[alsa-devel] [Alsa-user] Pc Speaker

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 13 May 2008 13:14:38 +0200,
Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> On 13-05-08 12:44, Armin ranjbar wrote:
> 
> >> Device Drivers ->
> >>   Input device support ->
> >>     Miscelaneous devices
> >>
> >> With current mainline, it's:
> >>
> >> General setup ->
> >>   Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)
> >>      Enable PC-Speaker support
> > 
> > Thank you very much for your reply , 
> > 
> > but i have to say that i have this options activated , still no pc
> > speaker .
> 
> Rechecked. Yes, you need this option, you need the ALSA one disabled (not
> modular, disabled) and then the PC speaker driver option appears in its
> input menu where you want to enable it. Paths as given in last reply.
> 
> Yes, that would seem to be amazingly clumsily done. Perhaps there was a
> reason (adding alsa-devel).

Since snd-pcsp itself provides the input pcspkr functionality, it
replaces the input pcspkr driver.

Anyway, the problem of beep on Dell XPS is a different.  The PC beep
isn't implemented (initialized) in the sound driver side.  I have no
interest in fixing it as I hate PC beep feature, but am willing to
apply patches if provided :)


Takashi