Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

found 532005 linux-2.6/2.6.32-39
# It turns out that the HDA digital beep overriding the pc speaker is
# a feature, not a bug, since it allows controlling the volume of (and
# in particular, muting) the beep.  Bug#540831 has details.
retitle 532005 PC speaker bell makes a hideous buzzing honk, not a nice beep
quit

Hi Matthew and Nick,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Matthew Wakeling wrote:

>> Today I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The console beep no longer works.
>> Some hideous sound now emerges from the sound card instead.
>
> Reproduced on an HP G71-445US laptop.  The honk that replaced the bell
> is like a quick buzzer sound.  Could you try this patchset (the first
> patch of which seems to help on that machine, at least)?

Are you still interested in pursuing this?  Instructions for building
and testing a patched kernel can be found at [1].

Thanks again for a clear report.  Finding the fix was fun.

[1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html