Re: PB G4, sound and speaker beeps

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> [2007-09-11 18:35:39 CEST]:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> >  Only, I can't get any of those pcspkr beeps, like printf "\a".
> 
> >From the package description softbeep should do what you want. But I
> can't get it to work on my machine currently. Don't know why...

 No, it doesn't.  Having to use LD_PRELOAD means that it doesn't work
out-of-the-box for the complete system, unless one would LD_PRELOAD
init.  It is a crude workaround for testing, but nothing more.

 So long,
Rhonda