Bug#244715: "Use system bell" doesn't use system bell (and kills everything else)

[Phil Edwards <pme@devphil.com>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:09:14PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> 
> It should still work on 2.4 as well but I don't run 2.4.x anymore
> since I moved to the amd64 arch. I will try to build a recent 2.4
> kernel for my box to see if I can test it. Which 2.4 kernel are you
> using?

2.4.22, and kde from unstable.  Works fine from the console, but the kde
sounds are now intercepting the system beep.  (That wouldn't really bother
me in itself, but the onboard audio has never worked.  The kernel module
loads, but playing sound just creates the famous "via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11", which doesn't actually tell me what's wrong.)

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