Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
> henry atting wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> # 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.
>>
>> This works indeed. Becaus I could not unload it (got a message that it
>> is still in use) I put these two lines in /etc/rc.local... and the beep
>> is gone.
>
> Thanks. One final test: if you use beep_mode=2 (instead of beep_mode=0)
> and use your usual mixing app, can you cause the beep to go away (i.e.,
> is there a control for that)?
As far as I remember there is no control for the beep in alsamixer. As
I use pulseaudio maybe there is one in pavucontrol but I can not test it
until tomorrow...
> Depending on the answer, I think we should:
>
> * use beep_mode=2 and find some way to advertise (release notes?)
> that the mixer can be used to turn the beep on and off, or
>
> * keep using beep_mode=1 and find some way to advertise that adding
> a .conf file to /etc/modprobe.d with
>
> options snd_hda_intel beep_mode=0
>
> will turn the beep off. And if there is some sysfs way to change
> the setting at runtime, that would be worth advertising, too.
>
> Meanwhile I also think it would be a good idea to turn pc speaker
> beeps in general off by default, but that's a separate story (and
> probably should be filed as a separate bug).
In my mind that would be great.
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