Thanks to Justin Stringfellow from SUN for pointing out the hardware difference between Blade/USB workstation versus the U10/U60 based workstations. Seems the beeper speaker on U10/U60 was located on the keyboard so the sound seems louder. Blade100/1000/2000 use internal speakers and you have to be more careful were the box is located. It does not appear that the CDE audio control (/usr/dt/bin/sdtaudio) controls the beep volume on Ultra 10/60 or Blade workstations (maybe on GNOME 2.0 or OpenWindows?). I do know that the CDE audio control under our IBM AIX 4.3.3/CDE workstations controls the beeper volume. Maybe we were too quick to EOF our IBM's and only purchase SUN's :-) Marcelino -----Original Message----- From: Marcelino Mata Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:51 PM To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' Subject: Blade 1000 / Solaris 8 beeping Sun managers, I have one user who's productivity is reduced if he can not hear the beep well from the internal Blade 1000 speaker. His main application uses the beep for a lot of the user feedback. He has the speaker side facing away from him and the unit is right beside the monitor. I noticed that the default volume on the Blade 1000 is much lower than Ultra 60 or Ultra 10's. I had to agree with him that it was much more difficult to hear the beep versus our existing U10/U60's. I also noticed that the CDE audio control does not increase the volume settings. The volume setting only allows you to shut-off the volume. Does anyone know if the volume on internal speaker is as high as it can be or if this problem is a CDE/Solaris 8 or Blade 1000 hardware issue? All else failing I will have to ask the user to re-organize his desk so the speaker side directly faces him. The problem with that solution is that it will increase the fan noise from the box. The system has been patched so the fan speed is not at the maximum. Running Solaris 8 10/00 Marcelino _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Jul 30 17:37:19 2002
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