Thanks for the quick reply after so many years. On 2019-10-10 17:31 +0000, David Griffith wrote:
> My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. > On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo >> >> On 2012-08-19 19:22 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> >>>>>>>> Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> writes: >>>>>>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:53:05PM -0700, David Griffith wrote: >>> >>> >> Package: xterm >>> >> Version: 278-1 >>> >> Severity: normal >>> >>> >> After a normal bootup, the terminal bell with Xterm works as >>> >> expected. After some time it stops. This happens with RXVT, Gnome >>> >> Terminal, and XFCE Terminal. >>> >>> […] >>> >>> > If it happens with all of those, it's not xterm-specific (nor >>> > specific to xlibs). Sounds more like a problem with the desktop or >>> > window manager. >>> >>> … or the kernel. Could you please check whether reloading the >>> pcspkr kernel module helps or not? Like: >>> >>> $ sudo rmmod pcspkr ; sudo modprobe pcspkr ; >> >> Dave, do you still experience this problem? If so, does reloading the >> pcspkr module help? > > I do, but it seems like the problem is coming from pulseaudio and/or > systemd. I was not aware that pulseaudio can even control the PC speaker, but maybe you have the snd-pcsp module loaded (which is not considered a good idea[1]). Anyway, I would recommend that you reassign the bug to pulseaudio, because there is nothing which can be done about it in xterm. Cheers, Sven 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496890