I'd argue that it's more than not useful, it's extremely annoying and misleading. We have two dell laptops in the house that had this problem. Due to the pc-speaker-like sound of the beeps, and the fact that the volume of the sound is very loud independent of the mixer settings, I thought this was a BIOS bug. I've been googling "dell resume BIOS alarm" for literally months trying to figure out this problem. I only found this bug report by searching for "dell resume loud beep" eventually. (Getting up in the morning and hearing loud beeps from my resuming laptop is a rude awakening.)
I understand the need for a sound-only alarm, and that it can't be language-specific, but it needs to be a little more gentle, more like a mac error sound than the current "angry series of beeps" sound. It also must correspond to an actual error, as stated. I hear the sound 50% of the time I resume, but only if it resumes successfully. I never hear the sound when resume fails. That's pretty poor. The option should be disabled until it starts correlating with actual failure. -- "Use sound to notify in event of an error" is not useful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
