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

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:49:24 -0800, Florin Andrei
<florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Please see this bug report:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123927
> 
> Essentially, the PC speaker has been disabled long time ago and it does
> not work by default on Fedora. Some applications actually require the PC
> speaker in order to provide full functionality - like X-Chat beeping on
> certain messages.
> 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.
> 
> However, it needs to get a real solution, not just a workaround. If you
> feel the same, please add your comments to the bug report mentioned
> above.
> 
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> Florin Andrei
> 
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And I'm glad that it is! I always hated those stupud beeps. But I
didn't really notice it's absence in FC3, maybe because I cut the wire
to the PC speaker about four operating systems ago...

Dotan Cohen
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