Beep on X11 login screen

[Bill Nottingham]

Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said: 
> > 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.

Well, I'm pretty sure it's a PC speaker beep anyway. Not that that
changes how you can tell how loud it will be.

Bill