Thank you all. Replaced the speaker. Works fine. First time I noticed that my bash also uses the speaker to get the user attention. I still do not know which device is used for the speaker, if any. grep pcspeaker /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt gives noting with my Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34). Which utility are you using for the phone ringer ?
> Rich Harran. wrote: > > > > When you turn on your computer, it should make a beep noise through the > > internal speaker as the BIOS initialises (POST). This is so you know it > > has started correctly, for example if your monitor fails. If you do not > > get any sort of sound at start up, the speaker may be broken, or > > disconnected. If you don't mind doing this, take the case off your > > computer, and check the connection between the speaker and the motherboard > > - there should probably be a pair of thin plastic-coated wires going via a > > little plastic plug to two metal prongs somewhere around the edge of the > > motherboard: check nothing has come loose or is broken. > > > > It is possible (unlikely?) that your Bios doesn't beep to say everything > > is ok on start-up, but it definitely should if something is wrong. You > > could try taking out your graphics card (if you haven't turned the > > computer off by now, do so, and take precautions against static dischage), > > and then re-starting your computer. If the speaker is working, there will > > be loads of beeps, as the bios tells you it can't find the primary video > > (I've heard the knew ACME bios avoids all this noise by printing an > > informative error message on the screen!). > > I would suggest just unplugging the keyboard to force a bios failure. > > > If your speaker isn't working, I wouldn't worry about the cost of > > replacing it, as the ones supplied with PC's are invariably cheap crappy > > ones, and you should be able to get one for around a fiver (english > > money). The one I have in my computer was bastardised from a broken > > cheap radio. > > > > Hope some of this helps, or at least makes sense. If the speaker is > > working physically, I can't think of any debian stuff which would use it, > > but if you've got dos installed, most games will use it. > > > Im been trying to use pcspeaker too. Without luck... creating /dev/pcspeaker > with MAKEDEV did work either (kernel 2.1.128). I found a utility that play > with tha speaker. I use it as a phone ringer...
