found answer to missing beep control compiling kernel 3.1.5

[Kitty Litter]

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