linux-kernel - Re: PC speaker beeps in 2.6.30?

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Message-ID: <4A36917D.5090305@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:22:53 +0400
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Ken Witherow <ken@...tech.com>
CC:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PC speaker beeps in 2.6.30?

Ken Witherow wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
>> For me the system beep has been replaced by a beep in ALSA with .30.
>>
>> Do you have soundcard that uses HDA? Is CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP set?
>> Does alsamixer show a "beep" control? Is that not muted and does it have
>> volume set?
> 
> I had this exact same problem. I ran make oldconfig and was never 
> prompted for the new HDA config options. I could be wrong, but I can't 
> remember make oldconfig behaving this way in the past (or maybe it 
> resulted in changes that didn't have any noticeable effect). Having to 
> reconfigure the kernel over not being prompted for a new config option 
> which changed established behavior was annoying to say the least.

As I noted in my other email, this option (CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP)
is not new, it is present in 2.6.29 too.  So it's a behavor change which
is not "backed up" by a config option -- there's no option to prompt
for.

/mjt
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