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 at 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. -- "When a society comes together and makes decisions in harmony, when it respects its most noble traditions, cares for its most vulnerable members, treats its forests and lands with respect, then it will prosper and not decline." --Buddha, Mahaparinirvana Sutra