Sirgazil, Florian,

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 06:52:39AM -0500, sirgazil wrote:
>> Florian, for some reason, the speakers worked today. I'm not 
>> sure if running alsamixer yesterday after your instructions had 
>> anything to do with it or booting without the headphones 
>> plugged. Those are the only different things (related to sound) 
>> that I've done before starting the machine today. GNOME even 
>> displays some information when I plug the headphones. It didn't 
>> do this before.
>>
>
> On my father’s PC booting with or without audio 3.5mm plug 
> headphones
> makes a difference.
>
>
>> One thing I noticed when booting is an error that says 
>> something like this:
>> 
>>    Error: "pcspkr" is already registered, aborting.
>> 
>
> I see this too.
>
>> I wonder if that is related. Although the speakers worked 
>> anyways.

This is the driver for the vestigial ‘PC speaker’ that mainly[0] 
beeps and is completely missing on some modern systems, it (rather 
misleadingly) has nothing to do with speakers as you intend to 
enjoy them.


Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: https://www.tobias.gr/monkeez.mp4