Hi! Thanks to jidanni to bringing this to my attention.
* Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> [2009-09-03 04:15:52 CEST]: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:23:25AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > Blacklisting pcspkr ruins beep(1), and icewm' mail beep, and probably > > other programs. > > > > There should perhaps be a whiptail question saying what is being ruined > > and what to do about it. > > > > I don't know the official way one should fix it. > > > > I could tamper with some blacklist, but that is not official. > > This primarily seems like a bug in whatever alsa driver you use, for not > taking over the function of the console beep (and thus routing it > through the normal sound card, which allows muting, volume control, and > various other niceties that pcspkr doesn't). The core functionality of beep _is_ to use the pcspkr. Having alsa-base stumble upon other packages usefulness with some reasoning that I have a hard time to follow -- the intention is clear but the outcome is a horror to quite some other packages -- I really would request to revert this change. Having some alsa drivers routing it through their own sound system might be nice but it doesn't seem to work, e.g. people on powerpc seem to have problems to get any beep at all, and blacklisting the modules in no way helps with that. > If you don't use an alsa driver, then uninstall alsa-base and the > blacklist of pcspkr will go away. Sorry, but alsa-base breaks other application through that blacklisting, which is a no-go. > And if you want to keep alsa-base installed and still have pcspkr, just > edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf and comment the "blacklist > pcspkr" line. Why is this forced down the throat of users? How regular actually is the question on how to disable the speaker? In fact, the speaker IMHO is in no scope of the alsa-base area so it shouldn't address it. Having some README.Debian entry about it might be reasonable, touching an area that isn't alsa-bases is just wrong. Thanks, Rhonda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
