On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:52 PM, James Cameron quozl@laptop.org wrote:
Don't know about Fedoristas, but on Debian and derivatives this is what I do for a backup disk that is identified by UUID and then backed up to ... all when plugged in ... beep ... wait for rsync ... beep beep ... pull it out.
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echo -en '\007' > /dev/tty1
Well, it *seems* that I cannot get a bell to sound on any of the systems I can get my hands on today. 2 XS (F7, based) desktop machines, 3 different laptops (running F9, Hardy), no bell on ambiguous autocompletion, no audible response to echo -en '\007' on any tty. Nothing obvious in termcap/terminfo (I'm not too handy with those but no 'vb' that I can see).
Hmmm. pcspkr.ko is loaded in all of them.
And the web is full of advise on how to *disable* it, so I guess modern linuxen have disabled it en-masse, using some trick I can't spot right now. The obvious place is termcap/terminfo, but nothing there... Ah, grumble.
ideas?
m