It is 2009 and I am still hearing my pc speaker

[Mike Rooney]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> 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
>
> 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.
>


I had this problem in early Jaunty alphas as well, although it seems
to have fixed itself after a fresh install of Alpha 5. Have you tried
this Scott? It may mean that the issue is solved for at least some
cases in the final release. Either way I agree it is quite disturbing;
everyone in my office also found it annoying for a bit until I gave up
and went back to Intrepid until A5.

-- 
Michael Rooney
mrooney at gmail.com