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How to use (internal) PC speaker instead of external speakers for the "tput bel" sound? Which parameters should I change?

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possible duplicate of Enable System Beep in Ubuntu – Dennis Williamson Mar 8 '11 at 15:21
@Dennis and the original poster: It may depend on the distro. – oKtosiTe Mar 8 '11 at 16:02
This may also be kernel dependent - I don't have a pcspkr module under 2.6.37.1... – new123456 Mar 9 '11 at 11:58
To get the internal speaker to work, you need to load the module, but I believe it has been renamed to snd_spkr from pcspkr. To get the internal speaker to catch the regular PC speaker signal, there might very well be some OS specific setting. – Daniel Andersson Apr 2 at 7:38
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Check your BIOS settings. If the pcspeaker is disabled there, as it is often the case, you won't hear anything no matter what.

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Debian has the 'beep' package. It beeps the speaker, no soundcard needed.

The upstream page is here

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