PC speaker does not speak

[Mike McCarty]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> 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 

Ah, but that is not what is usally meant by the term "PC speaker".
That is the thing that "beeps" after the BIOS has done POST.

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Mike
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