<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Matthew Saltzman <<a href="mailto:mjs@clemson.edu">mjs@clemson.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I do find it a handy way to generate a repeated sound to test whether there's been any progress on getting my Thinkpad volume control buttons working (there hasn't, at least in F8), but (a) you might think that's a counterproductive use 8^) and (b) I'm not advocating keeping it just for that. </blockquote></div> can't you test that with the System->Prefs->Hardware->Sound tone tests? -jef