For me, sometimes those beeps are handy. I'll keep looking for a
solution.
Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Everything happens after coffee!
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 03/15/2017 04:44 PM, stan wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:20:34 -0500 (CDT)
> > Mark Peveto <southernprince73(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> New to Fedora, although not all that new to linux itself.
> >> How do I go about enabling the pc speaker in Fedora 25? I can't seem
> >> to find any blacklist file in modprobe.d, but it's definitely turned
> >> off. Thanks.
> >
> > I don't use the PC speaker, and I think that it is turned off in the
> > fedora kernels, so in order to enable it, you will have to compile a
> > custom kernel. Or maybe I just have it turned off in my custom
> > compiles.
> >
> > It's under device drivers/sound devices in the config menus. If you
> > have a stock Fedora kernel installed, do a grep for PCSPKR in the
> > corresponding config file in /boot to check the status.
> >
> > I recall that a few years ago the alsa developers were talking about
> > disabling it by default in alsa as well, so it might also be turned off
> > in the Fedora package. You could probably set an option to turn it on
> > in alsa again if the kernel supports it.
> >
> > Maybe someone else on the list uses the PC speaker and can confirm that
> > it works.
>
> Default Fedora kernels include the driver as a module, "pcspkr.ko.xz",
> so you'd need to modprobe it in. What you'd do with it, I have no idea.
>
> It's useful when the BIOS pukes during self test mode, but I have no use
> for it beyond that. Most of the ones I've seen recently aren't even
> speakers anymore, but piezoelectric buzzers. Pretty useless to try to
> do anything except "beep" at you.
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