PC Speaker in kernel 2.6.22.1-47.fc7

[jbannon]

After upgrading to this kernel, my PC speaker disappeared. After browsing around and trying modprobe I came up with the following new entry in /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules:

#!/bin/sh
exec /sbin/modprobe -a nvram floppy pcspkr >/dev/null 2>&1 &

My speaker is now working. I will have a look on bugzilla to see if this has already been logged.

[jbannon]

Wasn't logged as a bug, so I logged it as a low priority problem since there is a workaround.

[jbannon]

Forgot to add bug number was 251205.

[robatino]

It's already logged as a bug.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249124

[jbannon]

Yeah, I've just received notification. Odd that I couldn't find it. Must have had incorrect parameters in the search.

[robatino]

Although it's known (I reported the original bug, BTW) and I suspect it affects everyone, most people seem to either not notice or not care, which is unfortunate. Since no one at Red Hat has responded to the bug, I don't even know if the kernel is the right component to file under, or if the pcspkr module isn't supposed to load automatically anymore, in which case it would be an initscripts issue.

[jbannon]

IIRC there was some discussion about turning the PC speaker off as it seemed to annoy a lot of people. Perhaps this is the reason? At any rate at least the solution to the problem is known for those who want to turn it back on again (I find it handy for command completion).

So far as how to log the problem is concerned, it's a driver (or at least a kernel loadable module) so that puts it under kernel AFAIK. There were no other separate categories for kernel modules that I could see.