RE: 2.6.0 kernel compile overview-the unfolding saga

[caszonyi@rdslink.ro]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:
> >
> > > Ok.  It turns out the system speaker is enabled in the .config file:
> > >
> > > # Input Device Drivers
> > > #
> > > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
> > > CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
> > > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set
> > > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
> > > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set
> > > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
> > > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
> > > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y
> > > # CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
> > > # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
> > > # CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
> > > CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
> > > CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y
> >
> > this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ makes the speeker beep :-)
> > works for me :-)
> >
> > maybe you forgot to reinstall kernel.
> > Or maybe the kernel build system got confused ?
> >
> > do a make clean and then a make bzImage to regenerate the kernel
> >
> Just to be clear, this *is* the config for the running kernel.  I didn't
> try any recompiling yet, not being sure if it would help since the speaker
> seems already to be enabled in the kernel.  In which case doing "make
> clean" and "make bzImage" don't seem like they would make much difference,
> as I understand it.  So, you're saying that the console beep/system
> speaker works fine on your system with the 2.6 kernel?  If so, I'll
> presume the problem lies in some peculiarity in my system (dang thing
> worked fine under the 2.4.21 Gentoo used for the install!).
>

yes it works. I had the same problem until i realised that i hadn't
CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR in my kernel
here is the relevant part from my config (comments stripped)

CONFIG_INPUT=y

CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768

CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=y

CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y


> Thanks, James
> -


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