Beep
Beep is an advanced PC speaker beeping program. It is useful for situations where no sound card and/or speakers are available, and simple audio notification is desired.
Installation
Configuration
By default, only root can run the beep command, but other users can be allowed to run it by changing the permissions of the beep command.
# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/beep
You should also unmute the Beep channel using alsamixer
.
$ alsamixer
You may need to press F6
and select your card. scroll to the Beep channel using the arrow keys and press M
to unmute the channel. notice that the "MM" label below the channel will change to "00". you can also use ↑
to increase the volume of the channel.
Press Esc
to close alsamixer.
You can also save your settings to ALSA Mixer to make it permanent:
# alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state store
Tips and Tricks
While many people are happy with the traditional beep sound, some may like to change its properties a bit. The following example plays slighly higher and shorter sound and repeats it two times.
# beep -f 5000 -l 50 -r 2