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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.)
Hi grondr,
Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?
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