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

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:29:21 +0400
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PC speaker beeps in 2.6.30?

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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