can not get tty to beep in 16.04 , even echo bel failed lol ( \a )

[Mike Marchywka]

I've got a script that can fail but I often gloss over the error message. I also have
a script to highlight text in various ways so for now I decided to just
pipe the error message into the highlighter but I wanted an audible alert.

I installed "beep" and played with it a while but no sound. "aplay"
works and I could just record my own error message but thought
a beep would be nice.

On a quick google search, all the forums seem to be about turning it off
but i can't get the "beep" to come on . Is there a trick to this?
Thanks.

just silence except aplay,
( some of these are my own scripts ) 
 2040  beep
 2041  sudo apt-get install beep

 2043  beep
 2044  man beep
 2045  mymedia -loud
 2046  beep
 2047  man beep
 2048  beep -f 300.7 -r 2 -d 100 -l 400
 2049  man beep
 2050  beep --device=/dev/audio0 -f 300.7 -r 2 -d 100 -l 400
 2051  ls /dev

 2053  find  /home/documents/ -name "*.au"
 2054  aplay /home/documents/latex/proj/happyheart/junk/xxx.au
 2055  apt-cache search sounds
 2056  man aplay
 2057  aplay -l
 2058  man aplay
 2059  apt-cache search beep
 2060  man beep
 2061  ps
 2062  beep --device /dev/pts18
 2063  beep --device /dev/tty18
 2064  ps a
 2065  beep --device /dev/tty1
 2066  beep --device /dev/pts/18
 2067  ls /dev/vc
 2068  man beep
 2069  sudo beep
 2071  sudo beep
 2072  man beep
 2073  man beep --verbose
 2074  beep --verbose
 2075  man beep
 2076  echo dfadsfa | beep --verbose
 2077  man beep


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