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Heikete

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Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 40

Can't enable pc speaker [SOLVED]

I can't get my pc speaker to work. I have laptop asus M51T with REALTEK ALC 663.
Sound works OK with this line in /etc/modprobe.d/sound:

options snd-hda-intel model=m51va

except of pc speaker which is of high importance to me.
I don't have pcspkr controll in alsamixer, so I modprobed pcspkr (It hadn't been autoloaded) - no effect
I tried to search the internet for solution but I only found a page with patch to digitally create the sound, but I don't know
where to apply this patch.
Maybe there's some option to add and I don't know it?
And maybe the problem is still unsolved yet for snd-hda-intel?
Is it a matter of alsa, kernel or something else?
The most obstacle I come across in searching the net is large amount of messages from people who want to disable the pcspeaker.

Last edited by Heikete (2009-08-29 12:09:18)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Can't enable pc speaker [SOLVED]

Do you mean the speaker that goes "beep" sometimes like when you 'echo -e "\a"'?
Add 'snd_pcsp' and 'pcspkr' to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf.

What do you need it for - console or X?

Last edited by karol (2009-05-31 11:02:04)

ebal

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 224

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Re: Can't enable pc speaker [SOLVED]

try

alsaconf

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Heikete

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Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 40

Re: Can't enable pc speaker [SOLVED]

Problem solved after kernel upgrade.