The system bell works in CLI and IceWM. However, when in KDE the system bell does not work--all sounds sent to aplay are heard. I am using the Alsa sbawe (emu8k) driver and have 'set bell-style audible' in my /etc/inputrc. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a machine with a Soundblaster 32/AWE and KDE installed 2. Open a terminal window in KDE, and issue 'echo -e "\a" 3. Actual Results: Nothing Expected Results: A beep will be generated from the motherboard speaker. Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla ethereal gtk2 innodb mysql odbc postgres" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Konsole (the Kde console) usually sends the beeps to the soundcard and not to the motherboard beeper, so to hear them you must have arts (the Kde sound system) up and running. For example, can you play music through Noautun (includede in kdemultimedia)? or simply play sounds doing # artsplay <somefile>.wav
artsd is up and running, and I can play sound with 'artsplay <somefile>.wav'. But, for some reason in Konsole the alert is never sent anywhere. So, echo -e "\a" yields no more than an empty line and turn the icon on the shell "toggle button" to a bell. I have also tried setting the the "System Bell" in "Control Center" to "Use system bell instead of system notification" and this did not work either. Is there any additional information that I have not provided that could prove useful in figuring out what is wrong?
Does your pc speaker work at all? To test, go to a virtual console, login and just type the backspace key some times.
I have solved the problem the "Use System Bell" option was checked in "Control Center" > "Regional & Accessibility" > "Accessibility". I unchecked it, clicked "Apply", then checked it, clicked "Apply", and now it works... I haven't a clue as to why unchecking and re-checking it worked, but there you have it. Although I've managed to get this working, I haven't closed this bug, as there is an underlying issue--in that the configuration being shown in this instance was not the configuration being used.
closing as fixed
