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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

unmerge 540831
reassign 540831 linux-latest-2.6
tags 544496 + pending
thx


* Elimar Riesebieter [090903 12:30 +0200]
> * 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.

#544496 will be fixed in 1.0.21 upload.

Elimar


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