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From: caszonyi@rdslink.ro
To: James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disabled system speaker: how to enable?
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 05:33:51 +0200 (EET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0401010532030.589@grinch.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312311325080.465@debian-box>

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, James Miller wrote:

> We recently installed Gentoo Linux on a laptop, which went successfully
> for the most part.  The Gentoo install seems to run from a ramdisk Linux
> version, and it includes things like the links browser so you can go
> online during the install to check documentation.  We also installed an
> application there that used the console beep (a chat client) to keep in
> touch with someone during the install.  The system speaker/console beep on
> the machine worked fine at this stage, and would beep as it was supposed
> to when someone would send a message.  On the installed system, however,
> the console beep/system speaker is not working.  It doesn't work in the
> chat client, and issuing | echo -e "\a" | doesn't make the system speaker
> beep either (no error responses or anything, just a blank line like it's
> trying to ring the system bell, then a return to bash prompt).  This is
> the 2.6 kernel, btw.  So, what could the problem be?  Should we have maybe
> enabled console beep when we compiled the kernel or something?  Any other
> things I could check/implement to get it working?
>

you should have these lines in your kernel .config

CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y

> Thanks, James

Calin

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-01  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-31 19:33 disabled system speaker: how to enable? James Miller
2004-01-01  3:33 ` caszonyi [this message]
2004-01-01 23:44   ` Debian network reconfigure jamtat
2004-01-01 23:54     ` Ray Olszewski
2004-01-02  0:38       ` James Miller
2004-01-04 20:43       ` starting and stopping networking James Miller
2004-01-04 20:49         ` caszonyi
2004-01-04 21:07           ` James Miller
2004-01-04 21:14             ` Jacob Langley
2004-01-04 21:19             ` caszonyi
2004-01-04 21:28               ` James Miller
2004-01-04 21:41                 ` James Miller
2004-01-04 22:24                   ` Ray Olszewski
2004-01-04 21:32               ` Alan Bort
2004-01-04 23:26                 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-01-04 23:51                   ` Alan Bort
2004-01-05  0:28                     ` Ray Olszewski
2004-01-05  3:11                       ` Alan Bort
2004-01-05  3:55                         ` Juan Facundo Suárez

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