On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:09:26PM +0200, Kurt J. Bosch wrote: > On 2009-06-28 10:38, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:39:08 -0700, > > Paul Vojta wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 09:36:42AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >>> At Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:03:54 +0400, > >>> Michael Tokarev wrote: > >>>> > >>>> [Adding some more Cc's...] > >>>> > >>>> 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, and I > >>>> can hear ugly and scary beeps from my stereo speakers > >>>> (when they're turned on and when the control is un-muted). > >>>> But that's.. not a solution/answer to the original > >>>> question... ;) > >>> > >>> Try 2.6.31-rc1. There was a fix regarding beep frequency. > >> > >> Not necessarily. Based on the OP's original post, as well as his mails > >> to the LKML (Google the subject line to find them), he has a desktop > >> system with external powered speakers connected to a sound card, and also > >> a small PC speaker inside the system case. He wants to hear the beeps > >> coming out of the small speaker, since the external speakers (and/or sound > >> card) are not always turned on. > > > > To avoid someone misunderstanding: the beep routed through HD-audio > > can also go to the built-in speaker. It's just mixed up with the > > normal audio output, and the volume is controlled via ALSA mixer > > volume element. > > > > But, once after it's hooked up to the codec, the beep can't be output > > separately to the speaker. It's always with other audio signal to the > > same output target. > > > > Or, on some systems (mostly laptops), the beep is hooked up to the > > codec automatically no matter whether you set > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP once when the codec chip is initialized. > > So, the behavior depends pretty much on the hardware implementation. > > > I face the same problem as the OP since kernel 2.6.30 on ArchLinux on > a desktop machine. I was able to get beep working through the built in > speaker again by doing a 'modprobe -r pcspkr' followed by a > 'modprobe pcspkr' after sysinit. It seems there is some kind of > struggle goinig on here between alsa and pcspkr. Isn't there any > kernel line or modules configuration option to disable the alsa pc-beep? Hm... apparently not. Probably there should be a module option for this, though. --Paul Vojta, vojta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
