Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-10 Thread rhkramer
Just to provide an update -- the current status is that the beep is not occurring atm, but it has been just a little cooler. If I get a chance, I'll take that machine down and clean out any dust and such, or, if the beeping resumes I'll try some of the ideas suggested here. As an

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
they can emulate old > school IBM PC compatible motherboard speakers/buzzers. >From the log¹ for my Dell D430 laptop: "2010-04-23 One of the Dell chargers started to beep very quietly to itself. Although it was powered, the green light was out. Switching it on would make the green light co

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Jan Claeys
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 09:56 +, Curt wrote: > In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it > cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. Some on-board audio chips are wired up so that they can emulate old school IBM PC compatible motherboard speakers/buzzers. -- Jan Claeys (p

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
ard / mouse / molnitor for two computers (with a KVM) and get the beep on only one of them, and even when the KVM is switched to the other computer. I guess it could be the cables between the KVM and the (beeping) computer...

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
speaker in the case that (if you were building > your own) you had to connect. (And, so if there is no speaker, the BIOS > can't > signal an error?) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PC_speaker The computer often seems to make beep noises or other sounds at various times,

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 09:57:38 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 05:56:58 am Curt wrote: > > On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing > > > in my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very > > > s

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
Am 09.05.19 um 02:32 schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: > On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep > (through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep > that > used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don&

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 05:56:58 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing > > in my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very > > sporadic. It turned out to most likely be a warning that it was > >

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
as very sporadic. > It turned out to most likely be a warning that it was about to *CLICK* > off due to overheating.. > > $ sensors -f Sensors -f didnt work, so I had to install lm-sensors (which means sensors is not the source of the beep (you didn't say it was, but I guess

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing in > my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very sporadic. > It turned out to most likely be a warning that it was about to *CLICK* > off due to overheating.. > > $ sensor

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/8/19, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2019 20:32:49 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >>On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a >> beep >>(through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep >

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 8 May 2019 20:32:49 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep >(through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep that >used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I

Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-08 Thread rhkramer
On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep (through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep that used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I even have that speaker connected on this computer).

Re: beep works, speaker-test doesn't

2019-02-03 Thread deloptes
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > beep works, speaker-test doesn't. > beep(1) makes beeps right into the headphones. beep comes from pcspkr driver audio goes via alsa > speaker-test doesn't make any sound. > $ alsamixer looks horrible after installing PulseAudio. > lqqq

beep works, speaker-test doesn't

2019-02-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
beep works, speaker-test doesn't. beep(1) makes beeps right into the headphones. speaker-test doesn't make any sound. $ alsamixer looks horrible after installing PulseAudio. lqqq x Card: PulseAudio x Chip: PulseAudio x View: F3:[Playback x Item: Master something is wron

Re: Disable annoying charger beep on libreboot x200

2017-10-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:31:02PM +0200, Jonas Hedman wrote: > On 17-10-13 11:17, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Perhaps this is relevant to you: > > > > https://libreboot.org/docs/misc/#power-management-beeps-on-thinkpads > > > > HTH, cheers > >

Re: Disable annoying charger beep on libreboot x200

2017-10-16 Thread Jonas Hedman
On 17-10-13 11:17, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Perhaps this is relevant to you: > > https://libreboot.org/docs/misc/#power-management-beeps-on-thinkpads > > HTH, cheers > -- tomás Thank you for this! The solution didn't work out of the box but now I have somewhere to start and some googleable

Re: Disable annoying charger beep on libreboot x200

2017-10-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:17:24AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Jonas Hedman wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I have a libreboot x200 with libreboot running Stretch. When I plug and > > unplug the charger I get a very loud

Re: Disable annoying charger beep on libreboot x200

2017-10-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Jonas Hedman wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a libreboot x200 with libreboot running Stretch. When I plug and > unplug the charger I get a very loud and annoying beep and would like to > dis

Disable annoying charger beep on libreboot x200

2017-10-13 Thread Jonas Hedman
Hello list, I have a libreboot x200 with libreboot running Stretch. When I plug and unplug the charger I get a very loud and annoying beep and would like to disable this. Does anyone know how to do this? I see nothing in dmesg or systemctl when I unplug and my general and it doesn't seem to

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-05 Thread RavenLX
On 08/02/2017 10:38 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my laptop. The installation is full success without any problem except a little one - 'beep' does not

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-02 Thread davidson
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my laptop. The installation is full success without any problem except a little one - 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash scri

