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

[Tim Connors]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> * Tim Connors [081022 11:30 +0200]
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Tim Connors wrote:
> [...]
> > 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
>
> Thanks for the hint, but 1.0.18 will be released soon, soI decided
> not to package 1.0.18rc3 ;)

Yep - just giving you a headsup.  I was hoping it would be ready for
Lenny, but that's probably a long shot.

> > 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.
>
> Did you tried snd-pcsp ?

I think that's trying to solve a different problem, isn't it?  I was under
the impression that snd-pcsp was a module for simulating a soundcard using
the beeper speaker.  It would indeed sound quite ugly.

But this particular patch allows us to use the soundcard normally, with
the beeper speaker routed through it - a common functionality on laptops
that used to just work before snd-hda-intel came into common use.

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TimC
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