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Does anyone know how exactly Xy interacts with a
sound card to produce error and correction beeps? I really need these audible
cues, since I have to look frequently at the keyboard (to get back on the home
row, once I'm off it), not to mention sometimes typing from notes. On my laptop,
until the sound card died, I used to hear them fine, but not a peep on the new
system. When I command:
VA/NV CB [or EB]
I get the default values (52,4096 for CB and
1792,36865 for EB). Recalling from my first 486 that faster systems require
higher values, at least for duration, I have set the second figures in both to
their maxima (65534 for both) and played around with various possibilities, from
low to high (one assumes the larger number denotes a higher pitch, and therefore
one less audible to agèd ears). All this with DEFAULT commands from the Command
Line. I note that my current SETTINGS.DFL (which has to be tweaked and
customized) has no value for either, but surely if it is set from the CmdLine it
should take effect?
The
sound card and speakers are working fine within Windoesn't. I don't usually
bother with sound, rarely having need of it except for error and correction
beeps, but sound is built-in to this MoBo, and hence the speaker appears to be
automatically disabled. So to get the beeps I need the sound, but Xy doesn't
appear to be talking to the sound card, though, as I said, it did to the one in
my laptop and does the the system at the office I've been running it on
temporarily.
Patricia
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