For anyone who might care: Starting with 2.6.35 the HDA driver honors the value of the SSID it gets from your soundcard. If HDA beeps are off in the bios then you don't get a beep control. I didn't know that if bios was set correctly the beeps from grub and probably everything else go through your soundcard. to read more about this goto http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1255326
