Comment 13 for bug 144022

I wish to state that this problem persists in Ubuntu 10.04. "beep -e /dev/input/by-path/platform-pcspkr-event-spkr" doesn't work, even when I added "rmmod pcspkr || true / modprobe pcspkr || true" to /etc/rc.local and rebooted. (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/398161). It's very annoying because beeping is an essential part of my bash scripts as a notification to the user and I don't know of any alternative, except playing something with totem, which isn't an ideal solution.