I am an onion

[davidn]

I have just spent five hours installing and uninstalling the AC97 sound drivers from my computer, trying to get so much as a breath of sound from the plain, normal stereo speakers. Now I've accidentally found out that they work if I set the expected output to 6-channel Dolby 5.1 and plug the speakers into the Microphone In socket, whereupon the left speaker plays the centre channel and the right one gets the noise from the subwoofer. It's clearly bonkers.

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[randilynpurrs.livejournal.com]

Surround sound setups usually do use the line in and mic ports for output.

[davidn]

I suspect that this means the jumpers on the audio part are put on back to front or something, making the surround sound channels go into the normal ones. I'll look tomorrow.

[randilynpurrs.livejournal.com]

Bear in mind that some cases are not labeled correctly and/or some of the ports are permanently wired wrong.

[davidn]

It's fixed now - I just had to put back the jumpers that I'd taken out while trying to connect the front audio panel (which bizarrely disables the back panel, it says in my manual).