no sound anymore in terminal

Bug #986893 reported by John Vivirito
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

while in gnome-terminal i cant get any sound to play (used to be system beep) but was changed in favor of using the sounds located in system settings/sound/sound effects. however they dont work. i can play sound from a file or web browser like i can get aplay to play a sound but nothing in terminal itsself.
The problem is also seen in irssi when im pinged nothing happens ecxcept high light

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.4.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 22 11:08:25 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120331)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

WIth "Terminal Bell" in Gnome-Terminal settings enabled AND ccsm "audible bell" enabled gnome-terminal does not produce sound from the following

$ tput bel
$ perl -e 'print "\a";'

And similar. Sound effects are enabled and turned to max volume.

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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

This started working when updating to kernel 3.2.0-90-generic

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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

This stopped working when downgrading to 3.2.0-30-generic

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