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From: Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:28:39
Message-Id: D5FCB7E1-7C17-491F-B877-F9AF35E0913B@iki.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Mar 23, 2014, at 5:13, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Am 23.03.2014 00:45, schrieb null_ptr:
4 >> On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
5 >>> Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr:
6 >>>> On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote:
7 >>>>> I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such,
8 >>>>> but it
9 >>>>> prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available & load
10 >>>>> it.
11 >>>>> On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, "Dat G" <rhannek@×××.de> wrote:
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>>> On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote:
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:
16 >>>>>>>
17 >>>>>>>> Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is
18 >>>>>>>> activated
19 >>>>>>>> in kernel config. Am I missing something else?
20 >>>>>>>>
21 >>>>>>>
22 >>>>>>> Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.
23 >>>>>>>
24 >>>>>> I tried building with that and it didn't fix it.
25 >>>>
26 >>>> "modprobe pcspkr" doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also
27 >>>> tried
28 >>>> building it in the kernel.
29 >>>>
30 >>>> On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be
31 >>>> doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on
32 >>>> the mainboard and instead beeps through the regular sound device. At
33 >>>> least on 3.10.25 I had not build the pcspkr module and the system
34 >>>> beeped
35 >>>> happily.
36 >>>>
37 >>>>
38 >>>
39 >>> Now, are we talking about the motherboard beeping through a little
40 >>> builtin speaker that does not work
41 >>> or
42 >>> Are we talking about your onboard sound not beeping in your
43 >>> headphones/your attached speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'?
44 >>>
45 >>> Either way, I don't see any problem at all. A non-beeping computer is a
46 >>> correctly working one.
47 >>
48 >> I'm talking about the onboard sound not beeping in the attached
49 >> headphones/speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'. The problem is
50 >> that I used that for some events as a status (e.g. battery running low)
51 >> and I like the annoying nature of the beep for these events.
52 >>
53 >>
54 >
55 > so it is not a 'speaker' problem but a sound card problem. You should
56 > have stated that from the beginning.
57 >
58 > Probably something muted that should not be muted.
59 >
60
61 Check that you can play sounds from different sources to see that there is no process blocking your alsa driver.
62
63 If there is a program that is blocking alsa you can find out which process it is by: fuser -v /dev/snd/*