The bell stopped working again after the following upgrade and restarting the X session:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+4 1:7.5~3 xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.5-1 2:1.7.2-2 xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.2.5-1 1:2.3.1-1 xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.3-1 1:6.12.4-1 Again, in an X session without Gnome running, the bell works correctly. My wild guess is that the breakage may caused by xserver-xorg-core no longer using HAL since 1.7.2-1 and Gnome somehow relying on it. Please excuse me for not researching it properly, but I am a bit tired of tracking issues like this anymore. I switched to Xfce instead, which I probably should have done much earlier, for a few other reasons. Thank you for your patience and consideration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org