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
ould be nice. After a fresh > >>>> install, I have a bash script I run that installs all the apps I > >>>> use and configures them. Sometimes though, there are things that > >>>> a user needs to answer. Thus, if I want to have the script > >>&g

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Ralph Katz
bash script I run that installs all the apps I use and configures them. >>>> Sometimes though, there are things that a user needs to answer. Thus, if I >>>> want to have the script running and go do something else, I want to "beep" >>>> when it's

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Dejan Jocic
figures them. > > > Sometimes though, there are things that a user needs to answer. Thus, if I > > > want to have the script running and go do something else, I want to "beep" > > > when it's going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not &g

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread RavenLX
though, there are things that a user needs to answer. Thus, if I want to have the script running and go do something else, I want to "beep" when it's going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not work in Stretch so I ended up removing the part to install the "beep&q

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread RavenLX
, there are things that a user needs to answer. Thus, if I want to have the script running and go do something else, I want to "beep" when it's going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not work in Stretch so I ended up removing the part to install the "beep"

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread RavenLX
want to have the script running and go do something else, I want to "beep" when it's going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not work in Stretch so I ended up removing the part to install the "beep" package and use beep to alert the user. I have tried es

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 13:14:32 From: Juan R. de Silva To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 17:15:27 + (UTC) Resent-From: d

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:54:34 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Maybe modprobe pcspkr might be helpful too. Unfortunatelly it wasn't.

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
ngs that a user needs >> to answer. Thus, if I want to have the script running and go do >> something else, I want to "beep" when it's going to need attention by >> the user. I noticed this does not work in Stretch so I ended up >> removing the part to install

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Maybe modprobe pcspkr might be helpful too. On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 11:24:05 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jes

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
user needs to answer. Thus, if I > > want to have the script running and go do something else, I want to "beep" > > when it's going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not work > > in Stretch so I ended up removing the part to install the "beep"

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread Dejan Jocic
nning and go do something else, I want to "beep" > when it's going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not work > in Stretch so I ended up removing the part to install the "beep" package and > use beep to alert the user. I have tried escape codes v

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-01 Thread RavenLX
On 07/31/2017 05:21 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my laptop. The installation is full success without any problem except a little one - 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash scri

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-07-31 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:02:00 +, Dan Purgert wrote: > apt-cache search beep It's most certenly installed. Thanks anyway, I appreciate it as a joke. :-)

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-07-31 Thread Dan Purgert
Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > [...] > 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash > scripts. I had Jessie installed on the same laptop before and it worked > just fine. perhaps you need to install 'beep'? $ apt-cache search

Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-07-31 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my laptop. The installation is full success without any problem except a little one - 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash scripts. I had Jessie installed on the same laptop bef

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
If you're using Konsole, the beep capability was removed long ago for KDE4. I added to a bug about it on their Bugzilla and the developer stated that it would not be fixed. :-( - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fea

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 23:34 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 20:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > * On 2014 31 Jan 18:04 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 20:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2014 31 Jan 18:04 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > MiscBell=FALSE > > > > > > > > Set it to TRUE. > > > > > >

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How? [solved]

2014-02-01 Thread Paul E Condon
also 'aplay' from the alsa-utils package which would appear to > do the same. > > - Nate > Both work for me, and I have found a .wav file that is much less annoying than the traditional computer beep which I can't really hear anymore with my aging (81yr) ears. For anyo

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 07:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > a computer that doesn't beep just doesn't seem > right. :-) Amen to that :). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2014-02-01, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > > I enabled my beep with: > modprobe pcspkr snd-pcsp What kind of *beeping* beep have you got? One that squeaks through the internal speaker on the motherboard (pcspkr), or one that gushes out of your external speakers by way of

Re: Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Hi This page has some information about beep: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=49685 I enabled my beep with: modprobe pcspkr snd-pcsp I have added pcspkr and snd-pcsp to: /etc/modules You may also check this file to assure the beep is not black-listed: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
de contrariété__. > > > > On my machine there isn't a setting to enable/disable the beep by > > alsamixer. It seems to depend on the machine. I have found the beep presence to mostly be found on my laptops. It's not universally present, though. I also prefer having the

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 10:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:14 +, Curt wrote: > > (most people are desirous to turn the damn > > thing off and not on, but I possess __l'esprit de contrariété__. > > On my machine there isn't a settin

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2014-01-31, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying > attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but > now I want to ask about possibilities of getting the external > speakers, which I know are working for

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 16:29 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:02:16AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal > > > to issue

