Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] [RFC] make PC Speaker driver work on x86-64 | Date | Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:29:32 +0100 |
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On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:32, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes: > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 20:30, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >> I have a pair of Athlon64 machines that dual-boot 32-bit and > >> 64-bit kernels. One annoying difference between the kernels > >> is that the PC Speaker driver (CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y) only > >> works in the 32-bit kernels. > > > > Ah, I would consider this more a feature than a bug but ok :) > > > >> In the 64-bit kernels it remains > >> inactive and doesn't even generate any boot-time initialisation > >> or error messages. > > That means that the system wouldn't beep on the console or when you > call "beep", right? > > With 2.6.8 x86_64 that worked without problems. Since I updated to > 2.6.15 the system is silent. > > Could it be that this is a recent problem?
I think it's as described; the pcspkr driver changed in design around this time and needs to be plugged, now. It's probably exactly the same issue.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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