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[Grondr <f-ub-bug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

As far as I can determine, the system bell (e.g., built-in motherboard
beeper) is completely broken in Karmic under X.  Non-X beeping does work
after extensive workarounds; please see bug #486154 for my hardware &
software versions, what I did to enable the bell to work outside of X,
and how I'm testing it.  (For instance, I"m not just relynig on
gnome---^G in Emacs doesn't work, either.)

However, nothing I've been able to do has made the bell work -in- X, and
I'm assuming that this is either an X bug per se, or a Pulseaudio bug
(simply because so many other audio issues seem to implicate PA).  [Note
that, as a test, I booted an AMD64 LiveCD and purged PA; this didn't
help despite all my other workarounds, so if it's PA, I need a more-
complete way to get rid of it.] For all I know, it's a Metacity bug.
But I have no idea how to effectively figure out where to point the
finger, and the common element seems to be X.

This is absolutely a regression.  The same hardware works in, for
example, 6.06, which predates the physical motherboard by years.  This
is also a completely blocker for my use of Karmic; I absolutely need the
bell to function.  (And workarounds like "use speakers" are no
workarounds for me, and don't work anyway---the bell isn't coming out of
those, either.)

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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System bell broken under X in Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489855
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