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 20:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 31 Jan 18:04 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > MiscBell=FALSE > > > > > > Set it to TRUE. > > > > ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc And now it beeps if I run $ print

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:02:16AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal > > to issue the beep? > > > > The relevant line is: > > > >

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 31 Jan 15:38 -0600, David Guntner wrote: > I forgot to mention: The "play" command is part of the SoX package, so > if you try running it and get a "not found" response, install sox. There is also 'aplay' from the alsa-utils package which would appear to do the same. - Nate -- "The

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 31 Jan 18:04 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal > > to issue the beep? > > > > The relevant line is: > > > > MiscBell=FALS

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal > to issue the beep? > > The relevant line is: > > MiscBell=FALSE > > Set it to TRUE. Neither my Arch nor my Linux install have got s

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Paul E Condon grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >> I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying >> attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but >> now I want to ask about p

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread David Guntner
Paul E Condon grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying > attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but > now I want to ask about possibilities of getting the external > speakers, which I know are wor

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140131_094852, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal to > issue the beep? > > The relevant line is: > > MiscBell=FALSE > > Set it to TRUE. You may have to enable the loading of the pcspkr kernel > module

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
Another good tip. I recall at some point having alsamixer show the PC speaker to be unmuted but yet cycling it through muting and then unmuting activated the beep. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Go Linux
On Thu, 1/30/14, Paul E Condon wrote: Subject: making my Wheezy beep. How? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:40 PM I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal to issue the beep? The relevant line is: MiscBell=FALSE Set it to TRUE. You may have to enable the loading of the pcspkr kernel module but likely not. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best o

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Doug
On 01/31/2014 02:26 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: /snip/ Do you have a PC speaker? What is a PC speaker? I have a woofer and two tweeters that produce sound for video clips from YouTube, but PC speaker must be something else? Yes. It's the thing that goes beep :D If you have one it'll

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:40:22PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the &

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
JFTR on my Arch install printf "\a" and printf "\7" do not work when running them in xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 but they cause a beep when using MATE terminal 1.6.2 instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 18:39, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> Why don't I get a beep with: >> >> echo -e \a > > Because the shell absorbs the \ and the echo command sees only the > letter a. Try this: > > echo -e '\a' > Good point. Getting the (system)

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-31 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Why don't I get a beep with: > > echo -e \a Because the shell absorbs the \ and the echo command sees only the letter a. Try this: echo -e '\a' -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Loïc Grenié
2014-01-31 Paul E Condon : > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the > computer issue a beep as it should acco

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 18:12, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140131_174326, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a >>> adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140131_174326, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > > bash script using sleep and echo, but

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the > computer issue a beep

making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the computer issue a beep as it should according to the man page. What special knowledge is

Re: watch and beep

2012-11-30 Thread Paweł Ch .
Thanks On 30 November 2012 12:26, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:31:33AM +, Paweł Ch. wrote: > >I would like to hear beep when command output "watch dig > @ns.domain.tdl > >domain.tdl soa" appear with string "2012113005". &

Re: watch and beep

2012-11-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:31:33AM +, Paweł Ch. wrote: >I would like to hear beep when command output "watch dig @ns.domain.tdl >domain.tdl soa" appear with string "2012113005". >Which command performs this task. How about: while true; do if dig

watch and beep

2012-11-30 Thread Paweł Ch .
Hi list, I would like to hear beep when command output "watch dig @ns.domain.tdl domain.tdl soa" appear with string "2012113005". Which command performs this task. Thanks

Re: Annoying Shutdown Beep

2012-07-17 Thread Go Linux
ay system beeps - especially the one when the greeter is ready /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false --- On Tue, 7/17/12, green wrote: > From: green > Subject: Re: Annoying Shutdown Beep > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 2:31 PM > Andrejs

Re: Annoying Shutdown Beep

2012-07-17 Thread green
Andrejs Igumenovs wrote at 2012-07-17 14:03 -0500: > Please help anyone to disable the silly shutdown beep ! You could try creating file /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf with contents: blacklist pcspkr signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Annoying Shutdown Beep

2012-07-17 Thread Andrejs Igumenovs
Please help anyone to disable the silly shutdown beep ! Tried several options, didn't help. Also disabling the speaker via the BIOS is not an option for me. - Andrejs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:38:30 -0800, Go Linux wrote: > --- On Thu, 12/8/11, Camaleón wrote: >> >> The only thing I've found is that when you stop gdm3 ("service gdm3 >> stop") and go to a tty, a "shutdown -r now" won't produce any sound so >

