Once upon a time, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Am Mittwoch, den 05.01.2011, 10:30 -0600 schrieb Chris Adams: > > Once upon a time, Mike Zingale <zingale@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > > Hi, I just installed Fedora 14 on my machine. There is no beep > > > through the pc speaker from terminal events. This worked previously > > > in Fedora 10 on this machine. I tried loading the pcspkr module, but > > > that did not fix the problem. Any ideas on how to get the terminal > > > bell/pc speaker working? > > > > AFAIK there is no way to get the PC speaker to beep anymore in X; the > > PulseAudio author decided nobody should use that anymore. > > .. but nevertheless for those who still want it, he provided a module > that can be installed with > > # yum install pulseaudio-module-x11 > > to get the old behavior back. That module has pulseaudio catch the X beep and turn it into a sound effect (out the sound card/speakers), similar to what metacity does. If you are running compiz instead of metacity, you would use that module to get a sound file played instead of a PC speaker beep. The real problem is that metacity takes the decision away from the user; it is hard coded to catch the X beep itself, and you _can't_ have PC speaker beeps with metacity, only sound effects. There's a year-old bug in the GNOME Bugzilla to revert that (especially since it makes a lot more sense for pulseaudio to do it, not the window manager), but it has been ignored by the metacity developer(s). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607906 -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines