Internal mobo speaker: how to make it output sound as a test

[SFR]

You could play your whole hard disk drive with it if you wanted to.

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cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/audio

will "play" the entire HDD
(Warning - reversing the order would destroy the data on disk!)

Unfortunately, the "beep" command doesn't work on my laptop.
Does anyone know how to redirect "beep" output into a regular speakers?

Greetings!

[L18L]

...Unfortunately, the "beep" command doesn't work on my laptop.
Does anyone know how to redirect "beep" output into a regular speakers?

pc speaker module needs to be loaded.
On my box:

# lsmod | grep pcspkr
pcspkr 1195 0
#

You could try

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modprobe pcspkr

and put this into rc.local if successful.

(I am talking about busybox beep in racy 53 on cheap VIA box)


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Flash,
I think SFR has found your "program"
(reminds me of "beautiful noise coming up from the street")

[L18L]

Puppians like GUIs

Here is one

Have fun

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beep -f363 -l400 -d1000 -r3

That is the example in the image below
Paste it into a console and press ENTER key to play it

[SFR]

...Unfortunately, the "beep" command doesn't work on my laptop.
Does anyone know how to redirect "beep" output into a regular speakers?

pc speaker module needs to be loaded.
On my box:

# lsmod | grep pcspkr
pcspkr 1195 0
#

You could try

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modprobe pcspkr

and put this into rc.local if successful.

(I am talking about busybox beep in racy 53 on cheap VIA box)

Thanks, but still silence...
Well, bad luck...nevermind...

Greetings!

[Dave_G]

From what I can gather, the compatibility of "beep" is pretty much
a random thing.
In the "old" days, mobos had a dedicated speaker output which used
the built in timer to generate the tones.
However newer mobos no longer seem to have this presumably so
the manufactures can save 2 or 3 cents.

Now on the newer HD audio sound cards, many chip sets have a "beep" emulator
so the "beep" will work but the problem comes in with AC97 (a.k.a. PCI Audio) sound cards.
Some support the redirection of "beep" whilst others don't.

This is not unique to Puppy or Linux and affects Windoze too.

[SFR]

In the "old" days, mobos had a dedicated speaker output which used
the built in timer to generate the tones.

One day I must set up Puppy on my (hopefully yet) barely alive, 13 y.o. box and will return to this...
But ...>/dev/audio is a fun too, after all.

Greetings!

[Flash]

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cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/audio

will "play" the entire HDD

Flash,
I think SFR has found your "program"
(reminds me of "beautiful noise coming up from the street")

Yes, I think that's it. Thanks, SFR.

I tried to play a directory containing a bunch of mp3 files with it but it refused. I need to research the use of the cat command and the use of dev/, I guess.

[L18L]

Beep-Gui extended

Musicians like to have length of a tone not in milliseconds, I think