pings with noise

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 10 21:04:53 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 14:28 -0400, Alan J. Gagne wrote:
> > According to the man page whenever you use the -a option on the ping
> > command as in:
> > ping -a ip-address
> > each ping return should cause a noise to be generated.
> >
> > I can't seem to get that too happen. What could be wrong?
> 
> I just tried this on Fedora14 and it works.
> You may want check your sound preferences to make sure the alert volume 
> is up and not muted.
> 
> Alan

That is the firwst thisng I lookesw at. Alert vollume is not muted nor
is it zero. I also checked enable window and button sounds.

But the sounds in ping do not happen. Any other ideas?
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