Hello world!\n I've unmasked/emerged GNOME 2.10 (Yeah!), there is a little problem (I don't know why), when internal speaker beep (for example for tab completition), the screen blink (go black for a millisecond, and after return normal). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: ** For example ** 1. Press <TAB> in a terminal, until internal speaker beep Actual Results: The screen beep Expected Results: Beep, but not blinking :) *** emerge info *** bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 11 2005, 12:45:50)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.utf8" LC_ALL="it_IT.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aac aalib acpi alsa apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cups curl directfb divx4linux doc dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode examples exif fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber java javascript jpeg libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mime ming mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline real rtc sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tga tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd videos wmf xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
go to Desktop->Prefs->Sound and make sure Visual Feedback isn't checked under the System Bell tab
and close... this is not a bug, this an accessibility feature (you know, deaf ppl).
OK, scuse, BTW it is strange.