oh, speaker

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 12/13/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> While I were in the process of upgrading my desktop from FC7 to FC8, I
> found that my FC ( even when it was 7 , before switch to 8 ) now uses
> the speaker to alert. For example, when I type in a wrong password, it
> would use the standard speaker to make a really *big* noise.
>
> ( By the way, this system is under VMWare ).
>
> It seems all the sound modules loaded properly :
> > [root at vm2 ~]#  lsmod | grep snd
> > snd_ens1371            23905  3
> > gameport               14665  1 snd_ens1371
> > snd_rawmidi            21185  1 snd_ens1371
> > snd_ac97_codec         92389  1 snd_ens1371
> > ac97_bus                6081  1 snd_ac97_codec
> > snd_seq_dummy           6725  0
> > snd_seq_oss            29889  0
> > snd_seq_midi_event      9793  1 snd_seq_oss
> > snd_seq                44849  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> > snd_seq_device         10061  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> > snd_pcm_oss            37569  0
> > snd_mixer_oss          16705  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm                63685  3 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_timer              20549  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> > snd                    43461  16 snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > soundcore               9633  1 snd
> > snd_page_alloc         11337  1 snd_pcm
>
>
> Any help is really appreciated. I am making noise in my office now. :(

I think you're out of luck.  This is intentional behavior now.  PC
speaker support was disabled starting in Fedora 7, since most systems
don't even include a PC speaker any longer.

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