[argyllcms] Re: Having rouble with chartread

  • From: Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:04:28 -0600

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 10:18 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote:
> Alastair M. Robinson wrote:
> > Oh really? Actually, come to think of it, I don't think I've heard a
> > terminal beep in a while. I do tend to disable system sounds, but I've
> > just tried and failed to make a terminal beep happen on three recent
> > versions of Ubuntu!
> 
> It seems that recent operating systems are making this harder and harder.
> MS Vista/Win7 dropped the PC speaker driver, so you don't hear anything
> unless you have some sort of speaker plugged into the audio
> system. This is a step backwards in my view.
> 
> It seems like Linux is heading in the same direction...

Fedora 14 was beeping fine when I ran chartread.

> 
> Getting the beeping working will speed up your EyeOne and Munki
> strip reading considerably, since you don't have to look at
> the screen.
> 
> Graeme Gill.



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