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

[Stephen Kitchener <stephen@g6dzj.demon.co.uk>]

On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 19:50, Sergey Vlasov wrote:

Hi Sergey,

You know - I've just found that and yes it does help on one system, so I'm 50% 
better off - just need to find out where to put the command so that it loads 
it on startup...modules.conf would be it I guess.

Thanks for quick reply.

Steve
> 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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