Mandriva 2009.1:PC Speaker system beep not working

[Guest mpward]

The PC speaker is not working: when I run

echo "\a"

in an xterm or konsole there is no beep.

 

lsmod shows that the pcspkr module is installed:

pcspkr                  2268  0 

 

The speaker beeps on startup and shutdown.

 

"xset q" says:

bell percent:  100    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  50

 

"xrdb -query" says:

XTerm*audibleBell:      true

 

kmixer has the PC Speaker volume at 100%

 

Clicking on the "test" button in:

System Settings -> Notification -> System bell

does produce a beep!

 

Any ideas?

 

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

[Greg2]

I believe that you need to use the -e option

echo -e "\a"

However that's not the problem, because that doesn't work either.

 

I'd suggest that you take a look at this revision: revision 347509

 

That revision may be your problem, but I'm not sure. I would also suggest that you file a bug report on this.

 

Welcome aboard! :)

[Guest mpward]

Thanks for the reply.

 

/bin/echo requires the -e option, but I am using tcsh which has an echo builtin which interpolates backslash-escaped characters by default.

 

I took this line out of /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa_default to see if it made any difference (it didn't):

# Fix excessive loud beep on intel hda: #45386
       |PC\ Beep

As I said, the beep works on the console, it also works if I press Control-Alt-F1 and login to /dev/tty1

 

The files in $HOME/.kde4/share/config have the following references to "bell":

kaccessrc:[bell]
kaccessrc:ArtsBell=false
kaccessrc:SystemBell=true
kaccessrc:VisibleBell=false
kaccessrc:VisibleBellColor=255,0,0
kaccessrc:VisibleBellInvert=true
kaccessrc:VisibleBellPause=500
kdeglobals:UseSystemBell=true
konsole.notifyrc:[Event/BellInvisible]
konsole.notifyrc:[Event/BellVisible]

 

I can get konsole to run the command:

/bin/echo -e "\a" > /dev/console

when it wants to ring the bell (via Settings -> Notifications).

There isn't an option to use the system bell for notifications here!

 

Also, this doesn't work with xterm (my preferred terminal).

[coverup]

Configure your desktop -> Notifications -> System Bell -> check use system bell instead of notifications. Now the bell works in emacs, but not in konsole. In KDE 3, there used to be an option yo use the system bell, I cannot see it anymore :(