Sound card pain and suffering...

[ME]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Cameron Tully-Smith wrote:
> Well, this is embarrassing...  I checked again tonight while I had the 
> system open to verify that the card's jumpers were set to line out (for 
> amplified speakers; instead of speaker out for non-amplified speakers) and 
> found that I had misread the icons on the jacks on the card.  The card 
> itself has labeling saying "speaker out" and "line out" below the jack that 
> I thought was the line in jack.  As soon as I connected the speakers to the 
> line out jack, the card started working with sndconfig's test.

It is very good to hear your hardware is working. :-)

As for this kind of mistake, it happens to everyone. I once spent an hour
working on an ethernet driver for a new version of linux only to find
there were two different ethernet cables in a pile of spaghetti, and the
one plugged into the machine was not the same as the one plugged into the
wall. :-/ At least for both cases we did not call up tech support and have
them ask, "Is it plugged in?" and then let out a rather loud, "Doh!" as we
hung up the phone.

How about the date/time probem? Was your assumption on UTC/GMT correct?

-ME