Hi, i found this snippet: drivers/char/vt.c: 85 /* 86 * Generates sound of some frequency for some number of clock ticks 87 * 88 * If freq is 0, will turn off sound, else will turn it on for that time. 89 * If msec is 0, will return immediately, else will sleep for msec time, then 90 * turn sound off. 91 * 92 * We also return immediately, which is what was implied within the X 93 * comments - KDMKTONE doesn't put the process to sleep. 94 */ 95 96 #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__alpha__) || defined(__powerpc__) \ 97 || (defined(__mips__) && defined(CONFIG_ISA)) \ 98 || (defined(__arm__) && defined(CONFIG_HOST_FOOTBRIDGE)) Does any of the currently supported mips architectures actually support this ? I guess the RM200 could but i dont think that tree will actually work. I suggest to apply this: Index: drivers/char/vt.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/linux/drivers/char/vt.c,v retrieving revision 1.30 diff -u -r1.30 vt.c --- drivers/char/vt.c 2001/03/09 20:33:59 1.30 +++ drivers/char/vt.c 2001/05/04 11:44:13 @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ */ #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__alpha__) || defined(__powerpc__) \ - || (defined(__mips__) && defined(CONFIG_ISA)) \ + || !defined(__mips__) \ || (defined(__arm__) && defined(CONFIG_HOST_FOOTBRIDGE)) static void As most mips architectures having ISA dont support this - Any the ones who actually want it may enable it instead of the 10-20 subarchs which dont support it do disable this. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?