PC speaker does not speak

[Mike McCarty]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>>> Even after modprobing pcspkr (and verifying that it's loaded, via 
>>> lsmod), I can't seem to make my laptop squawk.  "echo -e '\\007'", 
>>> neither in a terminal window, nor or any one of the ALT-VTs, seems to 
>>> have any effect.
> 
> 
> I don't know the CLI equivalent. If you click on the volume control 
> properties and then highlight the pc speaker choice, echo -e \\007 will 
> result in a beep. I messed with the settings a moment ago after the 
> posting related to the volume settings.
> There is a slide control to set the pc speaker volume on the open volume 
>  control.

That's interesting, because the hardware has no possiblity
of actually changing the volume. It's a bit port with a
timer channel attached.

Mike
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