On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:32, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes: > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 20:30, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >> I have a pair of Athlon64 machines that dual-boot 32-bit and > >> 64-bit kernels. One annoying difference between the kernels > >> is that the PC Speaker driver (CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y) only > >> works in the 32-bit kernels. > > > > Ah, I would consider this more a feature than a bug but ok :) > > > >> In the 64-bit kernels it remains > >> inactive and doesn't even generate any boot-time initialisation > >> or error messages. > > That means that the system wouldn't beep on the console or when you > call "beep", right? > > With 2.6.8 x86_64 that worked without problems. Since I updated to > 2.6.15 the system is silent. > > Could it be that this is a recent problem? I think it's as described; the pcspkr driver changed in design around this time and needs to be plugged, now. It's probably exactly the same issue. -- Cheers, Alistair. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
