Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:29:21 +0400 | From | Michael Tokarev <> | Subject | Re: PC speaker beeps in 2.6.30? |
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Frans Pop wrote: > Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Am I the only concerned about this? My 2.6.30 is still >> silent w.r.t. old good PC speaker beeps, and I wasn't >> able to make it to produce any sound. Yes, as pointed >> out by others there is a control now, in alsa, > > Did you actually try compiling a kernel without CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP > set? If you do, does your PC speaker work again?
Yes it works. Even with CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP set, but without the module loaded. See all the details at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13651
> If it does work again, I don't think there is a bug, at least not in the > fact that the old PC speaker beep no longer works: if you have a HDA > soundcard in the system _and_ the driver is loaded _and_ > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is set, then it seems logical to me that that > takes over system beeps. > The fact that the config option also existed in 2.6.29 but did not work > the same seems a minor issue to me.
Original issue was that I didn't know what to do.
[] > If it really does sound bad, maybe the ALSA developers could look into > that, but you will have to describe it better (or maybe make a > recording?).
There was another, unrelated bug, fixed for 2.6.31-tobe.
/mjt
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