RE: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-24 Thread Eric van der Paardt
-Original Message- > called "twinke-beeps," (GPL, all rights reserved) which proves that Sarge is > still a contender in state-of-the-art multimedia: > > beep -f 1000 -n -f 1000 -n -f 1500 -n -f 1500 -n -f 1700 -n -f 1700 -n -r > 2 -f 1500 -n -f 1350 -n -f 1350 -n -f 1300 -n -f 1300 -

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:55:09PM -0400, Marty wrote: [...] > After solving my own beep problems I wrote the following command > called "twinke-beeps," (GPL, all rights reserved) which proves that Sarge is > still a contender in state-of-the-art multimedia: > > beep -f 1000 -n -f 10

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: martyb> Did you try to "beep" as root? I grabbed the 'beep' package, installed it, and it worked! So, I can now add the invocation of /usr/bin/beep to the 'xalarm' cmmd line. I still wonder why "$ echo ^G" doesn't work in "terminal" windows ... something missing in /et

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Colin wrote: Marty wrote: Did you try to "beep" as root? (I use the program /usr/bin/beep for this test. The reason I ask is because I think once I had to be root to run "beep." I forget what the problem was, probably a permissions issue.) Man! Now that's being a bit paranoid! You need t

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Colin
Marty wrote: > Did you try to "beep" as root? (I use the program /usr/bin/beep for > this test. The reason I ask is because I think once I had to be root to > run "beep." I forget what the problem was, probably a permissions issue.) Man! Now that's being a bit paranoid! You need to be root t

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Kenneth Jacker
martyb> Did you try to "beep" as root? I grabbed the 'beep' package, installed it, and it worked! So, I can now add the invocation of /usr/bin/beep to the 'xalarm' cmmd line. I still wonder why "$ echo ^G" doesn't work in "terminal" windows ... something missing in /etc/terminfo/*? Thanks,

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: martyb> Possibly because PC Speaker support (INPUT_PCSPKR) is not martyb> enabled in your kernel or the corresponding module is not martyb> loaded. Thanks for the suggestion! I installed the 'pcspkr' module using 'modconf', but still hear nothing. Other ideas? Than

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Kenneth Jacker
martyb> Possibly because PC Speaker support (INPUT_PCSPKR) is not martyb> enabled in your kernel or the corresponding module is not martyb> loaded. Thanks for the suggestion! I installed the 'pcspkr' module using 'modconf', but still hear nothing. Other ideas? Thanks, -Kenneth -- To

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Sonntag 22 Mai 2005 19:49 schrieb Marty: >  (Why the kernel > configuration routines consider the PC speaker an "input device" is a > separate mystery, unless it contributed to your not finding this > option and consequently not running this driver.) Good question. It took me also some times to

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-22 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: [sarge; 2.6.8-2-686; KDE; SBL!] I can't get my PC speaker to "beep" in a "console" or "Konsole" session ... I guess there are worse problems! ;-) Anyway, this, $ echo -v-g produces no sound. Neither does 'xalarm' with the "-alarmaudio beep" option. I've enable