On 07/29/2011 02:21 PM Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:05:27AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/29/11 10:56 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, my new workstation has an internal speaker, as well as the jacks for external. I want beeps, if necessary, but I can't figure out how to tell it*not* to route streaming audio to the jacks, and*not* through the PC speaker. Any ideas, folks?
wait. i'm confused. you don't want ;streaming audio' (for whatever that means) on the jacks and you don't want it on the PC internal speaker ? (afaik, ONLY the motherboard 'beeps' ever come out the internal speaker, as its not a proper sound card, just a square wave thingie).
Actually, I would like to activate that motherboard beeper too. I wrote a program years ago, before I had any sound card on my MS-Dos PC to generate something on it. You could vary the frequency (tone) and length of beep and that just suited an experiment I was doing. I don't know how to do that from a current machine running any UNIX varient (CentOS, FreeBSD, etc) That information may be out there, but I haven't tried lately to dig it up. If you know or have some pointers, it could be helpful.
That was one of the many programs I wrote too. Ah, the days of C coding on DOS.... Good times, but I'm glad they're gone. Today just do this:
On CentOS 5.6 go into System > Preferences > Sound, click on the "System Beep" tab, then click on "Enable System Beep".
No pitch control there though. I can't understand why not.