Comment 30 for bug 486154

Some more clarification:

1. Starting from ubuntu version 9.10 the system beep has been replaced
from a sound coming from the sound card.
2. If you load the module pcspkr you can ear a sound coming from the pc
speaker but the system don't use it (only at the shut down or with the
beep command)
3. If you load the module snd_pcsp you can ear a beep coming from the
suond card but the system don't use it (only at the shut down or with
the beep command)
4. In my case the sound coming from the sound card was missing (point 1)
and it works only if you disable compiz so I have to understand why
compiz stops that sound.

Any suggestion?

Grondr ha scritto:
> Robert: Thanks for the summary. I'm going to prepare a little table
> for the studio audience to try to make things clearer, especially since
> you correctly pointed out in comment #27 that there's ambiguity over
> whether I'm talking about bell.ogg or the squarewave beep coming out of
> line-out (whoops). I can probably get to that within the next 24 hours;
> if not, it'll happen maybe Sunday sometime. The idea is to summarize
> the motherboard & line-out behavior with and without the rmmod/modprobe
> fandango in an X-less console, in bare X (xinit), and in gnome/metacity.
> (I'm not going to try compiz unless someone thinks it's necessary; if I
> did that, I'd do it from a LiveCD to avoid potentially side-effecting my
> current Karmic install.)
>
> Re the rmmod/modprobe fandango: I'm not the only person who needs to do
> this. In fact, it would never have occurred to me that it would even
> change the behavior if I hadn't seen it mentioned in bug #398161 (see
> comments #1 and #2 in this thread, where Philip asked if I'd tried that
> workaround). So it's clearly not just me. However, I hadn't realized
> you were testing on a laptop. I think that to really disentangle
> things, testers need to try this on a desktop, where you can tell
> absolutely where the sound is coming from, given that laptops seem to
> route what I'd call line-out directly to their onboard speaker unless
> you've got something plugged into the line-out connector---that muddies
> the water. On a desktop, my motherboard speaker is independent of
> whether I've got anything cabled into line-out, so I can differentiate
> conditions that I think you can't.
>
> On a larger note, this might be a problem with Ubuntu in general on this
> issue---if most of the developers working on these subsystems do their
> work on laptops, they may not see the issue! Or at least, not all of
> it.
>
> More tomorrow.
>
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