PC Speaker... yet again

[Eli Barzilay]

"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> writes:

> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> writes:
> > 
> >> If those sliders are not showing, same thing as above, go into Edit,
> >> then Preferences and make sure that it is checked.
> > 
> > Actually, it has no "PC Speaker" category.  (I've never seen a desktop
> > with the speaker being controlled by the audio card.)
> > 
> I have both a laptop and desktop system where the PC speaker output
> is routed through the sound card. Just about every sound card I have
> run across, back to the original Sound Blaster ISA card, have had an
> input where you could connect the PC speaker output from the
> motherboard. I can be handy to be able to control the speaker volume
> in the mixer...

I never bothered going in and tweaking wires -- the system beep was
always at a good level for me.  (Except on those obnoxious IBM
laptops.)

In any case, even if this is done, a disabled system beep will still
not work since nothing would go to the sound card.

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