Comment 9 for bug 242966

I have seen much skepticism about the usefulness of the pc speaker as a sound device. I would like to chime in with a perfect use case for it: If you have your voip headset plugged into your sole soundcard (plugs at the back of the computer, hidden away) and you don't want to wear it all the time, it's very handy to use the pc speaker for the ringing sound. Sound quality is good enough for that purpose.

(Emilio, I also got scared and thought it was Gnome eating my disk, lol. Now I am impressed and happy that the pc speaker can be used for something else than a loud beep.)