oh, speaker

[Vu Pham]

Vu Pham wrote:
> While I were in the process of upgrading my desktop from FC7 to FC8, I 
> found that my FC ( even when it was 7 , before switch to 8 ) now uses 
> the speaker to alert. For example, when I type in a wrong password, it 
> would use the standard speaker to make a really *big* noise.
> 
> ( By the way, this system is under VMWare ).
> 
> It seems all the sound modules loaded properly :
>> [root at vm2 ~]#  lsmod | grep snd
>> snd_ens1371            23905  3 gameport               14665  1 
>> snd_ens1371
>> snd_rawmidi            21185  1 snd_ens1371
>> snd_ac97_codec         92389  1 snd_ens1371
>> ac97_bus                6081  1 snd_ac97_codec
>> snd_seq_dummy           6725  0 snd_seq_oss            29889  0 
>> snd_seq_midi_event      9793  1 snd_seq_oss
>> snd_seq                44849  5 
>> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
>> snd_seq_device         10061  4 
>> snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>> snd_pcm_oss            37569  0 snd_mixer_oss          16705  1 
>> snd_pcm_oss
>> snd_pcm                63685  3 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
>> snd_timer              20549  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>> snd                    43461  16 
>> snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer 
>>
>> soundcore               9633  1 snd
>> snd_page_alloc         11337  1 snd_pcm

Ah, found it.
Preferences - Hardware - Sound and it has an option of System Beep. 
Disabling the System Beep solves the problem.

Phhhhheww !!! The system that made that big noise is a notebook which I 
have no way to take the speaker out.

Vu