On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 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.
Why has PulseAudio author decided so?
Paul