terminal bell pc speaker

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>> Hi, I just installed Fedora 14 on my machine.  There is no beep
>> through the pc speaker from terminal events.  This worked previously
>> in Fedora 10 on this machine.  I tried loading the pcspkr module, but
>> that did not fix the problem.  Any ideas on how to get the terminal
>> bell/pc speaker working?
>
> AFAIK there is no way to get the PC speaker to beep anymore in X; the
> PulseAudio author decided nobody should use that anymore.  The best you
> can do is enable the alert sound effect, assuming you have a sound
> device in the computer and speakers connected.

Why has PulseAudio author decided so?

Paul