From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: caszonyi@rdslink.ro Subject: Re: disabled system speaker: how to enable? Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 05:33:51 +0200 (EET) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Calin Szonyi Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Miller Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs