Re: My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.

[shaulk@netvision.net.il (shaul)]

Thank you all.
Replaced the speaker. Works fine. First time I noticed that my bash also uses 
the speaker to get the user attention.
I still do not know which device is used for the speaker, if any.
grep pcspeaker /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt gives noting with my 
Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34).
Which utility are you using for the phone ringer ?

> Rich Harran. wrote:
> > 
> > When you turn on your computer, it should make a beep noise through the
> > internal speaker as the BIOS initialises (POST).  This is so you know it
> > has started correctly, for example if your monitor fails.  If you do not
> > get any sort of sound at start up, the speaker may be broken, or
> > disconnected.  If you don't mind doing this, take the case off your
> > computer, and check the connection between the speaker and the motherboard
> > - there should probably be a pair of thin plastic-coated wires going via a
> > little plastic plug to two metal prongs somewhere around the edge of the
> > motherboard: check nothing has come loose or is broken.  
> > 
> > It is possible (unlikely?) that your Bios doesn't beep to say everything
> > is ok on start-up, but it definitely should if something is wrong.  You
> > could try taking out your graphics card (if you haven't turned the
> > computer off by now, do so, and take precautions against static dischage),
> > and then re-starting your computer.  If the speaker is working, there will
> > be loads of beeps, as the bios tells you it can't find the primary video
> > (I've heard the knew ACME bios avoids all this noise by printing an
> > informative error message on the screen!).
> 
> I would suggest just unplugging the keyboard to force a bios failure.
> 
> > If your speaker isn't working, I wouldn't worry about the cost of
> > replacing it, as the ones supplied with PC's are invariably cheap crappy
> > ones, and you should be able to get one for around a fiver (english
> > money).  The one I have in my computer was bastardised from a broken
> > cheap radio.
> > 
> > Hope some of this helps, or at least makes sense.  If the speaker is
> > working physically, I can't think of any debian stuff which would use it,
> > but if you've got dos installed, most games will use it.
> 
> 

> Im been trying to use pcspeaker too. Without luck... creating /dev/pcspeaker with MAKEDEV did work either (kernel 2.1.128). I found a utility that play with tha speaker. I use it as a phone ringer...