Extra sound card working anyone?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

There would be no distortion or preamp because the connector accepts a
line-level stereo input. Sound cards have a microphone jack in addition to
line-in, but the Mac doesn't have a microphone jack, only line-in. There
are special line-in microphones that are made for the Mac for this reason.
Such microphones have an extra long plug to reach the +5V line behind the
line-in connector, which remains unused when a standard line-in plug is
used there.

The dmasound_pmac driver in YDL 3.0.1 worked perfectly on my Sawtooth,
which I didn't realize has the Screamer chip instead of the Burgundy. You
should give kernel 2.6.7 a try to see if it works.

To use a PCI sound card, you will need to recompile the kernel anyway
because TerraSoft omits drivers for PC hardware.

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:20:29 -0600, matthew dechant wrote:

> The microphone jack is there. Isn't it going to have some sort of preamp
> (i.e. sound distortion) if I use it? I thought that's one reason why they
> also put a line-in on sound cards.
> 
> -m