It happens to my Dell Vostro 1500 laptop too, disabling the uplash eliminate the loud beeps. If you enable usplash with the "vga-791" option in /boot/grub/menu.lst the system boots without the beeps, but the elements in usplash screen are displayed in wrong positions.
-- loud beep when starting intrepid on a dell lattitude/inspiron https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253399 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs