no beep any more

[Eduardo Morras]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:48:46 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yesterday I realized that my Acer C720 does not issue any beep, for
> example in terminals or on alpha console with 'printf "\7"' 
> The sound general is working, for example playing something with
> mplayer or the jingle on KDE start. I'm not aware of having installed
> something during the last days. Is this somehow configureable with
> sysctl?
> 
> $ kbdcontrol -b normal
> 
> does not help.
> 
> ANy ideas?

What's the output of 

%mixer speaker

Beeps don't use pcm.

Some audio and video players modify mixer values directly to control volume, instead using alsa/oss/pulse calls. Perhaps you used one of them.

Anything weird on dmesg -a output?

As a workaround, if you are using xterm under X, Ctrl+MIddle Mouse button shows a menu where you can enable visual beep. Other terminals could have similar mode.


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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg at yahoo.es>