[YLUG] Odd ALSA/kdetv sound issue

[Anthony Edwards]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:58:06AM +0100, Lewis Saunders wrote:
> Anthony Edwards wrote:
> >Following a recent room cleaning session when all of my computers
> >had their peripherals disconnected and all computer equipment
> >was temporarily moved to another room prior to being moved back
> >and re-installed, sound only comes from the left hand speaker when
> >watching TV using this setup.
> >
> >This is not a sound card nor speaker issue though; sound files played
> >using XMMS are played in stereo, as is DVD playback using xine,
> >so the right hand speaker hasn't failed, nor the sound card's right
> >hand channel.
> 
> Maybe before you might have accidentally had the jack in the sound card 
> pushed in only halfway?  That would pipe the left channel to both 
> speakers.  Are you sure you actually had stereo sound before, or might 
> it just have been the same sound coming out of both speakers?

I didn't have stereo sound before; the WinTV PCI tuner card that I have
is a mono version.  What I had was mono sound coming from both speakers,
rather than just the left hand speaker as at present.

> Otherwise, that's pretty weird :-)

It does seem to be, yes.

-- 
Anthony Edwards
anthony at catfish.nildram.co.uk