On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
Chris Adams writes:
> Once upon a time, Mike Zingale <zingale(a)gmail.com> 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. The best you
> can do is enable the alert sound effect, assuming you have a sound
> device in the computer and speakers connected.
That only works in metacity. Does not work in Compiz.
unfortunately, I don't have any sound device on this machine -- it's a
server motherboard. There is a PC speaker, so I liked having that
beep give the alerts. Seems strange that they would remove this basic
functionality. I'll think about filling a bug report.