On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:05:53AM +0000, T o n g wrote: > > I checked my log, the following is what I had in squeeze in on box, but I > don't have either of them in my current box: > > $ amixer | grep -ie 'Beep|Speaker' || echo no > no I think you would need 'Beep\|Speaker' to make that work as you intend. Cheers, David