[alsa-devel] PC speaker beeps in 2.6.30?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:39:08 -0700,
Paul Vojta wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 09:36:42AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:03:54 +0400,
> > Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > 
> > > [Adding some more Cc's...]
> > > 
> > > Am I the only concerned about this?  My 2.6.30 is still
> > > silent w.r.t. old good PC speaker beeps, and I wasn't
> > > able to make it to produce any sound.  Yes, as pointed
> > > out by others there is a control now, in alsa, and I
> > > can hear ugly and scary beeps from my stereo speakers
> > > (when they're turned on and when the control is un-muted).
> > > But that's.. not a solution/answer to the original
> > > question... ;)
> > 
> > Try 2.6.31-rc1.  There was a fix regarding beep frequency.
> 
> Not necessarily.  Based on the OP's original post, as well as his mails
> to the LKML (Google the subject line to find them), he has a desktop
> system with external powered speakers connected to a sound card, and also
> a small PC speaker inside the system case.  He wants to hear the beeps
> coming out of the small speaker, since the external speakers (and/or sound
> card) are not always turned on.

To avoid someone misunderstanding: the beep routed through HD-audio
can also go to the built-in speaker.  It's just mixed up with the
normal audio output, and the volume is controlled via ALSA mixer 
volume element.

But, once after it's hooked up to the codec, the beep can't be output
separately to the speaker.  It's always with other audio signal to the
same output target.

Or, on some systems (mostly laptops), the beep is hooked up to the
codec automatically no matter whether you set
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP once when the codec chip is initialized.
So, the behavior depends pretty much on the hardware implementation.


Takashi