RE: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-24 Thread Eric van der Paardt
-Original Message- called twinke-beeps, (GPL, all rights reserved) which proves that Sarge is still a contender in state-of-the-art multimedia: beep -f 1000 -n -f 1000 -n -f 1500 -n -f 1500 -n -f 1700 -n -f 1700 -n -r 2 -f 1500 -n -f 1350 -n -f 1350 -n -f 1300 -n -f 1300 -n -f

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Kenneth Jacker
martyb Did you try to beep as root? I grabbed the 'beep' package, installed it, and it worked! So, I can now add the invocation of /usr/bin/beep to the 'xalarm' cmmd line. I still wonder why $ echo ^G doesn't work in terminal windows ... something missing in /etc/terminfo/*? Thanks, Marty,

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Colin
Marty wrote: Did you try to beep as root? (I use the program /usr/bin/beep for this test. The reason I ask is because I think once I had to be root to run beep. I forget what the problem was, probably a permissions issue.) Man! Now that's being a bit paranoid! You need to be root to make

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Colin wrote: Marty wrote: Did you try to beep as root? (I use the program /usr/bin/beep for this test. The reason I ask is because I think once I had to be root to run beep. I forget what the problem was, probably a permissions issue.) Man! Now that's being a bit paranoid! You need to

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: martyb Did you try to beep as root? I grabbed the 'beep' package, installed it, and it worked! So, I can now add the invocation of /usr/bin/beep to the 'xalarm' cmmd line. I still wonder why $ echo ^G doesn't work in terminal windows ... something missing in

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:55:09PM -0400, Marty wrote: [...] After solving my own beep problems I wrote the following command called twinke-beeps, (GPL, all rights reserved) which proves that Sarge is still a contender in state-of-the-art multimedia: beep -f 1000 -n -f 1000 -n

No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[sarge; 2.6.8-2-686; KDE; SBL!] I can't get my PC speaker to beep in a console or Konsole session ... I guess there are worse problems! ;-) Anyway, this, $ echo CNTRL-vCNTRL-g produces no sound. Neither does 'xalarm' with the -alarmaudio beep option. I've enabled it via 'alsamixer',

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: [sarge; 2.6.8-2-686; KDE; SBL!] I can't get my PC speaker to beep in a console or Konsole session ... I guess there are worse problems! ;-) Anyway, this, $ echo CNTRL-vCNTRL-g produces no sound. Neither does 'xalarm' with the -alarmaudio beep option. I've

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Sonntag 22 Mai 2005 19:49 schrieb Marty:  (Why the kernel configuration routines consider the PC speaker an input device is a separate mystery, unless it contributed to your not finding this option and consequently not running this driver.) Good question. It took me also some times to

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Kenneth Jacker
martyb Possibly because PC Speaker support (INPUT_PCSPKR) is not martyb enabled in your kernel or the corresponding module is not martyb loaded. Thanks for the suggestion! I installed the 'pcspkr' module using 'modconf', but still hear nothing. Other ideas? Thanks, -Kenneth -- To

Re: No Beep from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: martyb Possibly because PC Speaker support (INPUT_PCSPKR) is not martyb enabled in your kernel or the corresponding module is not martyb loaded. Thanks for the suggestion! I installed the 'pcspkr' module using 'modconf', but still hear nothing. Other ideas?