No Beeps

[Baryon]

This is perhaps not an urgent issue, but I was quite surprised that the simple 'beep' program doesn't work for me. I get no errors and no output - audible or otherwise. I have tried it as root, as a normal user, on a tty console, and in an xterm, yet I get no beeps.

I know I must have a PC speaker because the PC beeps at least twice when it boots (for the POST).

Am I just being silly?

I'm on Gentoo Linux, by the way.

[Gertrude]

Originally posted by Baryon
but I was quite surprised that the simple 'beep' program doesn't work for me.


What is this "simple 'beep' program"?

[Baryon]

http://www.johnath.com/beep/README

[sharth]

hmm... the only thing that comes to mind is to try running this program first.

xset b on

[Baryon]

No luck. I have just realised that my kernel doesn't have the PC speaker input module enabled... that must be it. Thanks anyway.

[je_fro]

it's hard to find too:

Device Drivers --->
Input device support --->
Misc x x
<M> PC Speaker support