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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:40:16
Message-Id: 532E1147.1040105@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade by null_ptr
1 Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr:
2 > On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote:
3 >> I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such,
4 >> but it
5 >> prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available & load it.
6 >> On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, "Dat G" <rhannek@×××.de> wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote:
9 >>>
10 >>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:
11 >>>>
12 >>>>> Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is
13 >>>>> activated
14 >>>>> in kernel config. Am I missing something else?
15 >>>>>
16 >>>>
17 >>>> Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.
18 >>>>
19 >>> I tried building with that and it didn't fix it.
20 >
21 > "modprobe pcspkr" doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also
22 > tried
23 > building it in the kernel.
24 >
25 > On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be
26 > doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on
27 > the mainboard and instead beeps through the regular sound device. At
28 > least on 3.10.25 I had not build the pcspkr module and the system beeped
29 > happily.
30 >
31 >
32
33 you should have started with that bit of information.
34
35 Now, are we talking about the motherboard beeping through a little
36 builtin speaker that does not work
37 or
38 Are we talking about your onboard sound not beeping in your
39 headphones/your attached speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'?
40
41 Either way, I don't see any problem at all. A non-beeping computer is a
42 correctly working one.

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