Re: System beep via sound card

[Bob Chiodini <rchiodin bellsouth net>]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 17:21 +0300, Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
> I am sure that this used to work, but I hagve just bought a new sound
> card after many months without sound after the old one gave up on me.
> 
> The new card is an Audigy 2 Value, I am using emu10k1 driver.
> 
> The sound card detection works in the GNOME desktop. However,
> I want the system beep to go through the sound card, and not to
> the tiny speaker in the case.
> 
> Nothing I have tried seems to work, but I am sure it can be done,
> as I remember it used to work with my old sound card.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Michael Ben-Gershon
> mybg netvision net il
> 

Some sound cards have an input for the PC speaker.  IIRC you can connect
a jumper from the speaker connector on the motherboard to the sound
card.

I never figured out a way to make gnome "play" a sound for the beep, KDE
does/can.

Bob...