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

[Matthew Wakeling]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 05 juin 2009 à 17:43 +0100, Matthew Wakeling a écrit :
>> Today I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The console beep no longer works.
>> Some hideous sound now emerges from the sound card instead. There does not
>> seem to be any knob to switch this back.
>
> Is pulseaudio running? I guess you can configure this in the sound
> preferences.

Pulseaudio isn't even installed. Would that help? I can't see what a sound 
server would have to do with the PC speaker.

If I go to the sound preferences, then I am presented with a window that 
has two tabs. The device selector has only one option "HDA Intel (Alsa 
mixer)". The first tab is labelled "Playback" and contains volume 
controls. The second tab is labelled "Sound Theme", and contains a page of 
disabled controls. The Preferences button at the bottom merely allows me 
to choose which volume controls appear in the Playback tab.

Matthew

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