Bug#620652: linux-image-2.6.38-2-686-bigmem: fails to disable error beep

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Hi Henry,

henry atting wrote:

> Usually as a last resort removing the pc speaker modules pcspkr and
> snd_pscp effectively disables the error beep.
> Not with this kernel.
>
> In the according directories I removed `pcspkr.ko` and `snd_pcsp.ko`,
> then executed `depmod -a`, then built initird with:
> update-initramfs -u -k all.
>
> Nevertheless the beep on error is still there...

Could you be more specific?  What version did not have this problem?
What do you do to provoke the beep?  (I have to ask since on a desktop
there are some situations where a sound file containing a recorded
beep sound is played.)

> [   18.175066] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input13

Hmm, this is interesting.  What happens if you unload snd_hda_intel
and reload it with beep_mode=0?

	# modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
	# modprobe snd_hda_intel beep_mode=0

If that works, maybe 2 ("mutable using the software mixer") would be a
good default for SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP_MODE.

Thanks for reporting,
Jonathan