no sound from internal mono channel on Aopen MiniPC
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Mar 2 17:11:39 UTC 2006
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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