no more beeps

Rita G.

pfSense 2.5.1-RELEASE (amd64) on M4A87TD

Hi,
I recently changed motherboard and noticed I don’t get the beeps (when booted and when shutting down) that I did with last motherboard (DH67BL).
Can someone please tell me how to get my beeps back?

SteveITS

There's a setting in System/Advanced/Notifications to disable it.
Does the new board have a speaker?

Rita G.

@steveits
Hi Steve,

System/Advanced/Notifications/Sounds in GUI is enabled.

“Does the new board have a speaker?”
Yes, I bought a little mobo mini speaker on ebay and plugged it into the 2 ‘speaker’ pins on the system panel connector, but still get no beeps.

jdeloach

@rita-g said in no more beeps:

@steveits
Hi Steve,

System/Advanced/Notifications/Sounds in GUI is enabled.

“Does the new board have a speaker?”
Yes, I bought a little mobo mini speaker on ebay and plugged it into the 2 ‘speaker’ pins on the system panel connector, but still get no beeps.

Did you verify the polarity on the wires when you connected the speaker? Those speakers are polarized, usually there is a + sign marked on the speaker.

Rita G.

@jdeloach
thanks for replies,

"Did you verify the polarity on the wires when you connected the speaker? Those speakers are polarized, usually there is a + sign marked on the speaker."

Yes, that was the 1st thing I checked before coming to forum.

stephenw10

The polarity shouldn't make any difference there. More likely that board doesn't have a PC speaker in the traditional sense or it's not at the expected location.
I have occosionally looked into this over the years but never found a definitive cause or solution.

Steve

jdeloach

@stephenw10
Steve, this is typically the type device called a speaker that you hook up to a motherboard and yes they are polarized.

These really are just beepers/buzzers but they are sold as speakers.

stephenw10

They are still driven with an AC signal, you can change the tone of the beep. I'd be amased it didn't work when connected the other way. But anyway I don't believe that is the issue here, more that the device is not presented to the OS in a way that FreeBSD/pfSense can use as /dev/speaker.

Steve