Re: More sound strangeness
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> >
> > By the way, I don't think the system beep is produced through the
> > sound card.
>
> on x86 hardware that is correct, since the internal speaker on x86
> hardware is not attached to sound hardware (at least in any x86 ive
> ever seen) about all the internal speaker of an x86 can do is beep.
Actually, way back when, there used to be linux driver/user program
to play sound from the system speaker. As sound hardware became
cheaper and more prevelent, and because the sound quality was
as-you-might-expect, it faded away.
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