Hi Andrew. Here is the patch that updates the pcspeaker driver with the following: 1. Use i8253_lock to serialize the port 0x43 accesses, rather than a hand-made i8253_beep_lock. 2. Added EV_SYN/SYN_CONFIG event that allows to disable the driver completely, either to grant the hardware access to some other driver, or to disable the annoying beeps. Acked-by: Vojtech Pavlik Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev