Re: Guix System 1.0: No audio

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Sirgazil, Florian,

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 06:52:39AM -0500, sirgazil wrote:
> > Florian, for some reason, the speakers worked today. I'm not 
> > sure if running alsamixer yesterday after your instructions had 
> > anything to do with it or booting without the headphones 
> > plugged. Those are the only different things (related to sound) 
> > that I've done before starting the machine today. GNOME even 
> > displays some information when I plug the headphones. It didn't 
> > do this before.
>
> On my father’s PC booting with or without audio 3.5mm plug 
> headphones
> makes a difference.
>
>
> > One thing I noticed when booting is an error that says 
> > something like this:
> >
> >    Error: "pcspkr" is already registered, aborting.
>
> I see this too.
>
> > I wonder if that is related. Although the speakers worked 
> > anyways.

This is the driver for the vestigial ‘PC speaker’ that mainly[0] 
beeps and is completely missing on some modern systems, it (rather 
misleadingly) has nothing to do with speakers as you intend to 
enjoy them.


Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: https://www.tobias.gr/monkeez.mp4

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