No Startup/Shutdown Notification Sound

[pholt]

I don't get this at all. I have an OPNsense machine at one location that plays the startup and shutdown sounds. I have an identical machine configured the same way at another location and no sound. Sound is enabled in the BIOS in both cases. No changes to settings make a difference. Executing commands from the shell? Still no sound. I even switched the machine (moving the disk). Still no sound.

What's going on? How do I fix this?

[Captain Awesome]

Hopefully, you haven't disabled "Startup/Shutdown Sound" at the bottom of "System: Settings: Miscellaneous"

[pholt]

Haha. No.

But I checked anyway.

No.

[franco]

Speaker broken? On some systems people said it's maybe too quiet to be audible for unknown reasons.


Cheers,
Franco

[pholt]

Speaker is fine. This is a replacement machine, too. In the previous one, I replaced the speaker, and still no sound. I replaced the whole machine with an identical one (for different reasons), and moved the disk/network card over, so it's essentially the same system as before. Still no sound.

I know the speaker's good because it works during BIOS updates. I'm betting this is one of those mysteries that will have me slapping my forehead later, but I've gone through all the troubleshooting steps I can think of. Since it's now a completely new machine but the same software image, I'm suspecting some kind of corruption? A fresh install might do the trick, but I'd like to avoid that complication.

t's not a critical function, but I like that the machine lets you know what it's up to during startup and shutdown.

[dmelczer]

I can confirm that I do not have sound on my installation either.  I've checked the usual suspects.  Glad to know I'm not the only one, although I never posted about this because I never thought it important.

[jasonyzs]

I am changing to a new hardware, and I have the same issue. When the machine boots, I can hear the system beep.

Not sure if the following can provide any clue. Doesn't mean anything to me yet...

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[font=courier][font=courier]root@mygw001:~ # /usr/local/bin/beep
root@mygw001:~ # /usr/bin/beep
beep: Failed to open '/dev/dsp'
root@mygw001:~ # /usr/bin/beep -d /dev/speaker
beep: ioctl SOUND_PCM_WRITE_CHANNELS(1) failed
root@mygw001:~ # [/font][/font]