Hi Andrew, You are referring to the system speaker, the beep producer. I'm referring to a real (lousy) internal speaker in a Compaq desktop.
Yuval Scharf On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Scharf Yuval wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For dozens of hours I tried to make the ens1371 in my old Compaq computer > > in my university produce any sound with no luck. > > > > Today I tried to play a CD but it didn't work. I became very suspicious, > > playing a CD has very little to do with the OS. > > > > So I took two speakers, connected to the soundcard and booted to Windows. > > Windows kept using the internal speaker. > > > > I booted to Linux, and EVERYTHING worked great with the external > > speakers. :-) > > > > So, Windows uses only the internal speaker and Linux uses only the > > external speakers. > > I wasn't aware the internal speaker could produce anything more than different beeps > ;) Is > this perhaps a laptop? > > > Can someone explain to me what is going on. Usually in computers, if > > there are no external speakers the internal speaker works and when you plug in the > > the external speakers they start to work. Is it a hardware feature or a > > software feature. Can I control which speakers will be use. > > I am currently using my Creative Ensoniq 1371 to play MP3s in Linux. No special > config > required. I just built the driver into the kernel. In my experience, my computer, > nor any > other computer I have worked with, has *never* defaulted to the internal speaker > when I > didn't have external speakers plugged in. > > -- > Andrew Gaffney > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
