Hi, Those links helped very much. Aplay works and I can now hear sound via the audio port. However the alsa-utils only work as root on my machine. I must sudo any of the commands for them to work. What do I need to change so that the utilities will work with non root users? Sorry for being a bit thi...

Hello,
I installed "beep" but still no sound. I believe it was mentioned that the HDMI is the default device for sound. How do I make the on board audio connector the default sound port?

Thanks,
Ron

Hello,
Thanks, beep will do the trick.

Ron

Hello, This is a complete nubie question. I have ported one of my MS windows (console mode) (written in C) to the PI. It works fine. However for the life of me I can not determine how to programmatically use the on board sound card. With MS windows a call to MessageBeep(MB_ICONWARNING) will cause th...