Re: System beeper - no sound from mobo's own speaker

From: Sergey Vlasov
Date: Sun Jan 23 2005 - 14:54:38 EST


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:37:53 +0000 Stephen Kitchener wrote:

> I seem to have a problem that, in that when I am using the kernel supplied
> with Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 and also fedora 3, there seems to be a distinct
> lack of beeps coming from the system, once it is up and running. I am NOT
> talking about sounds that might be coming from any sound card that might be
> connected to the system, but the plain old speaker that sits in the PC case.

Does "modprobe pcspkr" help? In 2.6.x kernels the PC speaker support
can be built as a loadable module; probably the startup scripts do not
load it automatically.

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