I have apparently now gotten beep(1) to beep thru the speaker, [as well as the tiny PC speaker like it used to.] This I did by aumix's Vol and Spkr controls.
How then can I make play(1),cat $file > /dev/audio, splay, mpg123, mpg321,mpg123-oss etc. also make the speaker come alive? they do noting at present except just hang there waiting for a C-c. How can the lowly beep program do it but they can't? It's not a permission problem as i've long ago minded /etc/groups and my experiments are carried out as root anyway. $ beep & find /proc/$! -type f|xargs more|less is what I thought might give me a clue why, but i don't understand it... I removed the sound associated modules from the kernel and it still it beeping thru the speaker... Regarding via-audio-diag, # /home/jidanni/tmp/via82cxxx-1.9.1/via-audio-diag via-audio-diag.c:v1.00 05/06/2000 Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Unable to find a recognized card in /proc/pci. If there is a card in the machine, explicitly set the I/O port address using '-p <ioaddr> -t <chip_type_index>' Use '-t -1' to see the valid chip types. # /home/jidanni/tmp/via82cxxx-1.9.1/via-audio-diag -t -l /home/jidanni/tmp/via82cxxx-1.9.1/via-audio-diag: invalid option -- t /home/jidanni/tmp/via82cxxx-1.9.1/via-audio-diag: invalid option -- l Usage: via-audio-diag [-aps] [-p <IOport>] # /home/jidanni/tmp/via82cxxx-1.9.1/via-audio-diag -aps -p 0xE400 didn't help, never mind. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]