Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 181960
The bell/alarm character produces no sound when sent to a console terminal
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:23 EST
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:
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.
Have you tried the suggestions from comment 2? Please do so and post the resuls here...thanks!
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 :).
Closed due to lack of response. Please reopen when the requested information becomes availbale...thanks!