It is 2009 and I am still hearing my pc speaker

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:55:04AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> I wanted to bring this to the attention of the mailing list, as it's 
> been a pet annoyance of mine for 10 months now with a relatively simple 
> workaround.  Simply put, my laptop will emit a very harsh screech 
> powered by the PC Speaker, and Ubuntu is to blame.  There are two bugs:
> 
> A harsh beep during normal use whenever the "alert sound" is supposed to 
> trigger:
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/301174
> A harsh beep on shutdown:
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/290204

I think the more relevant bug is
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/331589 which is
now Fix Committed.

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 - mdz