On a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 the pc speaker is blacklisted by default. 2010/1/25 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>: > On Sun, 24.01.10 13:12, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > Heya, > >> Someone asked recently about the Beep mixer in alsa. With a PA enabled >> setup, controlling the Beep volume (when this is exposed via alsa) >> becomes awkward. >> >> What is the best way to handle this? Could we tie it/slave it from the >> master volume via the alsa mixer profile stuff perhaps? > > The PC speaker is something that needs to go away. I have no plans > covering that in PA. I have no problem pissing those people off who > think this relict from 1981 still matters in 2010. Generate proper > event sounds, folks. Really. 29 years of horrible beep sounds should > be enough. libcanberra is trivial to use and integral part of every > distribution that could matter. Use it and forget about PC speakers. > > That said I do have plans in covering non-PCM hardware-mixed streams > eventually as some kind of fake sink input that is transparently added > by the alsa backend. That sink input would not add in any PCM audio > but still be around for volume control and whatever else might > matter. That way in pavucontrol you'd have one slider for each app > stream and one for input feedback from "Line-In" or so. This might > also become handy for mobile phone folks, who have audio streams that > bypass PA in some and want this nicely covered in the volume > control. This way this all could appear transparently for the client > applications and integrate well with flat volumes. And later on, when > we get proper jack sensing we could even have have those fake streams > appear and disappear based on jack status. > > Of course, which mixer controls would be exposed as fake streams would > be configurable via the mixer path stuff. By default we'd probably > list only "Line-In" there, but if people have a fetish for nightmarish > and hearing-loss-inducing beep sounds they could add further controls > such as the PC speaker there. > > But for now, alsamixer -c0 is your only friend if you are this crazy. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ ? ? ? ? ? GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. " - Calven
