[ltp] Re: Random beeps

[Richard Neill]

Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> was heard to say:
> | Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> |> When my T42p came back, I decided to install Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on it.
> |> Everything went smoothly, but now I have this very odd problem where
> |> the machine "beeps" periodically.
> [...]
> |> Anyone have any thoughts?
> |
> | Just that I experienced the same thing on a Dell desktop running
> | Debian GNU/Linux (etch). I too, use Emacs (22), and am pretty sure
> | that's it. The beeps would only occur when I was typing in an Emacs
> | window, if I remember correctly.
> |
> | I fixed it with "modprobe -r pcspkr" ;-).
> 
> FWIW, I've definitely noticed the beeps outside of Emacs now.
> 

Could it possibly be something like sticky-keys or a keyboard 
accessibility thing beeping?  KDE/GNOME accessibility does tend to beep 
a bit. Easy check: are the beeps principally triggered by meta-keys 
(ctrl,alt,shift...) ?

Richard