Re: [discuss] [RFC] make PC Speaker driver work on x86-64

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:32, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> 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.
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