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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:31:26 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, Pat Suwalski <pat@suwalski.net>,
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Subject: Re: [Bug 623] New: Volume not remembered.
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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> So why do we enable the PC-speaker beep automatically?
> Shouldn't that be silent initially too?

The difference to "sound" is that it won't make noise unless asked
to. So it starts with a safe default, and the rest is user policy.

On notebooks, I usually switch it off in my rc scripts after it's
been bothering me for the first time. Interesting ... I just
checked, and it seems that all my machines turn it off by default,
even without me knowingly doing something :-)

- Werner

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