It works. I installed the newly-built kernel on 3 systems, all older Dells of various but similar configuration. One worked immediately after rebooting. One hasn't worked yet, and the other one is the reason for this message. It seems that the timer/counter signal on this one system is run as an analog input to the sound chip. This particular set of simple mixer controls has one that is called "mono output" and another control just called plain old mono. The "mono output" control will route sound chip audio from either channel to the little internal speaker. The control labeled "mono" turns out to be the output from the timer/counter or classic P.C. speaker. It started working as soon as I turned it on and cranked up the volume. This means that the beeps can go to one's main speakers or headphones. The internal speaker will respond to both the sound card as well as the timer/counter once you have that switch on. There are lots of variations even among the same computers so if you have one that isn't beeping but should be, check the simple mixer controls to see if one of them lets timer/counter audio through. Unfortunately, some P.C.'s have no speaker or somebody disconnected it for some reason so you will have to be a good diagnostician. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list