The vanishing PC speaker

[luke Davis]

Have you checked whether the speaker is deactivated in the CMOS?

If you have alsamixer or aumix, you can check there to make sure that the 
PC speaker is activated.

You've obviously tried the modprobe method, but what happens when you do 
that?

My laptop emulates the PC speaker through the sound card.  I did not have 
to configure this--it just worked when I modprobed pcspkr.

Luke


On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Keith Hinton wrote:

> Hi all,
> I recently got a brand-new PC.
> On occasion, I have to test various Linux CDs on it.
> This is a desktop box, from 2009, witha 2009 bios.
> Uses an Asus motherboard.
> The oddest issue is that I believed it had a PC speaker.
> Apparently not, because when I would backspace with bash, or control U
> a lot, no beep would be heard.
> Also, the other reason I have titled my message as such is because
> typing "beep" doesn't work either.
> I have attempted things like: modprobe pcspkr, but no luck either.
> If you have any other suggestions, let me know.
> Thanks!
> P.s.
> Is there a way to get around the bep by causing some other tone to be
> generated other than the sound card? And yes, I've looked, but unlike
> laptops where some "PC speakers" are generated via the sound card,
> that is not the case with this machine at all. There appears to be no
> PC speaker anywhere. I was curious what you folks know about PC
> speakers, are they disappearing from newer computers these days? In
> particular I'm talking about computers intended to say run WIndows 7,
> that type of thing.
> I sometimes find myself using Windows for accessibility reaons, as QT
> applications like Skype still do not yet work.
> Linphone kind of worked while I was in Linux, but it kind of sucked as
> well. Sounded 8K.
> Any other good VOIP applications besides Linphone?
> Thanks!
> Regards, --Keith
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