did you notice that the PC speaker does not work on Fedora?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:49 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>
>> There is a fairly simple workaround, just run this command once:
>> "/sbin/modprobe pcspkr" then add the same command to the end
>> of /etc/rc.d/rc.local to make the change permanent across reboots.
>
> Actually, if you know for a fact that you don't have an /etc/rc.modules
> and nothing ever will create that file on your system, it's probably
> better to do this:
>
> echo \#\!/bin/sh > /etc/rc.modules
> echo "/sbin/modprobe pcspkr" >> /etc/rc.modules
> chmod +x /etc/rc.modules
>
> rc.modules, if exists, is called by rc.sysinit
> It seems like a better idea to load up the module early in the boot
> chain.

Actually, if /etc/rc.modules does exist, just add the modprobe command to 
it.  Also, if any package replaces an existing /etc/rc.modules instead of 
appending lines to it, that package is broken.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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