I ended up here while working on bug 234084 on a pile of EPIA cards. My scenario is as follows:
I run several servers on very low-power EPIA motherboards. They have been on 6.04 since day one, with no problems. They are just 24/7 connected boxes. No displays, no keyboards, no nothing. Just mobo and up to four hard drives each, happily churning away the EPIAs HW encryption on a small VPN. After some heavy tinkering, I got 8.04 running on my "update candidate" board, but only after installing the Intrepid version of kernel due to USB problems, as descibed in that 234084 bug report. The trouble with the spanking new 2.6.27-1-server kernel is that the box stay quiet at boot, unless if force ACPI on in menu.lst This is due to the snd-pcsp not finding a fast enough timer without ACPI. There is a bad history on stability with EPIA boards and ACPI=force, so I would not want to have that activated, just to get a simple "beep- beep-I am alive" from the box. So the question is: Why doesn't the kernel fall back to pcspkr if snd-pcsp does not find a fast enough timer? Is being mute really the right alternative, especially when even some recent embedded use motherboards have issues with this, not to mention the older ones. All my servers are no-display, no-keyboard, full UPS backed, low power file servers on a network. They will never attempt to play MP3's through their internal speaker. All I want is to hear a simple "all clear" or "oops, did not boot properly" beeps when I turn them on. Like on all Linux servers since 1999 when I first started fiddling with them... So this alteration can not really be seen as "progress" from basic server version user point of view. Why does even the server version if Intrepid default to snd_pcsp? Do server users really want to play MP3's in their racked servers? Of course, if there is a workaround that allows me to boot without ACPI=force and still get something out when using the "beep" command, please let me know. Then this is not an issue. In the mean time, I'll see if there has been any progress with the ACPI=force and stability since 6.04... -- linux 2.6.27-2.3: pcspkr should be enabled too, now that snd-pcsp is blacklisted by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
