how to get beep working?

I have a laptop, I've installed the beep package. I turned every sound to full, and I do this:

$ beep

But I can't hear any beeping sound. What am I missing? I just need to run the beep when a script is finished.

LanceBaynes

Posted 2011-01-13T11:39:18.067

Reputation: 3 510

If all else fails, then maybe the echo -e '\a' > /dev/console alternatives from Remotely make the computer beep on built-in speaker can help.

– Arjan – 2011-01-13T11:59:37.167

I've corrected the spelling and formatting. You don't need a <br> after every line. Press Enter twice or include two spaces at the end of a line. – nyuszika7h – 2011-02-05T15:46:56.397

Answers

Ubuntu had an issue where some installs would beep on shutdown causing much annoyance. Their solution was to blacklist pcspkr for all installs. That may be what Fedora did. Take a look through your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (or Fedora equivalent) to see if it has an entry and try running modprobe pcspkr to make sure it's installed.

charlesbridge

Posted 2011-01-13T11:39:18.067

Reputation: 1 119

Nice, that might explain why modprobe pcspkr was mentioned in an unrelated question too!

– Arjan – 2011-01-13T12:56:13.867

As of Fedora 17, I had to install xkbset and run xkbset b to enable the Audible Bell as it was disabled by default. (That, and make sure the kernel module pcspkr is loaded. The beep rpm puts a /etc/modprobe.d/beep.conf in place - you'll want to un-comment the appropriate line in that and/or run modprobe pcspkr if you haven't already.)

I hope that helps,

Adam