Hi Friedhelm, thanks for the debugging. Would it be possible for you to run "xset q | grep bell" in terminal, for both cases? That should report somthing like: ---- bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 ---- where the first number is "volume" as percentage, the second the frequency, and the third beep duration in milliseconds. You may set those with "xset b <volume> <frequency> <duration>" or a simple "xset b on" or "xset b off" Perhaps the difference is in that setting, which then might be due to a default setting difference for xorg (as a side function of the patch). regards, Ralph.