12.04 System Bell or beep not working

[fixitdude]

The System Bell or the "beep" program was not working after a install of 12.04

I am talking about the PC speaker, the one inside the case that beeps at power up and when you do things in a console / terminal.

Not too hard to fix.

As root, edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Look for the line that says "blacklist pcspkr" and comment it out.

# blacklist pcspkr

Then as root do this to load that module

modprobe pcspkr

And everything should be good at the next reboot also.

Some idiot out there made a really stupid decision to disable the PC speaker in this distro.

Next time, just find the speaker plug on your PC and pull it if it bugs you that much. I use the beep command for stuff here and like the terminal bell.

[jura12]

Thank you. This hepled me really.

[qzjul]

Unfortunately, this does not work for me, though I wish it did.

[qzjul]

This answer is what worked for me.

I think it was specifically the bit to remove the pulseaudio-module-x11 package

[IanUK]

Commenting "blacklist pcspkr" and running "modprobe pcspkr" worked for me - beep works now.
alsamixer still does not show the PC speaker though - oh well...
Thank you
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