Since the last kernel upgrade the motherboard beep of my system has gone silent. The notebook is a HP Compaq 6710b and with an Intel 82801H Chipset (see attached lscpi -k) Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is activated in kernel config. Am I missing something else? ---- null_ptr B: Are you pondering what I'm pondering? P: Well, I think so, Brain, but do I really need two tongues?