I have some admittedly old but functional Dell desktops that all use the CS4236 on-board sound card. The audio can be good but even better, any beeps from the P.C. speaker are mixed with the analog output from the CS4236. If you set amixer correctly, the beep utility gives you a nice square-wave tone which is what the timer-counter chip used for the P.C. speaker does. The problem is that as of wheezy, the CS4236 is no longer supported and does not show up with aplay -l. A different sound card such as some of the SoundBlasters or other non CS4236 cards or even a USB sound card works and can be card 0 but you lose the P.C. speaker beep in your audio output. Has anybody found a way to get it back that works at the hardware level? Another side effect of this state is that speakup is apt to never work properly which means one's choice is to keep one older system frozen in time at one of the earlier versions of Linux so it talks. The truth about the CS4236 is that it has issues such as bus activity interferes with the sound at times causing an effect similar to a tape player which is losing it's pinch roller but if you know that, you just use the CS4236 for non-critical audio. I would just like to get it back as one of the sound cards so the P.C. speaker audio can be fed to headphones and speakup could work on systems that are otherwise capable of using it. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list