Hi This page has some information about beep: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=49685 I enabled my beep with: modprobe pcspkr snd-pcsp I have added pcspkr and snd-pcsp to: /etc/modules You may also check this file to assure the beep is not black-listed: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf Regards, Hudson