I performed lsmod on the system in question and it does show that lsmod loads but the second column is headed as "used by" and there is a 0 there which sounds like nothing is using it. Is there something I need to do to get it producing sound over the audio output jack? As I previously described, I get perfectly good stereo sound via alsa just no terminal beeps. I have the 'beep' utility installed which also makes use of the PC speaker not the sound card. If I tell beep to emit 400 for 10 seconds by beep -f400 -l10000, it comes out that piezo buzzer for 10 seconds. Absolutely nothing comes out through the sound card that sounds like a 400 HZ square wave tone.
The amixer settings for this particular sound card show Beep turned on and set for full volume. I am not sure if that means the hardware input on the sound card or audio input from a driver. Severl older Dell systems I have will relay the PC speaker's audio if you tell amixer to open the appropriate audio channel but they also have physical connections to the mother board's speaker driver which comes from the BIOS post test. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140513004318.a218622...@server1.shellworld.net