For permanently blacklisting, create a file /etc/modprobe.d/60-atomisp.conf containing the line: blacklist atomisp About the beep problem: this is possibly a known long-standing problem of ASoC SOF Baytrail/Cherrytrail driver (bsc#1186422). The upstream bug entry is: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/3868 A workaround is to add the option options snd_sof sof_debug=1 Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/60-sof-debug.conf containg the line above, and reboot/retest.