internal speaker beep gone after Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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alsa-driver (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Immediately after the Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade (done 11 November, 2009) the system beep would no longer occur (e.g. in an xterm for inappropriate command line input, nor when the beep utility is used). The system beep was working as expected immediately prior to the upgrade.
A search of tech notices seemed to suggest that the system beep is controlled by the pcspkr module and could be suppressed by entering this module name in the /etc/modprobe.
The host platform is Intel Core i7 on a Gigabyte EX-58-UD5 main board. The pcspkr is identified at boot time (from dmesg) -
[ 9.740168] input: PC Speaker as /devices/
- as is the on-board Intel HDA audio -
[ 16.299763] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 16.299795] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 16.489256] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC889A, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
[ 16.489423] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/
Advice for re-enabling the system beep on the internal speaker would be appreciated.
affects: | ubuntu → alsa-driver (Ubuntu) |
Castalia, if I remember correctly, the system-beeps were muted in Karmic to deal with the reactivation of some feature in the latest kernel. For whatever reason, I can not remember, but that kernel code caused the system to beep quite a bit and so it was muted to save people's sanity.
If you check your amixer settings, you should be able to unmute it to see if the beeping issue occurs for you.