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?
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