Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > By the way, I don't think the system beep is produced through the > > sound card. > > on x86 hardware that is correct, since the internal speaker on x86 > hardware is not attached to sound hardware (at least in any x86 ive > ever seen) about all the internal speaker of an x86 can do is beep.
Actually, way back when, there used to be linux driver/user program to play sound from the system speaker. As sound hardware became cheaper and more prevelent, and because the sound quality was as-you-might-expect, it faded away. a
