Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.18-1.2189.fc5

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Sep 26 17:39:18 UTC 2006


On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:40:12AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
 > I've installed kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2189.fc5 in a Dell Latitude D820.
 > System starts up fine and I was able to build kernel modules for
 > nvidia and ipw3945 (after patching version 1.0.12 as recommended in
 > their development mailing list).  So it runs!
 > 
 > Why the heck does it beep so much?  Now I get audible beeps when gdm
 > starts, all usage of tab. Inside X, I can "xset b off" to make it
 > stop, but how to stop in general?

rmmod pcspkr :-)
 
 > Suspend does not work.  g-p-m simply says "suspend failed" and I can't
 > see why.   Running /usr/sbin/pm-suspend in the terminal does not give
 > any errors.

Check dmesg for any kernel related errors.

	Dave




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