On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 11:23 -0800, John Cole wrote: > I'm trying to get the internal mono sound speaker to work on an > Aopen MiniPC. I get sound from the external jack but none from the > internal speaker. > > Scouring the web, I have performed the modprobe pcpskr and gotten it > to appear in a lsmod after a reboot. I have made sure it is not muted > and the volume is up (among many other combinations :-) ) > > The documentation seems to indicate that the internal speaker is a > mono sound channel, so I don't know if it is supposed to use pcspkr or > not. I don't know what the "mono" volume control does (I can't get any effect from it on my PCs). If you want the PC speaker/beeper to sound off through the sound card, it'll need to be plugged into it somehow. Some sound cards have a header to connect the PC speaker to it, and it's then controlled by a "speaker" volume control. I'm not so sure this is a good idea, though. Most Linux things don't play with the speaker, if they produce a sound they play an audio file through the sound system. The BIOS uses the beeper for important things like overheat or fan-stuck warnings, you really do want such alerts to be heard, not silenced by your audio mixer settings. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
