--- On Sat, 4/16/11, James Wilkinson fedora@aprilcottage.co.uk wrote:
OK – that’s a desktop environment thing. (Which desktop environment, anyway?)
X with a lightweight wm, but the console's affected just the same.
As soon as you make HDA available, it will use that.
I haven't seen a beep once HDA's loaded, and mixer and beep_mode don't seem to matter.
You might also want to check you have pulseaudio-module-x11 installed.
It is, but the problem's not limited to X.
James (who is somewhat handicapped – in this case! – by not having any hardware with a PC speaker any more).
I have some fresh doubts the unit in question actually has a piezoelectric buzzer, however the BIOS is certainly capable of emitting beeps and these are effectively mimicked with pcspkr.