On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:50:41PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> 1. switch off console beep (internal pc speaker) in gnome-terminal 
> (or alltogether). Or let gnome-terminal issue a sound to esd / 
> /dev/dsp / whatever, so as to let one control volume.

If you use the bash shell add "set bell-style none" to /etc/inputrc 
to turn the beeps off. see man bash for more information

> 
> 2. let the internal speaker beep through a remote command (so that I 
> can login from remote, and let the speaker beep until a person sits 
> down to the computer, logs in and answers my 'talk' request).
> 

You could use ssh to execute a remote shell script.

regards,

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