Bug#257629: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp: load pcspkr by default
Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp
Version: 2.6.7-1
Severity: normal
I've found lots of mailing list messages about this, but no bug, so let
me report it. The 2.6 kernels don't support pcspkr by default.
Possible solutions:
- Build it statically in the kernel. This seems fine to me, but some
people seem to have a thing about everything being modular...
- Have a list of modules loaded automatically at boot. Sort of an
/etc/modules owned by the kernel package. (/etc/modules.d?)
- Have discover or some other hardware auto-detection program take care
of it. It seems discover should be smart enough to know that almost
any PC has speaker.
Andrew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.0.91-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.0.91-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.71 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.1-pre4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
-- no debconf information
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