Bug 138870 – pcspkr doesn't work with kernel 2.6.17

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Brian Beardall 2006-07-02 08:59:38 UTC]

With the latest kernel 2.6.17 the pcspkr stopped working my my AMD64 computer. It behaves like the driver isn't fully registering. I've tested on two mainboards with the same result of no beeps coming from the internel speaker. The driver is loaded, but doesn't seem to work anymore. This is my emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.1_pre1-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa apache2 asf avi beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt cups curl dba dbus dri dts dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gif gimp glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java joystick jpeg kqemu lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate lzw lzw-tiff mad mhash mng mono mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl plotutils png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdl session slang snmp spamassassin speex spell spl ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 xine xml xml2 xorg xpm xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_joystick kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_ati"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-07-04 07:05:35 UTC]

Please attach kernel .config

[Comment 2 Brian Beardall 2006-07-04 08:07:33 UTC]

Created attachment 90856 [details]
My gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r1 .config

[Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-07-04 08:34:24 UTC]

This patch should fix it (see URL field)

[Comment 4 Brian Beardall 2006-07-04 08:56:39 UTC]

Resolved with patch.

[Comment 5 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-07-04 10:09:09 UTC]

Thanks for testing, but we aren't done here. Need to ship it in a release :)

[Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-07-10 07:35:48 UTC]

This is fixed in gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r2