Re: PC speaker stopped working after upgrade to Squeeze

[Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk>]

On 04/10/11 20:10, Curt wrote:
> On 2011-10-02, Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.

Thanks again,

Roger