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?
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.
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?).