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    T61P Windows 7 - No Line Input

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by BrendaEM, Jul 1, 2011.

  1. BrendaEM

    BrendaEM Notebook Consultant

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    I can't get Windows 7 64 to recognize the line input as a line input and not a microphone. There is a huge impedance mismatch, and the device needs to be set as line in there is no way to set it as such.

    On XP, the device would automatically switch ; Windows 7/Vista drivers do not.

    Microphone != Line input.

    The drivers are broken with a missing part of their functionality, and I am exasperated by this oversight. I need to record line input.

    [Windows 7 is crap.]
     
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    Colonel O'Neill Notebook Deity

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    Erm. What? There is no line input on the T61.
     
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    The red jack on a T61p is supposed to switch to accept stereo line-input; with the current drivers on Windows 7, it no longer does. Because the driver is not detecting the line-input instead of a microphone, the levels are wrong. The drivers are broken.

    Article on Line Input: Line level - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
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