Computer beeps relentlessly on startup (internal speaker)

[Kim Lindgren]

This goes for Intrepid Beta (and earlier).

Whenever I boot my system the internal speaker will start beeping (after the message: "Kernel is really alive"), constantly, using the internal speaker, until X starts (sometimes it never stops, so the computer has to be rebooted. It also beeps when the computer is shutting down). I get a "VBA"-Error-message, and no splash-screen.

Now I have had to take refuge in OpenSuSE (Ubuntu is no more on my harddrive, but I miss it dearly).

At first I thought this was a bug caused by the dist-upgrade I did ("some missmatched config files perhaps?" I though), but when I boot using the Intrepid install CD, the bug appears there as well, and the installer is actually incapable of starting up properly (outputs "VBA Error" again and again...).

This bug appears in both the 64 and 32-bit versions of Intrepid, but it never happened in Hardy, or any earlier releases of Ubuntu.

[Robert Rittenhouse (rrittenhouse)]

Thank you for the bug report. Can you provide us with more information about the hardware that is involved in this issue? This will help me try to determine how and where to file this bug.

Thank you!

[Kim Lindgren (mrkimm-gmail)]

I'm not sure what is doing it really.

My computer is a Dual-Core Athlon64, at 3.0 Ghz. With 2 GB RAM. The graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce FX8600 GT.

Not sure how to get more info than that, is there a command I can run to get more detailed hardware info? I googled it, but I was unable to find one.

[Robert Rittenhouse (rrittenhouse)]

First, You should try and run the latest Intrepid-daily and see if your problem has been solved. If you are still having problems please run the following commands and upload the files to this launchpad bug page.

Run:
lspci -vvnn > lspci.txt
lsusb -V > lsusb.txt
dmesg > dmesg.txt

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

[Kim Lindgren (mrkimm-gmail)]

Well, the Live-CD wount boot, so I cant run those commands in ubuntu. Hopefully the openSUSE generated ones will work

[Kim Lindgren (mrkimm-gmail)]

Hmmm... I reverted back to Intrepid after all, since YaST is _clearly_ inferior to ubuntus package manager.

The problem seems fixed now... though I'm not sure I can call this a clean install (kind of a Linux Mint Elyssa x Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex hybrid, since I began by installing Linux mint, and then upgraded that to Intrepid).

However usplash doesn't seem to be working anymore... oh well, as long as it doesn't start beeping again...

[Robert Rittenhouse (rrittenhouse)]

Well thats strange. If the beeping starts again, don't hesitate to submit another bug report.

Thank you

[electhor (electhor)]

I have exactly the same thing happening on 9.04 alpha 3. It is intermittent, probably happens about 50% of the time. Contact me if you want any further information. However mine does not stop when xstarts. On shutdown, have to foa hard shutdown as it hangs and shutdown process stops.

[Sene (elias-sajo)]

I had the same issue with Jaunty before but then removing the module helped.

Today when booting the same issue came up and continued when x was fully loaded and even after removing the module so I had to shut down ubuntu.

I will try to remove the splash and see how it goes.