Just a shot in the dark here, but do you have the volume turned up? I am using the ALSA sound modules, and they, as default, start up with the sound muted. I haven't gotten around to fixing it yet, so every time I reboot that machine, I have to reset the sound levels to something higher than zero.
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:08:07PM -0600, James Miller hunted and pecked out: > Ok. It turns out the system speaker is enabled in the .config file: > > # Input Device Drivers > # > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y > CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y > # CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set > # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set > # CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set > CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y > CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y > # CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT is not set > > I looked through that file for other entries relevant to system speaker > functioning, but nothing jumped out at me (not that I'd know what to make > of it if it did). I also searched a bit online for "system speaker" or > "console beep", narrowed further by "2.6", but didn't find much helpful. > As a next step, just to convince myself that there aren't maybe some > issues regarding the system speaker using the 2.6 kernel, can I ask here > if anyone using that kernel can get system speaker output? echo -e "\a" - > is the traditional command line way of making the system speaker sound. > If you run this kernel and can report results of this command (or whatever > else you might do to sound the system speaker), I would apreciate it. > > Thanks, James > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Theo. Sean Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
