[Linux-users] System Bell/Notification

[C M Reinehr]

On Thursday 30 August 2007 11:09, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007, C M Reinehr wrote:
> >I'm having what, at first appearance, is a simple problem, but one that
> >doesn't seem to have a simple answer--at least not one that I've been able
> > to find and simple answers are my specialty. ;-)
> >
> >Last week I completed a completely new installation of Debian Etch
> > (stable) on a desktop PC. A critical application is rxvt, a terminal
> > emulation program, which allows the user to connect to our accounting
> > system which is written to use simple, dumb terminals for I/O. An
> > important feature is the use of the system bell to notify the user of
> > important events (of an accounting nature).
> >
> >Well, everything on this new PC works, except the system bell. We use KDE
> > and get all of the usual sounds when logged into a user session. KDE has
> > a system of notifications which causes different sounds to be played to
> > notify the user of different events and they work. All the other usual
> > suspects work, mplayer, flash plugin, etc. Just not the system bell
> > notification.
>
> ...
>
> >So, anybody got a clue? If not, my next resort will just be to carefully
> >reinstall the whole damned system.
>
> What happens if you send a ctrl-g character to the terminal?
> This is the BEL ascii character which should generate a beep.
>
> Most of the times I've had problems hearing beeps on my desktop
> system it's been because I have all sound going through the
> speakers and had the volume turned way down.
>
> Bill

	That's primarily the way I've been testing. Open a console session, switch to 
a virtual terminal, etc. and type `echo -e '\a\a\a'`. All I get is a blank 
line and silence.

	Also, the first thing I checked was mixer settings with alsamixer, and the 
volume settings are up because I can hear the usual system notification 
sounds from KDE.

cmr

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