Marcel Rieux wrote: > > My first message: > > "I have an NVIDIA 9400GT card." > > Whether it's an Asus or an MSI, it's always a 9400GT card. Otherwise, > you wouldn't know what you're talking about. > There is *more* than one model of Asus 9400GT card. Besides, if someone is trying to help you and asks you to be more specific...they why can't you just answer the question? Kind of make me want to stop trying to help... > >>> You also have the report from lspci. If can find on the net an Asus >>> graphic card that's better identified, provide the URL, I'll open the >>> case. >>> >>> >> lspci is now totally irrelevant....and even if it were it doesn't tell >> you "ASUS EN9400GT/DI/1G...." >> > > What lspci told you is information entered in the card by Asustek. > EN9400GT, was in my first message, then I told you it was an Asus. The > info you now seem to consider relevant tells you nothing more, except > the card has 1GB RAM, cause some have 512 MB. > Doesn't matter... > >>> lspci told you that. Otherwise, I don't have a sound system. As I >>> said, I'm trying to connect it to a TV... which like all TVs has an >>> amplifier and speakers. >>> >>> >> You don't have a sound system? OK, maybe you misunderstand my question... >> >> You've got to have a sound card of some sort. >> > > Yeeeees, once again, it's integrated in the mobo. > > >>> This is very plain in my first post: >>> >>> "The plug had a molding problem and >>> one of the 4 holes was blocked. (The hole was just empty: no wire >>> going to it.) I opened it with a pin, installed it with the arrow >>> facing the closest part of the motherboard, reversed it, and, of >>> course, sound doesn't come out of the TV." >>> >>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-January/364853.html >>> >>> >>> >>>> or where you've >>>> connected the spdif cable. >>>> >>>> >>> To the motherboard since that's where the sound chip is. >>> >>> >> I just love the way you pick and chose what information to give...as if >> we are supposed to know your sound chip is on the mother board. >> > > I'm referring to the arrow on the plug facing this or that side of the > motherboard, never a word about a discrete sound card, and you ask if > I have a discrete sound card? > > Besides lspci -v says: > > Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) > Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a022 > > What would Giga-byte have to do in a discrete audio card? > From this information I cannot tell if the sound chip is integrated on the motherboard or on an discrete audio card. > >>>> You've said that one of the cables holes was >>>> blocked....but many times that is quite normal. That could be the "key >>>> hole" that would prevent one from installing cable in the wrong >>>> orientation. >>>> >>>> >>> Not a keyhole. The s/pdif out plug has 4 pins. >>> >>> >> Just because the spdif out plug has 4 pins does not mean all pins are >> used! As a matter of fact, if the plugged hole is a "key hole" there >> *will* be 4 pins on the out plug! That is the whole (pun intended) purpose. >> > > The mobo has 4 male pins -- excuse the pleonasm -- for s/pdif out in a > little casing. The plug has 4 female holes, one of which is > obstructed. How do you get the plug in if you don't open the plugged > hole: a pin will be facing the plugged hole. > Humm...could explain why I have no children... > Ed, I believe you're getting tired. Sometimes, when you try to hard, > you get obnubilated. I suggest you take a day off. > No...just no coffee.... -- Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3-D movies with.
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