Re: 2.6.0 kernel compile overview-the unfolding saga

[caszonyi@rdslink.ro]

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

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