On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:38 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > > What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion > > sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it > > being called the function alarm(). > > Sorry but actually SIGALRM relates to the program event signals and > has nothing to do with the speaker. I know it is called an "alarm" > but it isn't related to any type of alarm sound. The sigaction() call > is the new standard replacement for the classic signal() system call > which was different on different systems. SIGALRM is the signal > number designated for alarm events such as timeouts. If your program > needs to wake up at a certain time, say one minute in the future, then > it can set an alarm for this and be woken up by the system at that > time and it can sleep until them not taking up resources. > > > As we said, disabling your pc beep disables this, as disabling only > > the wall will not solve your problem (other programs will also beep > > the whole time). > > > > If your ALSA mixer does not have this (are you sure?), then maybe > > your sound card is controlled by other system that's not ALSA. In > > that case the gnome-volume-control may or may not have the pc beep > > option, but check the preferences again. > > On my laptop machine I disable the speaker by blacklisting the > 'snd_pcsp' module. I believe that is the alsa module. The module > name will be different in each sound system and in the old OSS days I > remember it being 'pcspkr'. If you are using yet a newer different > sound system (pulse audio?) then it will probably be yet a different > name. > > Try looking for and removing snd_pcsp as first pass. > > $ lsmod | grep pcsp > # rmmod snd_pcsp > > Bob
$ sudo lsmod | grep -i snd snd_hda_codec_hdmi 26548 1 snd_hda_codec_idt 53794 1 snd_hda_intel 26182 4 snd_hda_codec 72799 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 13186 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 63744 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_seq 45093 0 snd_timer 22917 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 13176 1 snd_seq snd 52798 16 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 13065 1 snd snd_page_alloc 13003 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm you dont happen to know witch one of this modules is causing it? :) none is culprit at first sight by name greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1323273322.3670.6.ca...@qindelbox.int.qindel.com
