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On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:35 PM Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> I've recently found a pair of headphones with a microphone. I've no idea |
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> where it came from, but I'd like to try it out. I've got no manual for |
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> it. I'm not even sure it's functional. |
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> It has a red (stereo) 3.5mm jack plug and a white (stereo) 3.5mm jack |
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> plug. I'm assuming that one of these is for the headphones and the other |
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> for the microphone, and that they plug into the pale green and pink jack |
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> sockets on my PC. |
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> But which is which? I don't want to destoy anything by connecting them |
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> the wrong way around. |
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> Help would be appreciated. |
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> Thanks! |
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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It shouldn't damage anything to get it backwards. It's *very* likely |
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that one of those is mono, not stereo, on the plug, which is the quick |
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way to find the microphone at a glance, though (unless they were just |
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too cheap to manage 2 styles of plug in manufacturing) |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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