On 1 Jun 99, at 10:44, Eric Maquiling wrote:

> Does anyone have experience playing around with the Aimslab Radio Card?
>  I stuck it in an old computer and it is working well.  However, my CD
> sound now doesn't work.  It only works when I take out the cable that
> attaches from the radio card to the sound card
>
> Cable looks like this:
>
> radio card --out port----------->>>>> --in port--sound card
>
> Now taking out the cable is no big deal but is there a way to avoid
> this?  This sounds like something someone with electrical knowledge
> would know.  Seems like the cable from the internal cd to the sound
> card does the same thing as the cable from radio card to sound card.
> However, it cannot have them both at the same time.  To make things
> worse, I have an older sound card (opti 929 chipset).

  I believe they're competing for the "Line In" input on the card.

  Obvious(?) options:

1.  Hook a (second) set of speakers into the headphone jack on the CD cdrive.

2.  Hook a (second) set of speakers into the output jack on the radio card.
(Note that if this is at "line" levels, you may need a small amp or powered
speakers....)

3.  Run the CD output (some CD drives have stereo "RCA" connectors on the
back, which will help...) out through some convenient hole in the case;
connect that and the radio card to an external mixer, whose output then goes
to the "Line In" on the sound card.  [You won't have software controll of
this mixer....]  Or perhaps just a (stereo) switch to select between the two?


David G

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