no sound from internal mono channel on Aopen MiniPC

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 03:08 -0800, John Cole wrote:
> 
>>Well, the internal speaker is plugged into the motherboard, but I
>>don't know how to set the mixer to address it.
> 
> 
> Just to be perfectly clear...
> 
> Do you mean that you've plugged the speaker into the speaker output on
> the motherboard?  Which means that it, the speaker, should "beep" at
> appropriate times, itself.
> 
> Or do you mean that you've taken the motherboard's speaker output and
> cabled it up to the sound card's speaker input?  Which means that
> speaker beeps will come through the sound system just the same as wave
> files, and anything else generated by the sound card?
> 
> NB:  Even if the sound card is part of the motherboard, you might still
> have to play with cables.
> 
With some motherboards, there is a speaker output from the sound
card that provides a mono output that drives a speaker. It usually
is controlled by the same control that will drive external speakers.
Plugging in an external speaker normally disables this speaker.

Mikkel
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