So this should be a matter of loading a driver, no? The old reliable, that still works on some hardware would be pcspkr. Or, there's the alsa snd-pcsp. If you can load that one run the command: amixer controls |grep -i beep Cleverson Casarin Uliana writes: > Hi Chris, Michal et al. > > Last year, I wanted to buy a laptop capable of beeping, at least during > boot. My first intention was actually to buy a NUC mini-computer made by > Intel, but there was no way I could find correct information whether it > would be able to beep,. Then after asking on some mailing lists, I was > informed that laptops from HP and Lenovo were capable of beeping, so I ended > up buying an HP with basic specs. It is indeed able to beep during boot > using grub2, but curiously, it doesn't beep from within Linux, e.g. using > the beep program, and I was not able to locate any beep related volume > control inside alsaMixer. > > Afterall, each manufacturer certainly has its own proprietary hardware > weirdness... > > Greetings, > Cleverson -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
