System Bell / PC Speaker

mattydee · 01-14-2007, 04:11 PM

Ok, so I am aware of the threads that discuss how to disable the annoying PC speaker either system wide or for a specific user. My problem however is that the PC speaker has been disabled for my main user (root and other users work) without my having done so intentionally... I am wondering what could have caused this.

I have checked the settings in the Control Center (using KDE), but the appropriate settings seem to be present.

uselpa · 01-14-2007, 04:27 PM

What do

Code:

lsmod | grep pcspkr
grep pcspkr /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

say?

mattydee · 01-14-2007, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uselpa

What do

Code:

lsmod | grep pcspkr
grep pcspkr /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

say?

pcspkr module is present.

no pcspkr line in rc.modules.

These would be global settings though, right?
How could they affect only one user?

Thanks

mattydee · 01-14-2007, 06:27 PM

Update: seems that it is KDE related as I get the beep when logging into Xfce with the same user.

I will have to dig deeper and look for obscure settings in KDE, I guess.

felixbecker2 · 11-16-2007, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattydee

Update: seems that it is KDE related as I get the beep when logging into Xfce with the same user.

I will have to dig deeper and look for obscure settings in KDE, I guess.

I have the same problem. Under X without KDE and under text console (i.e. non-X) the bell worked. But under KDE it does not work (it still works on other X-servers without KDE running at the same time). Stopped working after an upgrade. I did not find any solution---any idea? Did you finally work it out?

I am running KDE 3.5.5 with Debian etch/lenny/sid (and a bit of sarge), kernel 2.6.19 self-compiled.

mattydee · 11-16-2007, 08:51 PM

Haha... I haven't ever figured it out. When I upgraded to slack 12, I had my /home folder backed up so all my kde settings were saved. I have to manually delete all of my .kde folder it seems...