[Pkg-alsa-devel] linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686: pcspkr sometimes breaks audio

[Jonathan Nieder]

Andres Salomon wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Ways forward:
>> 
>>  - libasound2 could use "Suggests: alsa-base".  (Recommends would be
>>    too strong because alsa-base has nontrivial dependencies itself and
>>    it is not too unusual to use binaries linked to the ALSA libs on a
>>    system that doesn't need sound support.)
>> 
>>  - Should /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf be shipped in udev instead of
>>    alsa-base?
>> 
>>  - Is there any long-term path away from (1)?
>> 
>> Thanks, and sorry for the long quiet.
>> Jonathan
>
> Note that I no longer have the hardware that was described in the bug
> report, and I don't actually recall what the problem was anymore..

I don't think it is hardware-specific.  A system without
alsa-base.conf in /etc/modprobe/ (i.e., a system with alsa-base purged
or never installed) can easily end up with the PC speaker as card 0,
so sound produced by various apps on such a bare-bones system would go
to the PC speaker instead of the sound card and sound tinny.