Re: PC speaker beeps in 2.6.30?

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Ken Witherow wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
>> For me the system beep has been replaced by a beep in ALSA with .30.
>>
>> Do you have soundcard that uses HDA? Is CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP set?
>> Does alsamixer show a "beep" control? Is that not muted and does it have
>> volume set?
> 
> I had this exact same problem. I ran make oldconfig and was never 
> prompted for the new HDA config options. I could be wrong, but I can't 
> remember make oldconfig behaving this way in the past (or maybe it 
> resulted in changes that didn't have any noticeable effect). Having to 
> reconfigure the kernel over not being prompted for a new config option 
> which changed established behavior was annoying to say the least.

As I noted in my other email, this option (CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP)
is not new, it is present in 2.6.29 too.  So it's a behavor change which
is not "backed up" by a config option -- there's no option to prompt
for.

/mjt