[pulseaudio-discuss] BEEEEEEP

[Jason Taylor]

On a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 the pc speaker is blacklisted by default.

2010/1/25 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> On Sun, 24.01.10 13:12, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
>
> Heya,
>
>> Someone asked recently about the Beep mixer in alsa. With a PA enabled
>> setup, controlling the Beep volume (when this is exposed via alsa)
>> becomes awkward.
>>
>> What is the best way to handle this? Could we tie it/slave it from the
>> master volume via the alsa mixer profile stuff perhaps?
>
> The PC speaker is something that needs to go away. I have no plans
> covering that in PA. I have no problem pissing those people off who
> think this relict from 1981 still matters in 2010. Generate proper
> event sounds, folks. Really. 29 years of horrible beep sounds should
> be enough. libcanberra is trivial to use and integral part of every
> distribution that could matter. Use it and forget about PC speakers.
>
> That said I do have plans in covering non-PCM hardware-mixed streams
> eventually as some kind of fake sink input that is transparently added
> by the alsa backend. That sink input would not add in any PCM audio
> but still be around for volume control and whatever else might
> matter. That way in pavucontrol you'd have one slider for each app
> stream and one for input feedback from "Line-In" or so. This might
> also become handy for mobile phone folks, who have audio streams that
> bypass PA in some and want this nicely covered in the volume
> control. This way this all could appear transparently for the client
> applications and integrate well with flat volumes. And later on, when
> we get proper jack sensing we could even have have those fake streams
> appear and disappear based on jack status.
>
> Of course, which mixer controls would be exposed as fake streams would
> be configurable via the mixer path stuff. By default we'd probably
> list only "Line-In" there, but if people have a fetish for nightmarish
> and hearing-loss-inducing beep sounds they could add further controls
> such as the PC speaker there.
>
> But for now, alsamixer -c0 is your only friend if you are this crazy.
>
> Lennart
>
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