Comment 54 for bug 331589
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| blakeyrat (blakeyrat-gmail) wrote Re: Extremely loud and intrusive system beep with (some?) Intel HD Audio devices | #54 |
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Matt,
Sorry, my laptop (which exhibited this problem) doesn't have Intel anything on it. It has a NVidia motherboard with RealTek HD sound card and displayed all of the symptoms reported on this thread:
* PC Speaker beep when shutting down
* PC Speaker beep playing instead of the OS-configured "alert" sound, i.e. when searching text in Firefox and the text is not found (exception: when actually setting the "alert" sound in the control panel it plays the correct sound)
Additionally, "PC Beep" and "PC Speaker" don't show up in the list of audio devices, so they can't be muted.
I also disagree with removing the "most annoying sound known to man" line; it might be a bit of hyperbole, but not a lot: nobody wants to be sitting on a train or bus and have their laptop pump out 120 Db of ear-grating square wave because they had the audacity to search for text that wasn't on the webpage. (I don't know about the majority of people, but I pretty much only use my laptop on public transit.)
I've actually uninstalled Ubuntu and put Vista back on my laptop until this bug can be fixed for good-- that's how annoying it is.