Re: Computer beeping but no sound on

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

>>>>> "H" == Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com> writes:

H> Any thoughts as to why my system would be beeping?  Its the speaker
H> inside the case.  The speakers are off and the Linux sound control is
H> muted.  When mute is off, the beeps come from the speakers.

My problem is ever since I turned up the volume with aumix,
echo -e \\a>/dev/console
now comes out my fancy speakers as well as the built in one.
However every other program or way of playing an audio file just
hangs.