Configuring a kernel with Sound support with either
OSS or ALSA, I still get nothing from my PC speaker.
Works fine under 2.4.18.
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:58:25AM -0500, Steve Dover wrote:
> Configuring a kernel with Sound support with either
> OSS or ALSA, I still get nothing from my PC speaker.
> Works fine under 2.4.18.
Look under all the submenus in the Input section of
"menuconfig" for the speaker entry and enable it.
There's a good technical reason why the speaker is an input
device, but hiding it in the menus is *bad*.
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:08:57AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> > Configuring a kernel with Sound support with either
> > OSS or ALSA, I still get nothing from my PC speaker.
> > Works fine under 2.4.18.
>
> Look under all the submenus in the Input section of
> "menuconfig" for the speaker entry and enable it.
>
> There's a good technical reason why the speaker is an input
> device, but hiding it in the menus is *bad*.
Send me a patch that fixes this - if you know how.
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whats the technical reason.
Cheers, Dean.
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:08:57 -0400 [email protected] (Joseph Fannin) wrote:
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:08:57AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>...
> > There's a good technical reason why the speaker is an input
> > device, but hiding it in the menus is *bad*.
>
> Send me a patch that fixes this - if you know how.
IMHO the problem istn't to make a patch, it's more a "policy" question:
The problem is that from the point of view of a _user_ it's quite
surprising to see the speaker support at the input devices - and if the
speaker doesn't work you wouldn't search for an option under "Input device
support". From a programmers point of view "Input device support" might be
the best place but it will produce much confusion among many users. Is it
perhaps possible to move the speaker support to "Character devices"?
TIA
Adrian
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Is it
> perhaps possible to move the speaker support to "Character devices"?
Or how about putting it under "Sound"? Seems logical to me.
Chris
On Monday 07 October 2002 12:58 pm, Steve Dover wrote:
> Configuring a kernel with Sound support with either
> OSS or ALSA, I still get nothing from my PC speaker.
> Works fine under 2.4.18.
make menuconfig
input_device_support->misc->pc_speaker_support.
Switch it on.
Rob
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:14:27PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:08:57AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>
> > > Configuring a kernel with Sound support with either
> > > OSS or ALSA, I still get nothing from my PC speaker.
> > > Works fine under 2.4.18.
> >
> > Look under all the submenus in the Input section of
> > "menuconfig" for the speaker entry and enable it.
> >
> > There's a good technical reason why the speaker is an input
> > device, but hiding it in the menus is *bad*.
>
> Send me a patch that fixes this - if you know how.
Okay, find the attached patch against 2.5.40 which creates a new
"PC Speaker" submenu -- it's clearly labeled, and higher up on the
screen when running `make menuconfig`.
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:14:27PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:08:57AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>
> > > Configuring a kernel with Sound support with either
> > > OSS or ALSA, I still get nothing from my PC speaker.
> > > Works fine under 2.4.18.
> >
> > Look under all the submenus in the Input section of
> > "menuconfig" for the speaker entry and enable it.
> >
> > There's a good technical reason why the speaker is an input
> > device, but hiding it in the menus is *bad*.
>
> Send me a patch that fixes this - if you know how.
Resend of this little patch -- vger didn't like the last one, I
think. This creates a new "PC Speaker" submenu -- it's clearly
marked and higher up on the "make menuconfig" screen rather than
hidden away under "misc".
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