On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote: > 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). >
It seems that some on-board sound controllers seem to be able to control the pc speaker. At least at my work we have some windoz machines which have this "feature" > Thanks, James > - Calin -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in". Kim Alm on a.s.r. - 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
