[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#540831: blacklisting pcspkr ruins beep(1), and icewm' mail beep

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:23:25AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Blacklisting pcspkr ruins beep(1), and icewm' mail beep, and probably
> other programs.
> 
> There should perhaps be a whiptail question saying what is being ruined
> and what to do about it.
> 
> I don't know the official way one should fix it.
> 
> I could tamper with some blacklist, but that is not official.

This primarily seems like a bug in whatever alsa driver you use, for not
taking over the function of the console beep (and thus routing it
through the normal sound card, which allows muting, volume control, and
various other niceties that pcspkr doesn't).

If you don't use an alsa driver, then uninstall alsa-base and the
blacklist of pcspkr will go away.

And if you want to keep alsa-base installed and still have pcspkr, just
edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf and comment the "blacklist
pcspkr" line.

- Josh Triplett