Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr:
> On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote:
>> I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such,
>> but it
>> prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available & load it.
>> On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, "Dat G" <rhannek@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is
>>>>> activated
>>>>> in kernel config. Am I missing something else?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.
>>>>
>>> I tried building with that and it didn't fix it.
>
> "modprobe pcspkr" doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also
> tried
> building it in the kernel.
>
> On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be
> doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on
> the mainboard and instead beeps through the regular sound device. At
> least on 3.10.25 I had not build the pcspkr module and the system beeped
> happily.
>
>

you should have started with that bit of information.

Now, are we talking about the motherboard beeping through a little
builtin speaker that does not work
or
Are we talking about your onboard sound not beeping in your
headphones/your attached speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'?

Either way, I don't see any problem at all. A non-beeping computer is a
correctly working one.