[TriLUG] "beep" gone

[Andrew Perrin]

Here's the deal:

- ctrl-G just yields the ^G on the screen, both in an xterm and a console
- System doesn't beep on startup, but I'm not sure it ever did
- Speaker is physically wired correctly
- It's possible that I did upgrade, because this sytem automatically does
an apt-get upgrade nightly via cron.

any other ideas?


Thanks,
Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas here? I went away on vacation, came back, and the system
> > "beep" is now silent. Since I tend to keep e-mail on a separate virtual
> > screen and wait for an alert, this cramps my style. Any clues what to look
> > for?
> 
> Since you probably didn't modify any software settings while on vacation, 
> have you checked that the system beep works at all?  Try this, type "cat" 
> at a terminal (to echo stdin to stdout).  Press ctrl-G, then enter.  You 
> should get a beep.
> 
> If that doesn't work, does your system normally beep when rebooted?  Try 
> rebooting, and if it doesn't beep now, check the speaker cable and speaker 
> itself.  (The system beep usually comes from the internal speaker unless 
> you've redirected it somehow.)
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
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