[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]

* Sebastien Hinderer [100220 23:00 +0100]
> Hi Elimar,
> 
> > For me:
> > Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
> >   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
> >   Playback channels: Mono
> >   Limits: Playback 0 - 15
> >   Mono: Playback 15 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
> 
> So it seems it can take more values on your system, but perhaps you
> don't have the same chipset and the difference comes from this ?

Sure.

> > Could  you please disable pcspkr and test the beep by controlling via the
> > mixer?
> 
> I blacklisted the module (added a line
> blacklist pcspkr
> to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf) and restarted the computer.
> After restarting, two things that I can't understand happened:
> 
> 1. The pcspkr module still appeared in lsmod

For testing you can just modprobe -r pcspkr. Blacklisting isn't
needed yet


> 2. Although pcspkr was listed, the computer doesn't beep anymore,
> independently of the value of the Beep simple control in alsamixer (the
> control stillhas four values).
>
> Did I do the right thing or did you mean something else by "disable" ?

Remove the blacklist entry, reboot and just modprobe -r pcspkr.
rmmod pcspkr unloads the same way,

Elimar

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