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The subject says it all. Well, almost all. I wanted irssi (I'm using it in conjunction with bitlbee) to beep audibly, but all I was getting was a visual bell. That was in GNU screen, but I tried 'echo ^G' in screen, a plain xterm, and vc/1 directly but to no avail. Needless to say, setting 'vbell off' for screen didn't solve the problem. I loaded pcspkr, and I tried 'xset b on', but neither solved the problem. Do I have to edit terminfo or something like that (and if so, how)? Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance.
Last edited by dsr (2008-06-22 03:53:32)
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I'm pretty much in your situation. I'd like to use an the beep for irc notification, but I can't get it to produce any sound in urxvt. I could use irssi scripts to play a sound instead, but it's annoying. The fact that the system bell is usually so annoying, it's doubly annoying that I can't get it to work when I want it
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I've got this problem as well and would very much get a solution to this (imo) problem. Sure, it's annoying some times but as the previous poster stated, it's more annoying when you can't get it to work when you want it. Does anyone have a good solution for this?
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In my alsamixer there's a control named 'PC Speak'. Have you tried unmuting it?
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OMG. Now I feel very stupid. I (ofc) tried everything in alsamixer and unmuted everything to try it. Now I noticed that the volume for PC Speak was set to 0. I just had to change that and then get it to work. Easy mistake but thanks a million!
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That's strange. When I run alsamixer, there's no item PC Speak even with pcspkr loaded.
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Just for clarification - if you want to let echo beep with \a, you need to call it with the parameter -e to enable the interpretation of backslash escapes.
e.g
echo -e "\aBeep!"
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Turns out I had completly missed the volume meter in alsamixer. Thanks, it's working as it should now.
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I've got the same issue as dsr. No sound levels for pcspkr. I've got the snd-hda-intel driver, how about you dsr?
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I also have snd_hda_intel.
I think I found the culprit: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs … 40828.html
Last edited by dsr (2008-09-30 16:15:35)
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That does sound like the issue. I will do some testing to confirm once work slows down and I can break out my laptop.
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Just for the note: Same issue here. I'm using snd_hda_intel.
Available Interfaces in alsamixer -V all:
Master, PCM, Mic Jack, Capture, Internal
Bell works fine in Grub
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