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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* jidanni at jidanni.org [090903 09:23 +0800]
> reopen 540831
> forcemerge 540831 544496

Jidanni, in #544496 you mentioned a "ruined" sound. Can you hear
music? Do you mean that only your beep has gone? Well in that case I
propose to reanable pcspkr and reassign 540831 to linux-latest-2.6.

> thanks
> 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.

As mentioned by others in this thread you should check your sound
card for the ability to simulate a terminal beep, what most drivers
do. Mailnotification and system sounds can also be handled by your
soundcard, though. But if you use your internal speaker (maybe a
piezo one?) for all your sound, then you really need pcspkr, which
is proposed to use on embedded sytems by the kernel maintainers. Are
you using such one?

Anyway, it is not a question of Debians alsa-base. If one build
pcspkr from our alsa-source package (s)he knows what (s)he is doing.
Removing the blacklisting of pcspkr from alsa-base is consistent in
that case. Will be done next upload.

>
> I don't know the official way one should fix it.
> 
> I could tamper with some blacklist, but that is not official.

There is a note in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf.

Elimar


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