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Re: beep in console



--- Scetbon Cyril <cyril.scetbon@free.fr> wrote: 

> I run scripts in my crontab but i'm not able to generate a beep in 
> console mode.
> I tried echo -e '\a' but no success while I can use sound.
> Is there a pbm with my PC Speaker ?

pbm? Oh, I think you missed some letters there. I would think your kernel
is lacking PC-speaker support. For me, I have:

[n6tadam@station markup]$ grep -i spkr /boot/config-$(uname -r)
CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y

defined, which you should check.

-- Thomas Adam

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