Re: [discuss] [RFC] make PC Speaker driver work on x86-64

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Saturday 29 April 2006 20:30, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>> I have a pair of Athlon64 machines that dual-boot 32-bit and
>> 64-bit kernels. One annoying difference between the kernels
>> is that the PC Speaker driver (CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y) only
>> works in the 32-bit kernels. 
>
> Ah, I would consider this more a feature than a bug but ok :)
>
>> In the 64-bit kernels it remains 
>> inactive and doesn't even generate any boot-time initialisation
>> or error messages.

That means that the system wouldn't beep on the console or when you
call "beep", right?

With 2.6.8 x86_64 that worked without problems. Since I updated to
2.6.15 the system is silent.

Could it be that this is a recent problem?

MfG
        Goswin
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