terminal bell pc speaker

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Jan 5 16:30:09 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Mike Zingale <zingale at gmail.com> said:
> Hi, I just installed Fedora 14 on my machine.  There is no beep
> through the pc speaker from terminal events.  This worked previously
> in Fedora 10 on this machine.  I tried loading the pcspkr module, but
> that did not fix the problem.  Any ideas on how to get the terminal
> bell/pc speaker working?

AFAIK there is no way to get the PC speaker to beep anymore in X; the
PulseAudio author decided nobody should use that anymore.  The best you
can do is enable the alert sound effect, assuming you have a sound
device in the computer and speakers connected.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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