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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677870 Title: Beep not working in 10.10 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs