Unable to re-add pcspkr module after using modprobe to remove it
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(I'm using Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish with vanilla Gnome).
In an attempt to get the beep command to work, I read on a forum that I could do:
# unload pcspkr module
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr
# add snd-pcsp module
sudo modprobe snd-pcsp
However, now my computer can't produce any sound at all. I think beep works fine now, but I couldn't tell until I tried playing a YouTube video and nothing no matter what I did to the volume.
So, I tried to add it back:
sudo modprobe pcspkr
but got the error:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'pcspkr': Device or resource busy
So, I tried removing snd-pcsp if it was causing the issue:
sudo modprobe -r snd-pcsp
with the resulting error:
modprobe: FATAL: Module snd_pcsp is in use.
So, I checked to see what was installed and what wasn't.
lsmod | grep pcspkr
Returned nothing and:
lsmod | grep snd-pcsp
also returned nothing.
Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated!
In an attempt to get the beep command to work, I read on a forum that I could do:
# unload pcspkr module
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr
# add snd-pcsp module
sudo modprobe snd-pcsp
However, now my computer can't produce any sound at all. I think beep works fine now, but I couldn't tell until I tried playing a YouTube video and nothing no matter what I did to the volume.
So, I tried to add it back:
sudo modprobe pcspkr
but got the error:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'pcspkr': Device or resource busy
So, I tried removing snd-pcsp if it was causing the issue:
sudo modprobe -r snd-pcsp
with the resulting error:
modprobe: FATAL: Module snd_pcsp is in use.
So, I checked to see what was installed and what wasn't.
lsmod | grep pcspkr
Returned nothing and:
lsmod | grep snd-pcsp
also returned nothing.
Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated!