PC Speaker synth for Speakup?

[James Poss]

Hello all,
Yes, the internal speaker would be very low volume, as I have used the windows
pc speaker driver in the passed before I was blessed with a soundcard.
However, most laptops route the internal speaker through the built-in
soundcard if there is one, and it is a simple matter of running a wire from
the pins of the pc speaker to the pc speaker input on most soundcards.
Unfortunately, there are some exceptions such as the IBM Aptiva line of
computers, in which case the speaker is actually soddered directly to the
board.
If however, the seaker is connected via a wire that can be removed, a pc
speaker synthesizer would most likely work quite nicely.

Jim


Adam Myrow wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I was just thinking: Would it be possible to right drivers to use the pc
> > speaker as a synth in speakup? Then for those who don't have a hardware
> > synth that would work.
>
> Maybe, but I'm not sure it would be understandable.  I mean, the PC
> speaker is really small and quite limited.  I recall there used to be a
> kernel patch to use the PC speaker as a sound card, so it is theoretically
> possible, but again, it would be hard to understand and very likely
> low-volume.
>
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