A1SRi-2758f - no beep?

[robi]

There's a nice beep script in pfSense which plays on the speaker when bootup is complete. Also there's a beep when somebody logs in the webgui.

But not on Supermicro A1SRi-2758f! This board is muted…
It does have an onboard speaker which works because it beeps at bios POST. But there's no beep coming out of pfSense.

I double-checked, the "Disable the startup/shutdown beep" in System: Advanced: Notifications is NOT ckecked.

[Sir Loin]

I didn't pfsense has such feature.  I never heard any sound after the BIOS boot beeps.  It would be nice to get this to work.

[robi]

Oh yes it does have the beep feature for years!
I keep my fingers crossed that the beep will be looked at on A1SRi-2758f, since this also powers the biggest rack unit from pfSense Store.

[ptt]

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?action=search

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86424.msg517097#msg517097

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=87643.msg500981#msg500981

[tha_toadman]

I just got new hardware as well and I too am not hearing any start up and shut down beeps. I do not have the box checked to disable the sounds. Any ideas?

[Guest]

Any ideas?

Got to the BIOS and activate the POST, so during the boot phase the BIOS will doing a Power on self test
and you will hear the beep. Because this is done before any kind of OS is starting, pfsense could not involved
in this process as well.

[robi]

This is NOT about POST beeps, but the sound pfSense plays through the speaker after it finishes booting up, and before halting/restarting when issued by the administrator. This tune is not played by Supermicro boards for some reason.
It's also not played by the HP t5730 Thin Clients I also have running pfSense on, but strangely I was not able to get Linux to make any sound using the "beep" command either.