Re: A curiosity about multi-user systems?

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W dniu 25.02.2021 o 13:56, Chris Brannon pisze:
> Michał Zegan <webczat_200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> What? I mean it should work unless there is no longer pc speaker
>> emulation wired to sound card like I have. You'd just enable that and
>> pcspkr driver. Or what do you mean?
> 
> I don't think the PC speaker emulation is done everywhere.  Every laptop
> I've ever used seems to have it, though.
> 
> I was doing some reading about this the other day, because I have a
> machine on my desk that beeps at boot from the sound card, but has no PC
> speaker beep once it is booted.  It's a little Intel NUC.  I'm pretty
> sure it must have PC speaker emulation of some sort, because of the beep
> at boot that it makes before the bootloader is loaded.  Apparently
> sometimes this stuff has to be enabled from the BIOS.  I need to get
> some sighted help to look at the BIOS on my NUC and see if that's my
> problem.
In case you wouldn't know, few hints:
first, the pc speaker controls may be on alsa, so you can use amixer to
set that, just make sure you are configuring the "sysdefault" device,
not the "default" if you use pulseaudio.
And second hint is: In my case I also had one alsa control called
automute that I had to disable before playing with pc speaker state/volume.
Maybe it helps, maybe not, it's ofc possible there is just no related
controls in your case on this nuc. But I definitely had to configure all
this and then load pcspkr for it to work.
> 
> PS.  Speaking of PC speakers, I found something really awesome the other
> day.  The GRUB 2 bootloader can output in Morse code using the PC
> speaker.  It is pretty useful as long as a system has one that is
> working.  It sends very slowly, slower than 5 words per minute I think.
> As far as I can tell by looking at the code, there's no way to change
> the sending rate (yet).  I customized some of my GRUB messages to be one
> or two letters, so that I could get feedback from GRUB about the boot
> process without it being terribly slow.  I use a very custom and trimmed
> down grub.cfg.
> 
> Anyway I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about GRUB2.
> 

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