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

[Mike Marchywka]

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:09:40AM -0000, Jonesy via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 18:05:42 +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> > none of those made a noise...
> 
> I think you need `pcspkr` installed -- which is _not_ - with Ubuntu.
> At least that's what my memory pulls up from an issue some time back.
> I have no need for `pcspkr` currently; so I dunno what the "rules" are now.


I did the pulse audio thing and now the echo BEL seems to click
but "beep" still fails. I think I will go with the "paplay" thing.
aplay will play the ogg file but it is just white noise lol.
Thanks.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/19906/beep-in-shell-script-not-working


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