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  • My BackSpace Beep is Gone?

    From Chime Hart@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 25, 2026 05:40:01
    Hi All: Today I went from a Zabbly 6.18.4 to 6.18.7 but not only is my DecTalk
    in Speakup not finding a module, but my backspace beep is gone. Before there were pcspkr along with setterm where I could set the frequency to 1750 and length to 200. Anyway, running "beep" says cannot open device. Can any1 please suggest how to resume my quite helpful backspace beep. Thanks so much in advance
    Chime

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  • From Svetlana Tkachenko@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 25, 2026 18:30:01
    Hi Chime Hart

    This is a new platform for me. What does "cat /etc/*release*" say?

    Does "sudo modprobe pcspkr" make beep work? Note that this will not persist after restart. I just would like to know whether it works.

    Thanks.

    Sveta

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  • From Chime Hart@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 25, 2026 18:50:01
    Well, Svetlana: Here are the 8lines, including both commands. PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid"
    NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
    VERSION_CODENAME=forky
    ID=debian
    HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
    SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
    modprobe: FATAL: Module pcspkr not found in directory /lib/modules/6.18.7-zabbly+
    Back again live Supposedly pcspkr was changed? Thanks for your guidance
    Chime

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  • From Greg Wooledge@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 25, 2026 19:20:01
    On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 09:44:46 -0800, Chime Hart wrote:
    modprobe: FATAL: Module pcspkr not found in directory /lib/modules/6.18.7-zabbly+
    Back again live Supposedly pcspkr was changed? Thanks for your guidance

    I'm unclear on what "zabbly" is, but this is not a standard Debian kernel.

    A web search for zabbly seems to indicate that these are third party
    kernels provided for users of Debian and Debian-based distributions.
    If that's correct, then you'll need to contact zabbly about this issue.
    Maybe they provide the missing modules in an optional package or
    something like that.

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  • From Chime Hart@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 25, 2026 19:20:01
    Hi Greg: Thanks, will write them. I should explain why I originally wanted Zabbly. I was hoping for a way of actually upgrading kernels in a running system, `without rebooting. I saw a reference about this involving Zabbly. Chime

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  • From Dan Ritter@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 25, 2026 20:00:01
    Chime Hart wrote:
    Hi Greg: Thanks, will write them. I should explain why I originally wanted Zabbly. I was hoping for a way of actually upgrading kernels in a running system, `without rebooting. I saw a reference about this involving Zabbly.


    You are probably thinking about KSplice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice which was supplanted by livepatching, which is not yet available
    in Debian:

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1070494


    -dsr-

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