From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 02:26:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F805106564A for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us) Received: from outbound-mail-158.bluehost.com (cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.39.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65EAE8FC13 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15334 invoked by uid 0); 10 Apr 2010 02:26:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box264.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.64) by cpoproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2010 02:26:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=joseph-a-nagy-jr.us; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type:X-Identified-User; b=n97+Tz3QiGFPy25dIDJQDROxNQqVPndFwa1AjCI/CxRpfPPZzYRjOURIyZMnue3PAZGePL225/3meWKOYAsqQhr5HW4XjBK5b8NDakmD6A9jnt0duOym8WLu//Viu9Xc; Received: from [206.74.86.236] (helo=[192.168.1.102]) by box264.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0QPG-0003CJ-9U for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:26:46 -0600 Message-ID: <4BBFE1D1.6040108@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:26:25 -0500 From: Programmer In Training User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100324 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4BBE8DB1.8040905@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4BBE9470.1040607@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4BBEB5BC.3000509@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4bbedc81.G0j71lonOCUqR/vZ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4BBF2674.6080402@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4BBF727D.6000407@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4BBF93E8.4080908@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4bbfdcad.W6JoDlxI393oub38%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4bbfdcad.W6JoDlxI393oub38%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3F4A4397B852FF7EC438AAB2" X-Identified-User: {2250:box264.bluehost.com:ameliora:joseph-a-nagy-jr.us} {sentby:smtp auth 206.74.86.236 authed with pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us} Subject: Re: USB Powered Speakers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:26:48 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig3F4A4397B852FF7EC438AAB2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/09/10 21:04, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Programmer In Training wrote: >=20 >> I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand >> new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... >=20 > If "speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins" doesn't What I don't get is that the speakers work no matter what I hook it up to. 1.x builtins (they were recognized as 1.x by Windows, I assume they still are seeing as how they cannot be upgraded) or 2.0 card. And no matter what I hook up the speakers too, it messes with the keyboard, though I had not tried to put the keyboard and mouse back on the 1.x builtins (don't really need 2.0 speed for such devices) as they were starting to act up on them. > work, you might want to try a power adapter that has a USB host > connector. (I've seen such at Fry's, intended for devices like > iPods that were designed to recharge their internal batteries > from a USB port.) This would effectively convert your current > set to wall-powered, which might be less costly than a new set. Perhaps, but I've been wanting a new set for a while now. The set I had before this one was old when I got them. Last new set I had was from Creative. Two full range satellites with a 6 1/2" omni-directional sub-woofer for about $80; unfortunately that was ages ago. I miss them (the satellite's died before the sub). > WRT the suggestion to hack something together, I wouldn't suggest > attempting it unless you're quite sure of what would be involved. I'm fairly certain solder (rosin-core as acid-core would corrode the contacts), electrical tape and a few prayers that I avoid the below stated consequences (seriously, there is a +5 and +12 on my motherboard? man I am seriously under-utilizing this thing). > It wouldn't be exactly difficult, but getting something backwards > -- or connecting to the +12 instead of the +5 supply -- would at > least let all the magic blue smoke out of the speakers :) --=20 Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. 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