It is 2009 and I am still hearing my pc speaker

[Scott Ritchie]

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

Something is clearly wrong.  It was bad enough that this was a problem 
in Intrepid, but it's still happening in Jaunty as well.

There was talk earlier of blacklisting the pcspkr module by default.  If 
we can't solve these two bugs then that seems like a fine workaround. 
The best solution, of course, is to actually solve the bugs - I'd like 
to actually hear that friendly Gnome alert beep instead of the harsh 
system beep I'm getting.

Regardless, if this doesn't get fixed then you can bet we'll see 
reviewers complaining about Ubuntu using the very words I did in the 
subject of my email.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie