how to get beep working?

Question

I have a laptop, I've installed the beep package. I turned every sound to full, and I do this:

$ beep

But I can't hear any beeping sound. What am I missing? I just need to run the beep when a script is finished.

Answer 1

Ubuntu had an issue where some installs would beep on shutdown causing much annoyance. Their solution was to blacklist pcspkr for all installs. That may be what Fedora did. Take a look through your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (or Fedora equivalent) to see if it has an entry and try running modprobe pcspkr to make sure it's installed.

Answer 2

As of Fedora 17, I had to install xkbset and run xkbset b to enable the Audible Bell as it was disabled by default. (That, and make sure the kernel module pcspkr is loaded. The beep rpm puts a /etc/modprobe.d/beep.conf in place - you'll want to un-comment the appropriate line in that and/or run modprobe pcspkr if you haven't already.)

I hope that helps,

Adam

Answer 3

Many terminal applications have the option of turning off the beep sound. Look in you terminal's settings.

Answer 4

According to a comment at an answer at Remotely make the computer beep on built-in speaker:

gnome-volume-control can be used to control the built-in speaker separately.

So, maybe the volume level is tuned down?