pc speaker

[Jing Su]

> I recently upgraded a debian installation from woody to sarge, and
> compiled a 2.6.3 kernel.  Everything seems to work fine (alsa + esd
> is *really* cool) except for my pc speaker.  I enabled the pc speaker
> option in the kernel ("Y" not "M"), and /proc/bus/input/devices shows
> the pc speaker, but i still don't get any beeps.
>
> I found several mentions of problems with 2.6.x and the pc speaker, but
> none seem to have any solutions beyond "recompile with correct option"
> or "make sure pc speaker isn't muted in mixer" (it isn't).  It could
> be that the pc speaker is not working because I am not on standard
> tty (/initrd/dev/ttyN) - I am running on a live cd.  Could this be
> the problem?  Any ideas on how I can solve it?

I also had trouble getting PC speaker when compiled in instead of module.
Compile the PC speaker as a module, and load it with:
modprobe pcspkr

That should get you pc speaker beeps (hopefully)

-Jing
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