snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

[james tate]

On 04/15/2011 03:53 PM, updog wrote:
> 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).
Is there a possibility  that you have Two sound drivers trying to load ?

It happens in Linux, then you have to Blacklist one.