Comment 93 for bug 486154

Hi all,

It is six years later and this exact problem is back with Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus.
I unblacklisted pcspkr and loaded the module, plus the overwhelming multitude of other steps.

The "beep" command works and "echo blahblah | wall" also works, "but echo -e '\a'" and "printf '\a'" do nothing, nor does the rubout or other keys in terminal and Gedit.

I've never submitted a bug before, but I'll try now and reference this bug so we can benefit from all your hard work.