Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 10:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:14 +0000, Curt wrote:
> > (most people are desirous to turn the damn
> > thing off and not on, but I possess __l'esprit de contrariété__.
>
> On my machine there isn't a setting to enable/disable the beep by
> alsamixer.
>
> I prefer to have the beep enabled, since I don't use desktop sound. When
> doing audio productions, the sound card should be used for the audio
> production only, but important notifications should be allowed to beep,
> at least when not doing audio productions. Desktop sound could be
> dangerous for the speakers and ears, because an averaged level for audio
> productions does vary and so desktop sound easily could become much too
> loud, when the audio production is finished.
>
> Even if I wouldn't do audio productions, the beep is a notification
> sound I'm used to, because even the BIOS does use it and no external
> gear, amp and speakers is needed.
>
> OT:
> I'm forced to use crappy energy-saving bulbs and the politicians likely
> waste energy by the amps and speakers for desktop sound, not to mention
> that the German SPD politician co-responsible for this is very fat, and
> likely wasting much energy by the foot chain, from growing to cooking.
^^^^^ :D
> Fat people are ok, as long as they aren't politicians teaching other
> people to tighten the belts.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmar_Gabriel
>
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