The command 'beep' does not produce a sound
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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beep (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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beep (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 7.04 kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
man beep writes: "While it can be run quite happily on the command line, it’s intended place of residence is within shell/perl scripts, notifying the user when something interesting occurs... All options have default values, meaning that just typing ’beep’ will work." But this is not the case with my laptop computer MD97600.
Issuing the command 'beep' in a Gnome terminal or in a console does not produce anything.
root@MD97600:~# /bin/echo -e '\a' in a Gnome terminal produces an empty line and a short vibration of the terminal window but no sound.
root@MD97600:~# aplay /usr/share/
"Wiedergabe Wave '/usr/share/
^G in a Gnome terminal only produces a vibrating window but no sound.
Gnome main menu System > Preferences > Sounds > System beep > Assert system bell is asserted.
The command softbeep in terminal produces no sound but prints 'Spawning subshell.'
The command softbeep >2/dev/nul in terminal produces no sound but prints 'Spawning subshell', an empty line and waits for further input.
Changed in beep: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
This is more than likely a hardware configuration issue. You should check your mixer settings to ensure that the volume for PC speaker is not muted, and is turned up, if possible.