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Re: Trivial Feature Request: beep()
- From: "Brian Gallew" <geek at burri dot to>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:16:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Trivial Feature Request: beep()
- References: <200206111830.g5BIUBI77752@pilot25.cl.msu.edu>
Harold L Hunt said:
> Okay. Do you have a sound-card or just a pc speaker on the machine
> that you use Cygwin/XFree86 on?
Sound card (well, Crystal Audio built-in, it's a laptop).
> If you've got a sound card and you have your Windows sounds
> configured so that no sound is played for the Default Beep, then
> you certainly won't here anything. Go into the Control
> Panel->Sounds and check that you have a sound configured. Click
> the play button and make sure that you hear the sound when it is
> played. Then run Cygwin/XFree86 and confirm that you do not hear
> the sound.
Definitely. The "Default Beep" is set and plays correctly. But
there's no sound within XFree.
> I just did a test on a machine running Windows NT 4.0 without a
> sound card. "echo -c \\a" caused a pc speaker beep from both a
> Cygwin bash shell and from an xterm under Cygwin/XFree86. The two
> beeps were of a different pitch though... weird.
If I start up bash.exe using the WinXP explorer, I can get it to beep.
If I start up an rxvt instead, no beep. Inside XFree, no beep. I
find no reference to beep in any of my app-defaults file (or the
system ones, for that matter). xrdb -query reveals nothing useful,
either. Frankly, I'm baffled.