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-09 Thread afuentes
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 19:55 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Sorry... but is this *your* system? It seems there is a 'Beep' in the mixer: > > Simple mixer control 'Beep',0 >Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum >Playback channel

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-09 Thread afuentes
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 17:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > The beep started months ago¹ in testing (in that time there was GNOME3 > but no "gnome-shell") and came back again but still have not found a way > to silence it. Well, for me it started 4 months ago when i bought this com

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-08 Thread Go Linux
--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Camaleón wrote: > > The only thing I've found is that when you stop gdm3 > ("service gdm3 > stop") and go to a tty, a "shutdown -r now" won't produce > any sound so > I'm starting to think this loud beep is com

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:15:56 +0100, afuentes wrote: > when i manually use the wall command (or when i shutdown or halt > command) i hear a annoying very loud beep. Is there a way to shut it up? I wish there is a way :-) > the pcspkr mop is not loaded. the gnome consoles opened have th

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-07 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 07/12/2011 16:18, afuentes wrote: On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:54 -0300, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being called the function alarm(). As we

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-07 Thread Bob Proulx
console. You could be using the menu selection from xdm/gdm/kdm. You could be using the menu selection from one of the desktop session managers. All are going to eventually reboot the machine but prior to doing that they may be calling 'wall' or may be sending the beep themselves. Try

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-07 Thread afuentes
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:38 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > > What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion > > sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it > > being called the function alarm(

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-07 Thread afuentes
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:54 -0300, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion > sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being > called the function alarm(). > > As we said, disabling y

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion > sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it > being called the function alarm(). Sorry but actually SIGALRM relates to the program event signals and has

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Yes, it is important to remember that ALSA is not the only sound system for Linux, where either his ALSA is not configured to handle the pc beep or maybe another sound system is taking care of that. I'm not sure how gnome-volume-control handles sound sytems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 06/12/2011 14:54, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being called the function alarm(). As we said, disabling your pc beep disables this, as disabling onl

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being called the function alarm(). As we said, disabling your pc beep disables this, as disabling only the wall will not solve your problem (other programs will

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Those links i sent you are old links i had here, I thought that they were teaching how to disable the beep, but looking at them now make me feel like I sent you the wrong link. What I thought these links would show you is how to disable the beep using the ALSA mixer, as you were already told

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread afuentes
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:21 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Not sure if this helps, but simply muting the "Beep" entry with > aslamixer solved all beeping annoyances on my laptop. > > Lorenzo. Thank you for your response. I dont seem to have such option in alsamixe

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 05/12/2011 13:15, afuentes wrote: when i manually use the wall command (or when i shutdown or halt command) i hear a annoying very loud beep. Is there a way to shut it up? the pcspkr mop is not loaded. the gnome consoles opened have the beeping disabled as well in preferences... Does

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread afuentes
Im still not very good at reading straces, but this is the output of the command that triggers the beep in case it can helps to locate what it is :) greets! aL $ echo hola|sudo strace -f wall [sudo] password for afuentes: execve("/usr/bin/wall", ["wall"], [/* 17

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread afuentes
t wall sends this char ^G to the terminal, and this is the one that triggers the beep. Any kind soul has any idea how to fix this? my drilled head and spirit would thank them forever for more details, im on last testing under gnome greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
http://www.smartpixie.com/wiki/Tech/DebianTips.twiki.html http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4edcc124.3

How to let Alsa actually mix the PC speaker beep with other sounds?

2011-08-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello, I recently switched to playing music directly on my notebook instead of another computer somewhere else. This notebook runs Debian Testing with Xfce 4.8 and a self-compiled kernel 3.0. I can set the volume level of the system beep (which occurs, for example, if you open a terminal and

Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down

2011-07-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:16:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) >> > > > Hack gdm? :p >> > > >> > > Ha! :-) >> > > >> > > But this is indeed something coming from GMD (or from the GNOME >> > > side) because I get n

Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down

2011-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 13:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Forwarded Message > > > From: Camaleón > > > Subject: Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down > > > Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 11:22:46 + (UTC) > > > >

Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down

2011-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Forwarded Message > > From: Camaleón > > Subject: Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down > > Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 11:22:46 + (UTC) > > > > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:44:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >

Re: (Solved) Re: Disabling GNOME loud beep at shutting down

2011-07-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:44:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 08 iul 11, 15:44:50, Camaleón wrote: >> I finally could solved it by reducing the "beep" volume level from >> gnome volume control applet so it seems coming from here (if I mute the >> "beep&q

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