop under "Multimedia". 
You should find something called Gmix or Kmix or Audio Mixer.
There may also be a mixer applet under "Applets \ Multimedia".
Any one of these should allow you to set the output volume for
your Soundblaster card.

HTH!
peace
aaron

On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:15, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> I now have the SoundBlaster 2.0 card installed and the drivers load 
> correctly but the sound coming out of the speakers with maximum volume 
> is barely audible.
> 
> Ruling out speakers, CDROM and CD as being the problem,... when the 
> speakers are plugged directly into the CDROM player, the sound is OK.
> 
> I have connected a cable with 4 pin plugs from the CDROM's analog 
> connection which apparently cannot be done incorrectly since the two 
> interior pins are both ground.
> 
> That leaves the CDROM-to-SoundBlaster connection which is marked line 
> out on the card and is an expected 4 pins. I have tried this connection 
> both ways, i.e. rotating the connector 180 deg. and still no sound.
> 
> I don't have any docs on the card and Creative has nothing on it's site, 
> it being legacy and costing them a fortune to leave the docs online  :-)
> 
> Anyway, there are several jumper pins on the card whose purpose I don't 
> know. FM and VOICE are not jumpered. Of 22X and 24X, 22X is jumpered. 
> The 2 interior [of 4 total] pins marked Microphone are jumpered. 
> And...there are several other pin sets, some jumpered, some not, but 
> they are not functionally described with onboard markings.
> 
> If anyone has one of these ISA SoundBlaster cards functioning, I'd 
> appreciate the necessary missing revelation  :-)
> 
> Cordially,
> Courtney
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