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?
mark
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).
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.
Thanks,
////jerry
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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.
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).
Streaming audio: a 'Net "radio station".
And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine.
mark
On 07/29/11 11:22 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine.
sound cards have a myriad of different ways they can be connected to outputs.... its possible your motherboard's audio mixer has a output to the internal speaker. usually these can be controlled via a 'mixer' program, but the sound drivers have to know exactly what hardware is connected where on the outside of the core audio chip for all this to work sanely.
On 7/29/2011 1:22 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Streaming audio: a 'Net "radio station".
And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine.
That's usually a hardware thing where plugging something into the headphone jack breaks the connections to the speakers.
Les Mikesell wrote:
On 7/29/2011 1:22 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Streaming audio: a 'Net "radio station".
And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine.
That's usually a hardware thing where plugging something into the headphone jack breaks the connections to the speakers.
I know. That's why I mentioned what I'd done, and that I was confused, because that's the result I expected, and I'm not getting it.
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On 7/29/2011 1:22 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine.
That's usually a hardware thing where plugging something into the headphone jack breaks the connections to the speakers.
I know. That's why I mentioned what I'd done, and that I was confused, because that's the result I expected, and I'm not getting it.
I *think* I've got it: my manager suggested pavucontrol, but the only place I found that was a repo he'd rather I didn't use. Then I tried playing, again, with kmix from the panel, and this time I went to configure it, and tried adding the control for IEC958I; I mute that, and it seems to be quiet, and the speakers are working.
mark "system-config-soundcard is too complicated, I guess..."
On Saturday, July 30, 2011 03:29 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On 7/29/2011 1:22 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine.
That's usually a hardware thing where plugging something into the headphone jack breaks the connections to the speakers.
I know. That's why I mentioned what I'd done, and that I was confused, because that's the result I expected, and I'm not getting it.
I *think* I've got it: my manager suggested pavucontrol, but the only place I found that was a repo he'd rather I didn't use. Then I tried playing, again, with kmix from the panel, and this time I went to configure it, and tried adding the control for IEC958I; I mute that, and it seems to be quiet, and the speakers are working.
mark "system-config-soundcard is too complicated, I guess..."
What happened to the screaming and pulseaudio bashing? This is so serene...
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