SOLVED : No system bell?

[skunk]

Has the PC speaker driver been disabled in the latest kernels? Since installing 9.10 the system bell (aka beep) has not worked. I notice that the KDE System Notifications has an entry for Beep that works, but unfortunately the volume of the file KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg is very low.

Apart from editing the file to increase the volume, is there any other way to restore the old system bell/beep sound?

[josefko]

Re: No system bell?

I have PC Beep slider as one of possible sliders in Mixer (the speaker icon in System Tray) and I had the beep sound so loud, that I have muted it.

[jayhawk]

Re: No system bell?

It is currently blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. You can remove the blacklisting by editing the file:

kdesudo kate /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and look for the line:

# ugly and loud noise, getting on everyone's nerves; this should be done by a
# nice pulseaudio bing (Ubuntu: #77010)
blacklist pcspkr

You can either remove the "blacklist pcspkr" line or comment it out like:

# ugly and loud noise, getting on everyone's nerves; this should be done by a
# nice pulseaudio bing (Ubuntu: #77010)
#blacklist pcspkr

[josefko]

Re: No system bell?

It is currently blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

I have it blacklisted too, but I still can hear the pc beep (ugly and loud noise) as I wrote above, but now I am not sure if we are talking about the same sound.

[skunk]

Re: SOLVED : No system bell?

Thanks jay removing the blacklist fixed it