[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#570618: Bug#570618: alsa-source: PC speaker not working correctly on HDA Intel card with an Intel G45 DEVCTG chip

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Hi Sebastien,

* Sebastien Hinderer [100220 10:26 +0100]
> 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.

I am running snd-hda-itel on a tp t61p. What the hell is an ugly beep? For me
it is just a beep....

Well the beep can be controlled by the Beep mixer control.

What tells
# amixer | grep -A4 Beep

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

AFAIK the frequency of the beep doesn't vary.

There is a kernelmodul which can be enabled by commenting
blacklist snd-pcsp
to
# blacklist snd-pcsp
in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf
Please don*t ask how this works ;-) AFAIK it uses the internal PC speaker.

Elimar

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