Re: disabled system speaker: how to enable?

caszonyi
2004-01-01T03:33:51Z

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