Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

[null_ptr]

On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr:
>> On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote:
>>> I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such,
>>> but it
>>> prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available & load it.
>>> On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, "Dat G" <rhannek@×××.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is
>>>>>> activated
>>>>>> in kernel config. Am I missing something else?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.
>>>>>
>>>> I tried building with that and it didn't fix it.
>>
>> "modprobe pcspkr" doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also
>> tried
>> building it in the kernel.
>>
>> On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be
>> doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on
>> the mainboard and instead beeps through the regular sound device. At
>> least on 3.10.25 I had not build the pcspkr module and the system beeped
>> happily.
>>
>>
>
>Now, are we talking about the motherboard beeping through a little
>builtin speaker that does not work
>or
>Are we talking about your onboard sound not beeping in your
>headphones/your attached speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'?
>
>Either way, I don't see any problem at all. A non-beeping computer is a
>correctly working one.

I'm talking about the onboard sound not beeping in the attached
headphones/speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'. The problem is
that I used that for some events as a status (e.g. battery running low)
and I like the annoying nature of the beep for these events.