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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: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 03:13:45
Message-Id: 532E515A.2040205@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade by null_ptr
1 Am 23.03.2014 00:45, schrieb null_ptr:
2 > On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >> Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr:
4 >>> On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote:
5 >>>> I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such,
6 >>>> but it
7 >>>> prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available & load
8 >>>> it.
9 >>>> On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, "Dat G" <rhannek@×××.de> wrote:
10 >>>>
11 >>>>> On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote:
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>>>> Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is
16 >>>>>>> activated
17 >>>>>>> in kernel config. Am I missing something else?
18 >>>>>>>
19 >>>>>>
20 >>>>>> Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.
21 >>>>>>
22 >>>>> I tried building with that and it didn't fix it.
23 >>>
24 >>> "modprobe pcspkr" doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also
25 >>> tried
26 >>> building it in the kernel.
27 >>>
28 >>> On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be
29 >>> doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on
30 >>> the mainboard and instead beeps through the regular sound device. At
31 >>> least on 3.10.25 I had not build the pcspkr module and the system
32 >>> beeped
33 >>> happily.
34 >>>
35 >>>
36 >>
37 >> Now, are we talking about the motherboard beeping through a little
38 >> builtin speaker that does not work
39 >> or
40 >> Are we talking about your onboard sound not beeping in your
41 >> headphones/your attached speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'?
42 >>
43 >> Either way, I don't see any problem at all. A non-beeping computer is a
44 >> correctly working one.
45 >
46 > I'm talking about the onboard sound not beeping in the attached
47 > headphones/speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'. The problem is
48 > that I used that for some events as a status (e.g. battery running low)
49 > and I like the annoying nature of the beep for these events.
50 >
51 >
52
53 so it is not a 'speaker' problem but a sound card problem. You should
54 have stated that from the beginning.
55
56 Probably something muted that should not be muted.

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Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade wraeth <wraeth@××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi>