[gentoo-user] Re: Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11
On 2013-09-26 14:42, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues with 3.11.1. [...] In the meantime I left the machine on long enough to discover that it stops beeping whenever it is idle long enough and blanks the display. Well, this is embarrassing: Since this began I switched the machine on even less often than before, but yesterday I found out by chance that the sound did not come from the internal speaker but from the speakers built into my screen. Now I traced it to the snd-hda-intel kernel module (noise there if loaded, sound gone when removed with |modprobe -r|). Why was the sound never heard on bootup in 3.8.x kernels but is starting with 3.10.1? Peter. P.S.: At least now I know that the easy workaround is to tune the (hardware) speaker volume down to 0...
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11
On 15/10/2013 14:44, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On 2013-09-26 14:42, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues with 3.11.1. [...] In the meantime I left the machine on long enough to discover that it stops beeping whenever it is idle long enough and blanks the display. Well, this is embarrassing: Since this began I switched the machine on even less often than before, but yesterday I found out by chance that the sound did not come from the internal speaker but from the speakers built into my screen. Now I traced it to the snd-hda-intel kernel module (noise there if loaded, sound gone when removed with |modprobe -r|). Why was the sound never heard on bootup in 3.8.x kernels but is starting with 3.10.1? 3.8.x defaults to $VOL=$MINIMUM while 3.10.x defaults to $VOL=$SOMETHING_NOT_MINIMAL ?? or maybe the audio feed to snd-hda-intel was busted for years and some kind soul fixed it in 3.10? Diff the drivers in the kernel sources to find out more :-) Peter. P.S.: At least now I know that the easy workaround is to tune the (hardware) speaker volume down to 0... -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/13 16:44, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On 2013-09-26 14:42, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues with 3.11.1. [...] In the meantime I left the machine on long enough to discover that it stops beeping whenever it is idle long enough and blanks the display. Well, this is embarrassing: Since this began I switched the machine on even less often than before, but yesterday I found out by chance that the sound did not come from the internal speaker but from the speakers built into my screen. Now I traced it to the snd-hda-intel kernel module (noise there if loaded, sound gone when removed with |modprobe -r|). Why was the sound never heard on bootup in 3.8.x kernels but is starting with 3.10.1? Peter. P.S.: At least now I know that the easy workaround is to tune the (hardware) speaker volume down to 0... nice joke -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSXYgFAAoJEK64IL1uI2haeSMIAJbsbjekIbOGvAtKyPKl/8s9 QEtMdQnzFZNPI4TbqgXHR8Qqms/8mA8JHUgY0RkuuLoXoGzInhQi5elkUujloLgY QlW8uYoneLWFljmgapseNtn+HE2hZTSB4fcSzAx0jwu4fEMVV4YpkiltA/1gSp7m hX76pMLKcTRjMz7w9rh75pebHY94HzD+x8BX02Jq1VsaD9xzfXlhFj4Aerl5E6s3 E1RGhZ39b15AbBidkJwxSXK5f/4g4EDWOL69JiVRNycc2gz/NBJGSJYFjdD107Xo GpmNxqs02M0EJGh4xLoe1y+icFlkB65PDC9DwR2gHOyoBm5E4KkLuTkonsrdJoo= =cMwT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
