Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:32 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: pieter@degoeje.nl, herbert.raimund@gmx.net, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about yell on a laptop Message-ID: <20091212183932.4cad565f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4B23AEB3.3060808@eskk.nu> References: <4B22553A.9010003@eskk.nu> <20091211181304.2c710d8e.freebsd@edvax.de> <4B23AEB3.3060808@eskk.nu>
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:43 +0100, Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> wrote: > That's what troubles me, I'm used to use Yell so I'm certain that my > config is ok. One thing I've been made aware of is that a laptop > computer maybe do not have a "speaker". Only a sound card will produce > sound in the speakers. Any comments on that? It's quite possible that your laptop doesn't have the "PC speaker functionality". Traditionally, the PC speaker was completely independant from any sound cards. It even was present when no sound card did exist. Early laptops also included such a speaker. More modern laptops then included a sound card and the speaker (three speakers internally), but quicky the PC speaker got removed, and access to its functionality is provided through the sound card, offering a kind of "PC speaker API". And maybe this "PC speaker API" isn't present on your laptop anymore. Does dmesg show any "speaker" lines, such as this? speaker0: <PC speaker> port 0x61 on acpi0 And even if it is shown this way, it doesn't imply that the "PC speaker API" of the sound card is handling the corresponding calls. Finally, and maybe you've already checked it, what is the mixser setting for the PC speaker channel of the sound card, if it does exist? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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