Comment 24 for bug 210832

linux-2.6.24-19 resolved this loud-beep and message issue for me (I upgraded that soon after a hal(-info?) upgrade that *didn't* seem to fix the problem, and made a few other changes while rebooting, but I'm guessing it was the kernel upgrade that fixed it). The Xorg Synaptics issue is still present, listed under Launchpad Bug #104060 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/104060 )