terminal bell pc speaker

[Mike Zingale]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Chris Adams writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> That only works in metacity. Does not work in Compiz.
>

unfortunately, I don't have any sound device on this machine -- it's a
server motherboard.  There is a PC speaker, so I liked having that
beep give the alerts.  Seems strange that they would remove this basic
functionality.  I'll think about filling a bug report.