[CentOS] MIssing bell

Mon Sep 2 08:32:28 UTC 2013
Carl T. Miller <carl at carltm.com>

adrian at pa0rda.nl wrote:
> Hi,
> Earlier I asked how I could arrange a bell tone on my CentOS box.
> I have pcspkr loaded, I can play music over my boxes but the system beep
> or bell is missing.
> Seeveral people commented on gnome issues, but I'm using only text-mode.
> Whe I go down with the cursor e.g. on the command-line I dont hear
> anything. Is there a way to switch the bell/beep on???

The only way I know to alter the bell is using the
xset or setterm command.  Try running this to see if
it makes the bell audible.  If it does, add the line
to your .bashrc file.

setterm -bfreq 300 -blength 30

c