PC Speaker... yet again

Eli Barzilay eli at barzilay.org
Tue Nov 28 20:18:07 UTC 2006


Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> writes:

> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > I just upgraded a machine from FC2 to FC6, and I have another with
> > FC5, and on both FC6 and FC5 the speaker is no longer working.  I
> > have the modprobe pcspkr
> > 
> > in my rc.local (which, IIUC, should not be necessary on FC6 by
> > default), and I tried to manually rmmod it and modprobe it back in
> > -- nothing works.  I also tried playing around with the alsa
> > configuration, misc gui configurations and nothing gets it back
> > on.  Does anyone have an idea how to get the damn speaker working
> > again?
> 
> In FC6, open the Volume Control. Go to the Switches tab and make
> sure that the "External Amplifier" checkbox is checked.
> 
> If the "External Amplifier" box is not present, go to Edit, then
> Preferences, scroll down to the bottom and check "External
> Amplifier" there. Then it should show on the Switches tab.

No, that still doesn't make it work.

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