Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

[Joe Riel <jriel@maplesoft.com>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:02:52 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Vi, 21 ian 11, 07:14:25, Joe Riel wrote:
> > 
> > >     beep
> > 
> > That works; as expected the sound comes through the internal
> > speakers.
> 
> Did you also try 'beep -e `tty`'? See beep(1) section "IOCTL
> WACKINESS" if it fails.

I get 
$ beep -e `tty`
ioctl: Invalid argument
ioctl: Invalid argument

As corrected elsewhere, the sound from calling beep
comes out of the external speakers.  The sound I'm
not hearing should come from the internal MB speaker.


-- 
Joe Riel