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Re: How do I ring my bell?

Ram — Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:57 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:57 am

Rhakios wrote:

Essentially, the problem is that Mark Shuttleworth wants your computer to go Bongggg!!!, like a Mac does on startup. However, as he can't achieve this, he's had them disable the bell.

Of course, this might be entirely untrue.

Then it could just as easy be true, since I keep having to re-install alsa after every kernel update as sound only work via head phones not the speakers, also effecting my netbook now with Mint 8 and the fix I use for my laptop doesnee work Jimmy.

Re: How do I ring my bell?

Rhakios — Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:58 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:58 pm

Essentially, the problem is that Mark Shuttleworth wants your computer to go Bongggg!!!, like a Mac does on startup. However, as he can't achieve this, he's had them disable the bell.

Of course, this might be entirely untrue.

Re: How do I ring my bell?

kev — Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:01 pm

Author: kev

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:01 pm

I have now found out that in Ubuntu:

The missing PC bell is a BIG issue;
more than that: it is a thoroughly disgraceful mess, the likes of which M$ users niether have nor will EVER have to put up with.

Read this ubuntu thread from post #79 onwards.

Re: How do I ring my bell?

kev — Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:09 pm

Author: kev

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:09 pm

Well, thanks for your ideas.
Although they didn't work, they did give me ideas for searching the 'net.

The answer in Mandriva is to do the following as Root:

Code:

modprobe pcspkr

and then Ctrl^G and your ideas do work.

Also:

Code:

xset -b

turns it off; and then:

Code:

xset b

turns it back on again.

Unfortunately, I am using Knoppix mostly {kernel 2.6.19} and modprobe gives a FATAL error message.
Ubuntu will load the module, but the bell remains silent.

All of which has overtones of M$.

Re: How do I ring my bell?

MartyBartfast — Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:13 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:13 pm

echo -e \\a

works in bash.

Re: How do I ring my bell?

Ram — Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:28 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:28 pm

You can ring Solaris' bell with

Code:

echo \\a

Thats with ksh for the shell.

Re: How do I ring my bell?

Rhakios — Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:55 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:55 pm

Doesn't beep do that? Sadly this PC doesn't have an internal speaker, so I can't test it. You might need to install beep, but it's found in most repos I've seen.

How do I ring my bell?

kev — Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:44 pm

Author: kev

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:44 pm

Hello

I want to write a script that will ring the PC's bell under certain conditions.

The bell works at Boot-time, so I know that it is OK.

I have tried the Konsole:
Settings > Bell > set to system bell

and then echoing 0x07 as well as \a

I have also tried echoing 0x07 and \a in an ordinary { Ctrl-Alt-F2 } terminal.
but it's silent.

What will make it ring please?