unmerge 540831 reassign 540831 linux-latest-2.6 tags 544496 + pending thx
* Elimar Riesebieter [090903 12:30 +0200] > * jida...@jidanni.org [090903 09:23 +0800] > > reopen 540831 > > forcemerge 540831 544496 > > Jidanni, in #544496 you mentioned a "ruined" sound. Can you hear > music? Do you mean that only your beep has gone? Well in that case I > propose to reanable pcspkr and reassign 540831 to linux-latest-2.6. > > > thanks > > 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. > > As mentioned by others in this thread you should check your sound > card for the ability to simulate a terminal beep, what most drivers > do. Mailnotification and system sounds can also be handled by your > soundcard, though. But if you use your internal speaker (maybe a > piezo one?) for all your sound, then you really need pcspkr, which > is proposed to use on embedded sytems by the kernel maintainers. Are > you using such one? > > Anyway, it is not a question of Debians alsa-base. If one build > pcspkr from our alsa-source package (s)he knows what (s)he is doing. > Removing the blacklisting of pcspkr from alsa-base is consistent in > that case. Will be done next upload. > > > > > I don't know the official way one should fix it. > > > > I could tamper with some blacklist, but that is not official. > > There is a note in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf. #544496 will be fixed in 1.0.21 upload. Elimar -- Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
