PCSpeaker Enabled by PulseAudio

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Binary package hint: pulseaudio

On Intrepid Alpha 1, by default pulse audio is enabling the PCspeaker for system sounds. This initially caused me great concern that the scratching noise was one of my HDDs, but it turns out Pulse is using the pc speaker to play user login sounds. A workaround has been identified that involves blacklisting the module like so:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

# stop pc speaker
blacklist snd_pcsp

[Christian Roessner (christian-roessner-net)]

I can confirm that bug. But I hope for a fix also that sounds really funny ;-)

[KIAaze (zohn-joidberg)]

Confirming it too in Ubuntu Intrepid.

Pulseaudio version:
ii pulseaudio 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 PulseAudio sound server

Hardware:
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 0850
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
 I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ALI 5451
 Kernel modules: trident, snd-ali5451