[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#495674: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

> There seems to be an assumption here that this issue should be
> resolved by a blacklist in alsa-base... but what about systems w/o
> alsa-base? Servers that have no use for sound are also reporting this
> potentially frightening (albeit benign) error message, but are
> unlikely to have the alsa-base package installed.
Like mine, 2.6.29-1-686, which only has
$ dpkg -l|egrep alsa\|sound|tr -s ' '
ii esound-common 0.2.41-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files
ii libasound2 1.0.19-1 shared library for ALSA applications

So I had to do it myself.
# tail -n 2 /etc/modprobe.d/jidanni.conf
#? 366342 495674 494104 ...?
blacklist snd-pcsp

Fortunately the tiny speaker still works and I now don't get the
warning. Guessing this bug should be reopened...