Enable soundcard?

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Monday, 6 April 2020 02.14 Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On 4/5/20 7:30 PM, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> > On Monday, 6 April 2020 01.09 Doug McGarrett wrote:
> >> To assist those reading this link: if you don't have lshw, install it,
> >> then run it. It should tell you what your sound system is. (I assume
> >> lshw
> >> is available in Ubuntu. If it's not there should be a deb file
> >> somewhere
> >> that you can install.) lshw lists all the hardware that it finds in
> >> your
> >> system.
> > 
> > Thanks Doug.
> > 
> > I've put the output at the top of https://www.tanghus.net/audio-debug
> 
> OK, I think I see your problem. You need an audio amplifier of some sort
> and speakers.

I wasn't lying 😆

> > Firstly: I know close to nothing about computer hardware and even less 
about audio hw.

> Logitek makes a nice package, containing two tweeters that you can mount
> on a wall behind your screen, and a woofer that you can put on the floor
> under your table or desk. You can adjust the tweeter/bass balance to some
> degree, but possibly not enough. If you put the woofer against a corner
> of the wall, there will be too much bass, at least for my taste. I have
> an audio stereo frequency equalizer each with 10 steps on both channels.
> This goes between your sound card and the Logitech unit. (I am a
> musician, and I'm fussy; you can probably find a pair of small amplified
> speakers for a pittance, or even free somewhere--computers used to come
> with them. But you get what you pay for.) At any rate, whatever you
> choose goes into the Line Out jack on the computer. (If I remember, some
> computers had enough stooch to drive small speakesr directly, but not
> sure of that--maybe laptops.) I hope I have made clear that I'm generally
> referring to POWERED speakers! You need to plug in a power supply--a wall
> wart.

Thanks again Doug. I was missing the most obvious part. I will search for a 
set. Maybe a friend or relative has one lying around.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards

Thomas Tanghus

A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q: Why is top posting bad?
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