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@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - > - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
