On Thu, 27 May 2004, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > >Am Do, den 27.05.2004 schrieb Bill Pemberton um 21:37: > > > > > > > >>I just upgraded my desktop to FC2 and ran into a minor (but bothersome > >>to me) problem. I no longer get any beep through the PC speaker. > >>I've checked for a change in the termcap and such, but I don't see > >>anything. Has something configured this to be off now? > >> > >> > > > >modprobe pcspkr > > > >Alexander > > > > > > > Has any decision been made how this will be permanently accommodated? > > I've taken to adding it into the entry in /etc/modprobe.conf that loads > your alsa driver, but others may want a way to make the pc speaker work > and don't have a sound card. Besides telling new Linux users to > "modprobe pcspkr" as root every time they boot or edit a startup file to > make their beep work is less than ideal. In FC1, you could put commands to load modules in /etc/rc.modules. They would load early in the startup process (unlike /etc/rc.local, which is the last thing done at startup), so that services that needed them would have them preloaded. When I asked about it on this list, I was assured that it would continue to work. Of course, that falls in the "edit a startup file" category. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
