Bug#569494: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686: pcspkr sometimes breaks audio

[Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>]

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 09:14:39 -0500
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andres,
> 
[...]
> 
> Ways forward:
> 
>  - libasound2 could use "Suggests: alsa-base".  (Recommends would be
>    too strong because alsa-base has nontrivial dependencies itself and
>    it is not too unusual to use binaries linked to the ALSA libs on a
>    system that doesn't need sound support.)
> 
>  - Should /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf be shipped in udev instead of
>    alsa-base?
> 
>  - Is there any long-term path away from (1)?
> 
> Thanks, and sorry for the long quiet.
> Jonathan

Note that I no longer have the hardware that was described in the bug
report, and I don't actually recall what the problem was anymore..