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Operating Systems Linux Slackware System audible beep Post 302483371 by Corona688 on Sunday 26th of December 2010 03:44:16 PM
Old 12-26-2010
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Originally Posted by slak0
Corona688 THANX. The problem is with #1 apparently since I had taken care of 2-3. So are you saying for #1 that I can only invoke a beep from a virtual console using echo command and must use xset in an X-window?
xterms are virtual consoles too. But only a raw text terminal, like you get with ctrl-alt-f1, is handled directly by the kernel in a way to enable console beeps by default afaik.

If you have working PC beeps this should work from any console: sudo echo -e '\a' > /dev/console

The beep utility I suggested would also work.

There may also be ways to tell X to use console beeps that I'm unaware of.
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I have (#4?) P C Speak unmuted and set to 80% in alsamixer -c2 is that what you meant by enabling the channel?
Yes.
 

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conspy

CONSPY(1)							      conspy								 CONSPY(1)

NAME

       conspy - virtual console spy tool

SYNOPSIS

       conspy [ options ] [ console ]

DESCRIPTION

       Conspy  allows the user to take control of a Linux virtual console.  The user can see what is displayed on the console and their keystrokes
       are sent to it.

       To exit from conspy press the escape key three times in quick succession.

COMMAND LINE

       -V, --version
	      Print the program's version and exit.

       -v, --viewonly
	      Don't send keystrokes to the virtual console.

       console
	      If supplied, console must be a number in the range 1 .. 63, corresponding to the virtual console device /dev/tty1 .. /dev/tty63.	If
	      not supplied the currently active virtual console is opened and tracked.

LIMITATIONS

       Conspy will not pass keystrokes to a virtual console whose keyboard is configured to send scan codes.  X configures its keyboard like this.
       If the terminal does not have at least 64 colours no colour will be displayed.  Conspy ignores the mouse.  Conspy  may  display	some  non-
       ASCII characters incorrectly.  Conspy does not handle displays larger than 16000 characters (eg 200 rows x 80 columns).

       Conspy  depends	on terminfo and curses working correctly for your terminal, and sometimes they don't.  Konsole is/was one example of where
       they don't.  Typing control-L will redraw the screen, which usually fixes the mess created.  It also sends a control-L to the virtual  con-
       sole, of course.

FILES

       /dev/ttyX, /dev/vc/X
	      The characters typed are sent to this device.  The latter is for devfs. It is only used if the former does not exist.

       /dev/vcsaX, /dev/vcc/aX
	      The display of the virtual console is read from here.  The latter is for devfs. It is only used if the former does not exist.

AUTHOR

       Russell Stuart, <russell-conspy@stuart.id.au>.

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