Description of problem: The PC speaker is not working. As a result, many applications behave abnormally, failing to send certain feed-back cues to the user (gnome-terminal, xchat, gaim, gdm, etc.). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.35-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fedora 2. use xchat, or gaim, or anything that runs in any text terminal 3. do anything that triggers the PC speaker Actual results: PC speaker is silent Expected results: PC speaker should beep Additional info: The bug can be fixed manually by creating the /etc/sysconfig/modules/pcspkr.modules executable with the content: #!/bin/sh /sbin/modprobe pcspkr What the distro should do: Either load the pcspkr module through some kind of system script, or compile it in the kernel (in which case this becomes a kernel bug). Please fix this bug, Fedora is unique among Linux distributions (and indeed among all operating systems) for failing to use a working PC speaker. Many applications that depend on that are affected.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160172 ***