Graeme Gill wrote: > Sorry, what I meant was that when the terminal is set to audible bell, > I get nothing. OK. For my machine the same applies as Lars said. The speaker output is routed to the sound card, and the volume for the speaker channel as well as a mute/unmute switch for the channel can be controlled via the sound mixer. Furthermore it is necessary that the bell volume in the X server is set to a value > 0. $ xset q | grep bell bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 -Gerhard