Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 20140131_094852, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal to
> issue the beep?
> 
> The relevant line is:
> 
> MiscBell=FALSE
> 
> Set it to TRUE.  You may have to enable the loading of the pcspkr kernel
> module but likely not.
> 
> - Nate

Thanks to everybody. The responses were a real education for me. I got
beep to work. Some suggestions worked for me, others not so much. The
beep that I hear from my computer is pretty much at my threshold for
bearing. There is no indication in any of the man pages that there is
a loudness control in the PC internal sound generator, and what little
I've learned of the technological history of the internal sound maker,
there is little reason to believe that there is such loudness control.

I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying
attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but
now I want to ask about possibilities of getting the external
speakers, which I know are working for videos to work for playing a
recording of a beep sound.  What I'm trying to have is a way to alert
me to stop working on my computer and go do something else like, for
instance, a doctor appointment.

Because this is really a new question, I'll give some more information
about my set up: I'm running Wheezy with Xwindows, Xfce desktop but
with gnome-terminal, not xfce-terminal. The computer is HP dual core
pentium several years old. I do my email with fetchmail, procmail,
mutt, and msmtp, so I have very little familiarity with email systems
that include an integrated calendar and contact database. It might 
seem goofy to install such a monster just to get a warning beep for
an upcoming appointment, but if it can make a noise at a programmed
time in the future, I'd like to know about it.

Any suggestions?
Again, thanks to everyone.



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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net