From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC621381F3 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8BDAE0AA2; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABB06E09DF for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id t60so8556714wes.30 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:58:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2YIt/SP5baKK0qlPfqulWvDwenWDLCnLcgXoa/dU65A=; b=D5TGgAgrwLD3Ns+ej2qeuGjP563SqYGWhZRNVae+53QtrEz65ykHJWRedWhnsBMsFO JqINJpzmzR8oXoIYfdeUxkm6USrFDbAvkUslJaFXXxh4pJGy6oxy42ZFOnLWk22wT2t4 nExCpRZcMLZKKuBzhR3iofDIUQ5rHyHBGae+fy1ysjSitPElz0mn1DeKnh8TuFNPwMvD pAbD193R+rvyuwrekAsJsXOsVEAOc7szMkORPH3yN6HqISh69fmQRy0xPIZh/7uOPoP+ AtyAuh7/VIEdc9zAD2xetCBfQGc6e9NglVt4XeV4Mq1chECiMtBROHpoYV/vBipWpfC0 oF7A== X-Received: by 10.180.188.144 with SMTP id ga16mr12449949wic.42.1381841913318; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-102-9.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w10sm5949158wia.4.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:58:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <525D3BF4.9030008@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:58:28 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11 References: <600a43cda74a6b24c023dac731979afa@weilbacher.org> <500ea694f3d63d674d59c1d6c24469a7@weilbacher.org> In-Reply-To: <500ea694f3d63d674d59c1d6c24469a7@weilbacher.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d4552348-78c8-46de-a914-dcc1bb5de1cd X-Archives-Hash: 1a53ec2191ebb785ba6ec30464c23fd1 On 15/10/2013 14:44, Peter Weilbacher wrote: > On 2013-09-26 14:42, Peter Weilbacher wrote: >> On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal >> loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I >> first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues >> with 3.11.1. > [...] >> In the meantime I left the machine on long enough to discover that it >> stops beeping whenever it is idle long enough and blanks the display. > > Well, this is embarrassing: Since this began I switched the machine on > even less often than before, but yesterday I found out by chance that > the sound did not come from the internal speaker but from the speakers > built into my screen. Now I traced it to the snd-hda-intel kernel module > (noise there if loaded, sound gone when removed with |modprobe -r|). > > Why was the sound never heard on bootup in 3.8.x kernels but is starting > with 3.10.1? 3.8.x defaults to $VOL=$MINIMUM while 3.10.x defaults to $VOL=$SOMETHING_NOT_MINIMAL ?? or maybe the audio feed to snd-hda-intel was busted for years and some kind soul fixed it in 3.10? Diff the drivers in the kernel sources to find out more :-) > > Peter. > > P.S.: At least now I know that the easy workaround is to tune the > (hardware) speaker volume down to 0... > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com