[SLL] redirect PC speaker to sound card

[Paul A. Franz, P.E.]

On Fri, September 5, 2008 11:49 am, William Kreuter wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers.  I should have first looked
> in the Howto instead of googling.
>
> Oplbeep and modreq turned out to be pretty ancient
> kernel patches that I decided not to deal with.

I saw that 2001 date and was a bit concerned. However, the possibility that the sound
card had input terminals for the beep speaker pair was what I would have been hoping
for. But mostly sound is not on a card anymore so hoping for SB16 compatibility might
be wishful thinking.

A few years back, using Redhat 4.1 I found some code to get me started and I was able
to make barely discernible music through the beep speaker. I believe using tar was
involved. That was, of course, with a working beep speaker but no sound board. I still
have that machine too, a 386/25 with 32MB of RAM in banks of 9 chips in a row filling
two full length boards. Had 3 120 MB hard drives, CDROM and two floppy drives, 4
parallel ports and supported three modems and a mouse on 4 serial ports. Dandy print
and modem server. Networked it with IPX/SPX too to a Netware 4.1 Server. At the time,
it was an expensive machine. The board was made by JCIS in California. In its former
life it ran AutoCAD before being loaded with Linux. It was already obsoleted then by
486/66DX2 machines.

> Yesterday I found something called "softbeep", which
> doesn't need kernel patching and seems to do the job
> fairly well.  It does cause xterm and some other
> software to blow up, but that wasn't hard to work
> around.
>
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Paul A. Franz, P.E. wrote:
>
> paul> Extracted from section 6.28 of the Sound-HOWTO
>


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