** Description changed:
+ SRU justification:
+
+ Impact: Having the speaker beep enabled for snd-hda-intel cards produces
+ a very intrusive noise which is more annoying than helpful.
+
+ Fix: For now disable the system beep in that driver.
+
+ Testcase: Working in a virtual terminal doing some action that causes a
+ beep.
+
+ ---
+
I am seeing this problem on Jaunty and have been since I first
installed. I am currently running Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4 with updates as
of 18 Feb 2009. The current system beep is *EXTREMELY* annoying (even
more annoying than people who feel the need to write in all caps). I'm
surprised my ear drums have not burst yet (I'm not kidding). This sound
is what I imagine I would hear if I were to stick my tongue into a 240V
socket, except that might hurt less.
This same laptop worked fine with Intrepid and Hardy. Though sound
doesn't work today it has certainly worked in the past. Regardless of
whether any other system sound works the Annoying System Beep (tm)
persists. I don't dare use headphones for fear the system might decide
to beep.
I have tried disabling the system beep a number of ways:
* blacklisted pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
* Add `xset b off` and `xset b 0 0 0` in various session files
* Add `set bell-style none` in ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile
I am now able to turn it off in the GNOME Sound preferences (thanks Bug
#325778!), but that doesn't stop the system from beeping when in a
virtual terminal or if I'm not running X at all. Regardless, turning
the sound off is merely a work-around. I have not yet tried shutting
down, but the system used to beep then too (different bug afaik).
$ lspci -vv -s 00:1b.0
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0209
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at f6ffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
Please let me know what information might be useful.
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system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589
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