System beeper - no sound from mobo's own speaker

System beeper - no sound from mobo's own speaker

[Stephen Kitchener]

Hi,

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.

This, to my mind, is not very usefull for a server or a laptop that might 
generate system beeps, ie inserting a wifi card for instance on a laptop.

As I'm running Mandrake I have posted this to them, but as of yet I have had 
no responce or reaction. I did do a search and I found at least one user of 
Redhat reporting the same sort of problem, so I am guessing that it's not a 
problem that is of Mandrakes doing, ie they forgot to include it in the 
kernel that they bult for their distribution.

I have installed the latest kernel from fedora 2.6.10, but that didn't change 
things.

Please let me know if I have posted something that is a known problem, and 
I'll shut up and wait for a new kernel to be release that has this fixed. I 
cannot beleive that this has been missed in testing, but at the same time I 
have no beeps at all from any of the 3 machines that I have tested and it has 
been reported to me, by a friend that is running Mandrake 10.1, he is running 
different hardware, and can confirm that it was working before the upgrade. 
The only common thing before we changed as that we were both running 2.4 
kernels.

I can supply details of hardware if wanted.

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

[Sergey Vlasov]

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

[Stephen Kitchener]

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

[Anssi Hannula]

Stephen Kitchener wrote:
> On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 19:50, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 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.

Put it on /etc/modprobe.preload

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Anssi Hannula

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

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 21:58, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Stephen Kitchener wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 19:50, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Put it on /etc/modprobe.preload

Thanks

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