Now that I checked it, I think that HvR was right. The internal speaker is really the regular system speaker. Windows installed drivers for two devices one connected to the internal speaker and the other is the real soundcard.
Yuval Scharf On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, HvR wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 07:55, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > Scharf Yuval wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > For dozens of hours I tried to make the ens1371 in my old Compaq computer > > > in my university produce any sound with no luck. > > > > > > Today I tried toplay a CD but it didn't work. I became very suspicious, > > > playing a CD has very little to do with the OS. > > > > > > So I took two speakers, connected to the soundcard and booted to Windows. > > > Windows kept using the internal speaker. > > > > > > I booted to Linux, and EVERYTHING worked great with the external > > > speakers. :-) > > > > > > So, Windows uses only the internal speaker and Linux uses only the > > > external speakers. > > > > I wasn't aware the internal speaker could produce anything more than different > > beeps ;) Is > > this perhaps a laptop? > > > yes it can, windows loads a special driver that will emulate sound by > using square sine waves (by just turning the speaker on and off you can > create a square "wave" which kind of sounds like a normal sine wave). i > did it all the time before soundcards were invented. linux on the other > hand doesnt do that so it just loads the drivers for the sound card into > which you have to plug the external speakers. so the question is really > why does windows not detect the soundcard??? > > > > > > > Can someone explain to me what is going on. Usually in computers, if > > > there are no external speakers the internal speaker works and when you plug in > > > the > > > the external speakers they start to work. Is it a hardware feature or a > > > software feature. Can I control which speakers will be use. > > > > I am currently using my Creative Ensoniq 1371 to play MP3s in Linux. No special > > config > > required. I just built the driver into the kernel. In my experience, my computer, > > nor any > > other computer I have worked with, has *never* defaulted to the internal speaker > > when I > > didn't have external speakers plugged in. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
