On Monday 04 July 2005 01:40, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:02, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > However, under my new kernel the PC speaker (which > > I use only for beeping me when mail arrives, when I > > hit tab in a shell and haven't typed enough to > > uniquely identify a file etc) isn't working (no > > beeps). > > > > I'm guessing there's a kernel option under 2.6 > > that's needed to turn the beeper on but wasn't > > required under 2.4. Can anyone point me at it? > > > > Note I'm NOT trying to use the PC speaker as a > > sound card, I know there are folks out there who do > > that but I have a perfectly good sound card with > > perfectly good speakers, all I want from the PC > > speaker is the odd beep at appropriate moments... > > > > Cheers > > > > Mark > > Try > modprobe pcspkr > > []'s > Cláudio
Woah, now I feel stupid -- modprobe pcspkr and lo and behold my machine is beeping away like it's going out of fashion. So I compiled the PC speaker driver as a module then didn't load the module. Duh... Thanks Mark
