On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards >><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> b) old school pc-speaker in your computer >>> >>> Even then, how do you play a recorded sound file containing a >>> typeblock-hitting-platen sound through that speaker? It was connected >>> to a timer-counter output pin not a D/A converter (unless you count >>> timer/counter output pin as a 1-bit D/A converter). >> >> I think it just made the generic "beep" (or a beep short enough and >> low enough in tone to sound similar to a click) > > I checked, and I do have the old standard PC-speaker connected to the > motherboard, and "xset c" still does nothing. > >> not playing a custom sound file. > > Which is what the OP asked for.
Hey, it wasn't my idea. Talk to Volker for more details about the xset-as-typewriter-sound idea. :) I didn't reply to the OP. I only replied about xset (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in agreement that it just sounds the system bell (or whatever you call it).
