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Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm



On Vi, 21 ian 11, 11:51:07, Joe Riel wrote:
> 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

And does it beep? Under xfce4 this does produce a beep but not the 
/usr/bin/beep one and nothing at all under lxde. See #610190.

> 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.

Maybe you have issues with the "digital beep". Do you have a "Digital 
Beep" and a "Beep" slider in alsamixer? Try muting/unmuting one or the 
other.

Regards,
Andrei
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