Bug 459477

Summary:	System sounds gone after sound device defaulting to snd-pcsp
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Joachim Frieben 2008-08-19 09:02:55 UTC

Description of problem:
After updating the kernel from 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 to
2.6.26.2-14.fc9.x86_64, system sounds are replaced by clicks which is
a clear regression. Menu item "System > Preferences > Hardware > Volume
Control" that the sound device is "pcsp (Alsa mixer)".
The same holds for alsamixer.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.26.2-14.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start GNOME session.
2. Produce system event.
  
Actual results:
A click is emitted.

Expected results:
The corresponding GNOME sound event is played.

Additional info:
- This issue was present for early "rawhide" kernel of the 2.6.26-rcX
  series until the pcsp device got disabled in the kernel builds.
- 'aplay -D hw:1 /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav' does play the correct sound
  whereas 'aplay /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav' does not.
- Whereas other systems might produce meaningful sounds using the PC
  speaker, the NVIDIA nForce™ 4 chipset does not.

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2008-08-22 01:34:16 UTC

snd-pcsp got blacklisted by default and then re-enabled in rawhide (bug 452748).

I guess we should just not build it in F8 and F9...

Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2008-08-22 17:24:50 UTC

Disabled the driver in 2.6.26.2-16

Comment 3 Joachim Frieben 2008-08-25 07:47:05 UTC

System sounds are back although disabling the snd-pcsp driver is nothing more than a temporary workaround. One clearly wants to be able to use the internal speaker but it simply should not be the default device.