Re: PC speaker beeps in 2.6.30?

From: Michael Tokarev
Date: Mon Jun 15 2009 - 14:23:06 EST


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For me the system beep has been replaced by a beep in ALSA with .30.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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