Connecting Flat creen monitor with saudio speakers to B/W G3

I have connected a HP 17" Flat Panel Monitor to my old standby B/W G3 PPC with its one little speaker on the front panel. The monitor has two built-in speakers but do not work. Does anyone know if or how I can activate the speakers in the monitor?

Hi, Darrell -
...what my daughter did with my B/W, which was CONNECT another cable to the B/W from the headphone jack to the headphone jack of the monitor.
Every monitor I've had that connected via VGA and had built-in speakers also required a separate audio cable, connecting those two ports ('audio out' on the Mac, 'audio in' on the monitor). Most, if not all, of those monitors came with such a cable to facilitate the connection.
How would you connect a monitor to a Mac Mini, which does not come with a monitor. What would one do if a monitor that was purchased specifically for the Mini and came equipped with speakers, not use the monitor's speakers.
The user would need to connect a separate audio cable between the Mac and the monitor.
Apple has no way of knowing in advance how the purchaser wants to use audio from their Mac. Some folk are content with the limitations of mono from a small (not very good) built-in speaker; others, probably most, want more. "More" can be speakers in a monitor; a dedicated speaker system, ranging from low-end to high-end; headphones; or even using an existing audio system. The answer is to keep the audio separate, by providing a separate audio 'out' port usable for all of those. This has been consistent for Macs for many, many generations.
One distinct advantage of this is when a cable is plugged into the audio 'out' port, the internal speaker is disabled. This effect would be difficult to achieve if the audio was slaved into the monitor's cable.
Of course, for some audiophiles and MIDI users that is not sufficient for their needs, and so there are 3rd-party PCI cards that can be added to provide better audio quality and performance.

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