I don't know why, but when I issue echo -e '\a' or beep. I get only some sound, set in my OS (Ubuntu Karmic). I tried to run these on Lenovo Y510KA and Lenovo S10-2. Is there another way to make my laptops beep?..
I don't know why, but when I issue echo -e '\a' or beep. I get only some sound, set in my OS (Ubuntu Karmic). I tried to run these on Lenovo Y510KA and Lenovo S10-2. Is there another way to make my laptops beep?..
Hello I am using Debian Lenny.
You can directly write something to your sound device which in my case is /dev/dsp (same in yours for ubuntu , I feel)
Code:
echo 'blah blah blah....' > /dev/dsp
You will hear different patterns of sound for different inputs.
I have tried everything with sounds on Slackware and after over a decade am at the end of it.
I have uncommented /sbin/modprobe pcspkr in rc.modules.
I have commented blacklist pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
I have set bell-style audible in /etc/inputrc
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i recently installed realtek sound driver software in my system,
but after installing it,the speakers are not working....
I'm using fedora 13(x86_64).
i just want to make my system speak,like before....
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I wanted to compress a directory which I did with:
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Hi,
I'm moniroting numerous logs in my new job (tail -f JOE.log | grep ALERT) and I want to be able to make the Terminal BEEP when ever something comes up.
Is this something I can do easily?
Any help with the above (or an alternative) would be appreciated, so I can stop staring at the... (1 Reply)
I need to know how to turn off the beep in my unix environment. I tried with the Common Desktop Environment on solaris but it didn't work. I used to know the environment variable to set but I have forgotten it. (1 Reply)
hiho,
who has an idea how i can tell my shell that it should not beep on errors or when i'm using the TAB in bash to complete
noone needs to know when i make mistakes ;-)
solaris 9 (SPARC)
bash 2.05
thx a lot
Preßy (1 Reply)
