This is what I had to do to enable the beep under: Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Cygwin.dll 1.3.22
It seems that cygwin from 1.3.21 uses the windows "default beep" sound. I wasn't able to set the default beep with the control panel "sounds and audio devices" applet until I edited the registry adding a key: My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default After doing this I could then use the control panel applet to set a sound for "default beep". Doing a quick google it seems that this is a common problem with windows xp - somehow it occasionally (and randomly, by all accounts) "loses" the default beep, usually during sound driver installation. As always, take care when editing the registry - if you're (understandably) timid there should be .reg files out there that apply this change automatically for you. YMMV. Lev -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/