[gentoo-user] No beep.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Gentoo.

I've almost got my new(ish) machine up and running.  In particular, I've
got an email server (s/qmail) running on it, the most difficult part of
bringing up a new box.

However, during the building, I discovered to my disgust that there was
no loudspeaker in my new case.  So, none of the helpful booting beeps
that the motherboard uses to tell us that something's wrong.  Still, I
got past that stage.

But just typing into a virtual tty, sometimes the system (should) beep.
It doesn't.  It should.

It should, because I compiled the kernel with CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP
and CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP_MODE set to 1.

My loudspeakers are working, as shown by running speaker-test.  I'm
using the kernel I think I am, verified by checking those two config
settings in /proc/config.gz.

Would somebody please suggest to me where I am going wrong, here?

Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).