[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#460410: no beep with snd-hda-intel

[Tim Connors]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Tim Connors wrote:

> bug 499823 is the same as 460410.
>
> It has not been resolved yet, but it looks like they are finally working
> on it upstream after more than a year:
>
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17a_v1.0.18rc1
>
> I just tried to compile and load it, but it caused an oops (perhaps there
> was interference caused by the previous installation of alsa).  I do have
> a distorted sounding beep, but will see how this goes after the next
> reboot (when the alsa 1.0.18rc3 modules will be loaded onto a freshly
> booted machine)

If you decide to compile alsa 1.0.18rc3, you need to apply this patch to
avoid oopses:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg17103.html

The beep is kinda ugly and it can't be turned down all the way (there's a
volume control, but it doesn't turn it down arbitrarily close to 0), but
it's better than having no beep at all.

-- 
TimC
Calm down, it's *only* ones and zeroes.