[Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa-source: PC speaker not working correctly on HDA Intel card with an Intel G45 DEVCTG chip

[Sebastien Hinderer]

Package: alsa-source
Severity: important

The sound card of my laptop is a HDA Intel, chip Intel G45 DEVCTG
The PC beeps do not work correctly.
With older kernels it was just that the frequency of the beeps was not
correct and that the volume could not be configured; with 2.6.32 the console
bell is just a very ugly sound.

This is important for me because, as a blind user, I make heavy use of
console beeps of varous frequencies to report various events.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash