It has been solved, at least for initial installs. Pete, what you will have to do is go into the mixer, and turn down/mute the "PC Beep" control. That will get rid of that loud beep you are getting.
As the changelog for the alsa-utils upload above explains, this sound control will be muted by default for fresh installs, but will allow people to enable it should they choose to do so. -- system beep in jaunty is the most annoying sound known to man https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331589 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
