Re: Beep on X11 login screen

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> It is quite intentional - it is there so blind users can know when they
> have a prompt awaiting login.

That strikes me as fundamentally useless since the volume setting for the
sound card is 'however the last user left it' and we don't have enough
information to know the difference between 'owwww my ears' and 'pin drop'
or even which channel its mixed through if any.

Alan