no sound from internal mono channel on Aopen MiniPC

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:38:51PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> John Cole wrote:
> > Hello,
> >   I'm trying to get the internal mono sound speaker to work on an Aopen
> > MiniPC.  I get sound from the external jack but none from the internal
> > speaker.
> > 
> >   Scouring the web, I have performed the modprobe pcpskr and gotten it
> > to appear in a lsmod after a reboot.  I have made sure it is not muted
> > and the volume is up (among many other combinations :-) )
> > 
> >   The documentation seems to indicate that the internal speaker is a
> > mono sound channel, so I don't know if it is supposed to use pcspkr or not.
> > 
> <---------------[ SNIP ]----------->
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be apreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John Cole
> > 
> I don't think the pcspkr will talk to this speaker. I am not sure
> about your setup, but the ones I have seen drive this speaker using
> the sound card. It is also disconnected as soon as you plug into the
> external jack. Look at your output speaker settings - you may have
> something like Phone Out.
> 
> Mikkel
> -- 
I still think alsamixer has a channel to control the sound to this
internal device through the sound card.
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