Bug 181960

Summary: The bell/alarm character produces no sound when sent to a console terminal
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: arch harris <service>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: jbaron, k.georgiou
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Description arch harris 2006-02-17 22:54:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
  When sent to a console terminal, the bell/alarm character does not produce any
  sound.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
  Everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute: echo -e '\a'
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
  No sound

Expected results:
  A beep sound

Additional info:
Comment 2 Neil Horman 2006-05-04 14:05:30 UTC 
Um, most terminals suppress the bell sound when that scan code is received (due
to the horrible annoying sound it makes :) ).  xterms I think eat the bell
universally (although this may be changeable in the termcap for vt100 consoles),
but they do allow you to redirect the character to a visual bell via the
shift-rightmouse menu.  Konsole has a bell configuration menu that defaults to
off, but can be set to 'system notification' to play the bell tone through the
speakers.
Comment 3 John W. Linville 2006-05-05 14:54:15 UTC 
Have you tried the suggestions from comment 2?  Please do so and post the 
resuls here...thanks!
Comment 4 Kostas Georgiou 2006-08-05 11:39:47 UTC 
Isn't this because the pcspkr kernel module doesn't get loaded by default? I had
a few users complaining about this in my systems (which means that they don't
think the sound is annoying :).
Comment 5 John W. Linville 2006-10-12 15:09:52 UTC 
Closed due to lack of response.  Please reopen when the requested information 
becomes availbale...thanks!