[lubuntu-users] pcspkr bell issue

[Israel]

On 10/23/2016 01:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using lubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso as live media. After the Lxde
> session started I run a script [attached]. One thing done by the script
> is enabling the PC speaker beep.
>
> If the script run for one time launched in lxterminal, the bell doesn't
> work. Nothing pulseaudio related is shown by ps aux and lsmod shows that
> pcspkr is loaded after the script run. All changes applied to lxterminal
> and xfce4-terminal are applied, I just need to close and open
> lxterminal, resp. just open xfce4-terminal for the first time. However,
> the bell doesn't work. If I run the script for the second time, the bell
> works, even without closing and opening a terminal again, but not
> before I closed and opened lxterminal one time.
>
> If a mechanism would lock something as long as lxterminal is opened,
> just closing and reopening the terminal should do the trick. I don't
> understand why it works, if I close and reopen the terminal + run the
> script a second time. As far as I can see nothing in this script and
> the 126428 similar scripts I tested before, does something related to
> the issue. Nothing that already is killed, purged and loaded gets
> killed, purged or loaded a second time.
>
> Any idea how I could enable the bell by running a script just one time?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
maybe you need a bit of time after it loads...
perhaps running

modprobe pcspkr && sleep 10 # or whatever amount you want

## the only real thing getting done would be sourcing your bashrc

source ~/.bashrc  ## you might need /home/user instead of ~ if you run
as root

printf \\a


####

the other thing ???????might?????? be an issue is that xset *might* need
to be 'refreshed' with

xset b on

Though you could add

xset q |grep bell

before the modprobe to see if you need that.... which you probably don't.


Also... you might need to use setterm

setterm --bleangth 1000

maybe even the --bfreq option...

Just some guesses... I have never tried to enable the beep personally,
only disable it :D


-- 
Regards

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