Kernel 2.6.18-1.2200 beeps too often

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> said:
> I noted that this can be alleviated by excuting 'xset b off' ... This
> seems to be a new 'feature' of this kernel ... anyone else think it's
> annoying or is it useful to others?

It was a bug for a few FC releases that pcspkr wasn't loaded when the
hardware was present (before that, it was built in, not as a module, and
had been present forever).

If you don't want it, you can turn it off by blacklisting the module.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.