Enable System Beep in Ubuntu

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Published on 2009-08-14T05:01:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 22:11 UTC
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I have tried and tried to get the system beep working, but with no success.

I have selected System-->Sound-->System Beep-->Enable Audible Beep (from the Gnome Desktop) I have tried from a Terminal window Edit-->General Tab-->Selecting terminal bell checkbox I have tried entering modprobe pcspkr at the command line.

Trying echo -e '\a' or using the beep application - Nothing works!

I know my hardware speaker works, because if on startup the battery is low it will beep.

Update: It is a laptop computer. It is an IBM Thinkpad, iSeries.

I did look at the modprobe blacklist, and pcspkr was not listed.

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