No bell/beep

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Alan Cohen wrote:

> I just installed Fedora Core 2 and find that Ctrl-G (bell) doesn't work
> anymore. (I know the physical connection is good because I do hear a
> bell when the system initially boots.)
>
> Bill Thanis had suggested altering aumix stuff, but this system doesn't
> even have a sound card.
>
> Any suggestions?

    I had the same problem with Mandrake 10.0; the solution:

modprobe pcspkr


    I also had to disable the "visual bell" in terminal windows with
    the -vb option for xterm and rxvt.

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