In comp.os.linux.setup, The Ghost In The Machine
<ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net>
wrote
on Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0800
<rv5o64-u0l.ln1@sirius.tg00suus7038.net>:
> This one's a little weird. I resynched my Gentoo portage
> tree on 12/31/2006, and now have somehow lost a channel on
> my ALSA sound system; it also loses percussion information
> or something, which sounds *very* weird. I can sort of
> get the channel and the percussion back by pulling the
> plug out slightly in the back of my computer, presumably
> converting it from stereo to mono, but am wondering if
> there's a magic setting somewhere in /etc/asound.state ,
> or if someone else knows what could be happening.
>
> It's a stock ASUS 733 motherboard with inbuilt CM8738
> (according to LSPCI), with an Athlon 1600 XP + (1.4 GHz).
>
> If more info is needed (e.g., /etc/asound.state), please
> let me know here and I'll post it.
>

Well, FWIW, I think this one can be tagged as a hardware problem; my
right speaker looks very fussy regarding its connection to the left one.

:-)

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