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Re: PC speaker stopped working after upgrade to Squeeze



On 05/10/11 01:30, Roger Lynn wrote:
> On 04/10/11 20:10, Curt wrote:
>> On 2011-10-02, Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> wrote:
>>> When I upgraded my Lenny AMD64 system to Squeeze earlier this year, the
>>> PC speaker (ie motherboard buzzer) stopped working. To get it to work I
>>> have to remove and re-add the pcspkr kernel module using modprobe every
>>> time I reboot. The only relevant bits I can find in dmesg are:
>> 
>> Same thing happened to me. I never figured it out. 
>> 
>> Looks like this bug, though, now that I'm googling again:
>> 
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604197
>> 
>> The workaround is to add the line "blacklist pcspkr" to
>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and the line "pcspkr" to /etc/modules,
>> which has for effect to load the module later (like when you reload it,
>> I guess).  Then it works first time every time.
> 
> Thank you, that looks like exactly the same problem, and the workaround
> seems logical. I'll try it and see what happens next time I reboot,
> although I don't do that very often.

I forgot to report back that this did have the desired effect. I just
need to remember to take it out again next time I upgrade.

Roger


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