no console bell

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i've got this laptop running great, but i haven't been able to get a 
console bell working on it. in the BIOS setup i can get a really loud beep 
from the mobo speaker (so i know it's there and working), but otherwise i 
can't get any sound from it. for a while i had 'device speaker' in the 
kernel and it produced a /dev/speaker with no complaints, but i couldn't 
get any sound out of it.

not encouraging, but i booted up with ubuntu 7.04 i386 (live cd) and still 
couldn't get the console bell to beep.

one theory is that the BIOS disables the speaker before booting. another 
theory is that freebsd (and ubuntu)  just aren't finding the speaker.

any ways to execute a shell script (mpg123) instead of the console bell? i 
can do that in mrxvt (bellCommand) but it only works if mrxvt rings the 
bell.

any other ideas?

thanks....


system:
  FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE amd64
  Acer Aspire 5100 - V2.70

kenv stuff:

acpi_load="YES"
hint.acpi.0.oem="ACRSYS"
hint.acpi.0.revision="1"
hint.acpi.0.rsdt="0x37e91b46"
smbios.bios.reldate="12/07/2006"
smbios.bios.vendor="Acer"
smbios.bios.version="V2.70"
smbios.chassis.maker="Acer"
smbios.chassis.serial="xxx          "
smbios.chassis.tag="                                "
smbios.chassis.version="N/A"
smbios.planar.maker="Acer"
smbios.planar.product="Navarro"
smbios.planar.serial="xxx"
smbios.planar.version="N/A"
smbios.socket.enabled="1"
smbios.socket.populated="1"
smbios.system.maker="Acer            "
smbios.system.product="Aspire 5100     "
smbios.system.serial="xxx"
smbios.system.uuid="xxx"
smbios.system.version="V2.70"


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