> This is what I had to do to enable the beep under: > Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 > Cygwin.dll 1.3.22 > > It seems that cygwin from 1.3.21 uses the windows "default beep" sound. I > wasn't able to set the default beep with the control panel "sounds > and audio devices" applet until I edited the registry adding a key: > My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default > > After doing this I could then use the control panel applet to set a sound > for "default beep". >
Lev, you are a GOD. I've had no beep at work for ages now, and that did the trick. DING DING DIDIDIDIDIDIDING!!! My coworkers hate me once again. ;-) > Doing a quick google it seems that this is a common problem with windows > xp - somehow it occasionally (and randomly, by all accounts) "loses" the > default beep, usually during sound driver installation. "Hello, my name is Bill Gates. I have been the richest person in the world for like a decade now, yet I cannot get my company's product's most critical data storage subsystem to behave in a deterministic manner. Nor have I been able to find a competent hair stylist. Yet I am still the richest man in the world. Makes no sense, does it?" -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
