PC speaker does not speak

[Jim Cornette]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>
>>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>
>>>> Even after modprobing pcspkr (and verifying that it's loaded, via 
>>>> lsmod), I can't seem to make my laptop squawk.  "echo -e '\\007'", 
>>>> neither in a terminal window, nor or any one of the ALT-VTs, seems 
>>>> to have any effect.
>>
>>
>> I don't know the CLI equivalent. If you click on the volume control 
>> properties and then highlight the pc speaker choice, echo -e \\007 
>> will result in a beep. I messed with the settings a moment ago after 
>> the posting related to the volume settings.
>> There is a slide control to set the pc speaker volume on the open 
>> volume  control.
> 
> That's interesting, because the hardware has no possiblity
> of actually changing the volume. It's a bit port with a
> timer channel attached.
> 
> Mike

My beep is through the sound card. I had to adjust it once and it was 
all that was needed. Without adjusting the volume control initially, I 
did not get a beep when trying to echo \\007. I tried post-configuration 
without needing to do anything more than modprobe pcspkr.

Jim


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