[Linux-users] System Bell/Notification

[C M Reinehr]

On Thursday 30 August 2007 11:04, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sorry if this suggestion is stupid, but does the system bell work as you
> boot the box?  You're sure that it actually has a speaker connected to
> the bell plug on the MB?

	Not stupid at all. I should have clarified this. There is no speaker
in the PC. I think the way this is supposed to work is that that calls to the 
speaker are intercepted and redirected to the sound card. I know that the 
sound card works, but for some reason the redirection of the system bell to 
the sound card is not working. Which makes me suspect that the problem lies 
with all those alias statements in /etc/modules... But, I haven't been able 
to figure out what's missing/mis-configured.

cmr
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