On 2014-01-31, Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > > 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. >
It's strange because I lost my internal speaker beep somewhere along the line; I started a thread here quite a few moons ago, but no one could say why my beep mysteriously vanished. Playing around looking for a solution, I unmuted the beep channel in alsamixer, which caused my beep to transit through my external speakers, when I had them turned on, a melodious, nearly institutional beep I didn't care for. So I just learned to live without any beeping (most people are desirous to turn the damn thing off and not on, but I possess __l'esprit de contrariété__. I also notice there exists the beep program for die-hard beep hackers: curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show beep <snip> Description: advanced pc-speaker beeper beep does what you'd expect: it beeps. But unlike printf "\a" beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow more granularity than one has otherwise. It is controlled completely through command line options. It's not supposed to be complex, and it isn't - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever else it gets hacked into) much more informative. Homepage: http://johnath.com/beep/ Happy beeping. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnlepeno.2d7.cu...@einstein.electron.org
