I have the same problem here so I did some research and found the following:
It seems the pc speaker was intentionally disabled in Maverick(see bug #77010)
To get it back edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and comment the line 
blacklist pcspkr

I tried it and now beep works again

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  Beep not working in 10.10

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