Where's My Alert Bell
Wayne Steenburg
w.steenburg at myactv.net
Sun Apr 18 00:46:56 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 18:58 -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> First time caller and all that. I checked the archives; nothing
> immediately relevant came up in the search page.
>
> I'm running Fedora Core Test 2.
>
> Question: How do I actually *hear* the alert bell? The standard alert
> bell, as generated by the C '\a' escape sequence, or by running "echo
> $'\a'" under bash.
>
> I'm running Gnome. All I see is the window border blink, which makes
> sense, considering that Sound Preferences "System Bell -> Visual
> feedback -> Flash window titlebar" is selected.
>
> However, "Sound an audible bell" is also selected, and I hear nothing.
>
> I do have my speakers set up, and I can play ogg files normally, so I
> don't think it's a problem with my speaker setup.
>
> Ideas?
>
> - Jon
>
Try "modprobe pcspkr". If that does the trick you have to add "/sbin/
modprobe pcspkr" to your /etc/rc.local.
Wayne Steenburg
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