Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

[Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@iki.fi>]

On Mar 23, 2014, at 5:13, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 23.03.2014 00:45, schrieb null_ptr:
>> On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr:
>>>> On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote:
>>>>> I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such,
>>>>> but it
>>>>> prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available & load
>>>>> it.
>>>>> On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, "Dat G" <rhannek@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is
>>>>>>>> activated
>>>>>>>> in kernel config. Am I missing something else?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I tried building with that and it didn't fix it.
>>>> 
>>>> "modprobe pcspkr" doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also
>>>> tried
>>>> building it in the kernel.
>>>> 
>>>> On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be
>>>> doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on
>>>> the mainboard and instead beeps through the regular sound device. At
>>>> least on 3.10.25 I had not build the pcspkr module and the system
>>>> beeped
>>>> happily.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Now, are we talking about the motherboard beeping through a little
>>> builtin speaker that does not work
>>> or
>>> Are we talking about your onboard sound not beeping in your
>>> headphones/your attached speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'?
>>> 
>>> Either way, I don't see any problem at all. A non-beeping computer is a
>>> correctly working one.
>> 
>> I'm talking about the onboard sound not beeping in the attached
>> headphones/speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'. The problem is
>> that I used that for some events as a status (e.g. battery running low)
>> and I like the annoying nature of the beep for these events.
>> 
>> 
> 
> so it is not a 'speaker' problem but a sound card problem. You should
> have stated that from the beginning.
> 
> Probably something muted that should not be muted.
> 

Check that you can play sounds from different sources to see that there is no process blocking your alsa driver.

If there is a program that is blocking alsa you can find out which process it is by: fuser -v /dev/snd/*