bell

[Richard Horvitz]

> From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>
> Subject: Re: bell
> 
> Am So, den 03.10.2004 schrieb Richard Horvitz um 19:15:
> 
> > My system bell will not ring.  Right after installing fedora 2 my speaker 
> > would not work, adding some lines to /etc/modprobe.conf fixed that.  These 
> > lines are no longer needed for my sound card to work, maybe I have a newer 
> > kudzu now, after updating things?
> > If I do /sbin/modinfo pcspkr it tells me:
> > author:         Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at ucw.cz>
> > description:    PC Speaker beeper driver
> > license:        GPL
> > vermagic:       2.6.8-1.521smp SMP 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3
> > depends:
> > So it would appear the pcspkr module is installed.  But my understanding 
> > of this is very limited.  I have sound but no bell.
> 
> Run "sbin/lsmod | grep pcspkr". If that does not print out the pcspkr
> module loaded, then you'll have to load it. As root "modproble pcspkr".
> To make this happen automagically each boot create as root
> "/etc/rc.modules":
> 
> touch /etc/rc.modules
> chown root:root /etc/rc.modules
> chmod 755 /etc/rc.modules
> 
> with following content:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /sbin/modprobe -q pcspkr
> 
> Alexander
> 
/sbin/modprobe pcspkr makes it so /sbin/lsmod | grep pcspkr produces:
pcspkr                  7313  0 
rather than nothing, but still no bell rings.  I created the 
/etc/rc.modules as you suggested and then the bell rings once as the login 
screen comes up, but after logging in to kde there is no bell.  The bell 
now works with gnome though.  If I pick 'system tools'-'Terminal Program 
Super User Mode' I get a window where the bell works.  Just doing an 'su 
root' does not help though.  I have all the volume levels up in kmix.  On 
google I see mutterings about artsd doing something wrong with the bell, 
but I don't find any fixes.
  Thanks,
    Richard