From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751138AbWD3Oer (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:34:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751139AbWD3Oer (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:34:47 -0400 Received: from mx5.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De ([134.2.12.32]:4040 "EHLO mx5.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbWD3Oeq (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:34:46 -0400 To: Andi Kleen Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, Mikael Pettersson , linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] [RFC] make PC Speaker driver work on x86-64 References: <200604291830.k3TIUA23009336@harpo.it.uu.se> <200604301046.22369.ak@suse.de> From: Goswin von Brederlow Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:32:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200604301046.22369.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:46:22 +0200") Message-ID: <878xpnt9ps.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen 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