From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:43:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B8E773.5020406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B8D984.7040602@garzik.org>
On 08/07/2007 04:43 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> With no other changes but a kernel upgrade, the pcspkr driver
>> doesn't load automatically anymore. No changes to that driver
>> jump out, so where else could the problem be? Something to
>> do with the device class changes maybe?
>
> This has long been a problem for me on Fedora, long before 2.6.22. I
> would never ever have the glorious system beeps, unless I built the
> module into my kernel.
>
> I would look into distro areas and see why it's not getting loaded.
>
Seems to be some kind of udev / hal magic loading it. With 2.6.20/21
it worked for most people, now it seems totally broken. Maybe we should
just load it unconditionally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 19:33 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically Chuck Ebbert
2007-08-07 20:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-07 21:43 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-08-07 22:23 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 19:32 ` Bill Nottingham
2007-08-08 20:02 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 22:22 ` Bill Nottingham
2007-08-08 22:39 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-04 5:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-11-04 8:30 ` Kay Sievers
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