Re: Annoying beeps

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> Felipe Contreras schrieb:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Felipe Contreras schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I recently installed a new system and got almost deaf by my laptop's
>>>> annoying beep of the pc speaker. There are a lot of ways to disable
>>>> it, but shouldn't this get fixed in the right way?
>>>>
>>>> I can't help but image showing a brand new Linux system to a bunch of
>>>> people with Compiz, and all these video and audio capabilities,
>>>> virtualizing Windows and what not, but hit backspace in the wrong
>>>> location and BEEP! Straight to the 80's.
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't something in GNOME map XBeep or whatever to something more
>>>> appropriate?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> PulseAudio can replace it with any sound.
>>>
>>
>> Cool, but what if the system doesn't have PulseAudio?
>>
>>
>
> Then you have loud beeps :) Or port that small part from pulseaudio and
> stick it into your gnome-session.

Well, I have pulseaudio, I guess it's not enabled by default.

In any case, I left the pcspkr module on to force myself into
reporting this issue, but today is the last time I will let myself
hear that horrible sound.

If you are interested there's bug #539729.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras