On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > Just a shot in the dark here, but do you have the volume turned up? I am using the > ALSA sound modules, and they, as default, start up with the sound muted. I haven't > gotten around to fixing it yet, so every time I reboot that machine, I have to reset > the sound levels to something higher than zero. >
And a brilliant shot in the dark it was! I ran across, somewhere on the web, the "alsamixer" command and even ran it (that's my kind of app - colors and shapes in a console). I saw "PCSpeaker" there, and even turned up the volume, but that didn't get me any console beep. Well, I just had a look at it again after reading your post. This time, I noted that certain of the items listed there had an "off" flag by them - among these the PCSpeaker. I toggled that flag and - voila! - system speaker! So, it woiks, it woiks! I just would never have guessed that alsa was something that governs the PC's speaker - I thought that was a separate "low level" (however that parses out in my benighted understanding of these things) item. Can anyone help clarify this for me? Anyway, thanks to all for input on this - it's now fixed (provided the settings I did stick). Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
