No console beep - hp elite 8300
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Hi. I am moving my config over from a Dell dimension 8100 to an hp elite 8300 sff. This allow is a substantial power savings.
I have run pfsense on a few diffent machines over the years and the hp elite 8300 doesn't seem to use the pc speaker bells out of all of them.I have checked the following.
- Pcspeaker enabled in bios
- I hear a beep when I run spinrite on the drive
- I have checked the bell options are set to 1 in sysctl
- I have run spkrtest. No sounds are played.
- I checked the pc speaker volume is set to 74 with the mixer command.
Is there a kernel module that needs to be swapped? I have little background with bsd.
Thanks
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If a standard PC speaker exists it may be at a non-standard IO location.
Can you try booting Linux and test there? There may be a clue in the boot messages there or in FreeBSD.
It's something I have occasionally looked into over the years as quite a few systems seem to have a speaker but don't respond. It feels like there should just be a loader variable to set the correct location but I have never found anything like that.Steve
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Would it be in dmsg? In pfsense, freebsd or Linux?
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So, I installed freebsd 12.2 on a clean disk. I installed beep and spkrtest. I had do do some setup.
I did the steps in the image and still no speaker. How should I go about finding the speaker at a different address?
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Can't really help you there. As I said I never got this working. It just seems like it's probably something simple every time I've hit it.
Can you boot Linux to test there?Steve
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I will Debian a test and report back.
