snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

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James Wilkinson wrote:
>>> together. Loading snd_hda_intel after pcspkr is in and working causes
>>> loss of the terminal beep.

"Terminal beep" also includes audible notifications from programs such as nedit and mozilla, e.g. search term not found.  Affected terminals are xterm and the console; I haven't experimented with others.  What I'm looking for is the sound issued by that piezoelectric thing half the population hates- I don't want it from HDA (which doesn't seem to work either, but I'm ok with that part).

>> Are you sure that the terminal you usually use isn’t trying to use
>> modern sound hardware if it’s available (so we can have MP3 ringtone
>> beeps instead of 1970s beeps)?
>>
>> *Which* terminal, anyway? There are at least seven I can think of.

It's not exclusively a terminal thing (noted above), although that's what it's historically associated with.  Sorry for the ambiguity.

>> James (who turns all the beeps off).

Anyway, the trouble is this: the beeps work as expected until snd-hda-intel is loaded.  Then they're irrevocably gone, recoverable only by a reboot.  I've tried mixers and beep_mode adjustments to no avail.

Milhaus (who turns all beeps on).