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Hi there!

I am working with a Xubuntu Guest system on a Vista (Business x64) host system, and I can't seem to get the PC beep to work.

Normally this would not be an issue, but I've just been handed a project for a C++ class that wants me to use the PC speaker. I enabled sound, trying both the soundblaster and the AC97, but neither seems to pass anything through for the PC speaker.

Any ideas are appreciated!

Thanks,

Silly suggestion, but is the PC Speaker not muted on the Guest? My laptop doesn't have a pc speaker either and running Xubuntu native. I can mute the PC Speaker in Alsa mixer. Is the module also loaded?

There is a small chance that the issue is in the Windows Host, but I will leave it here for the time being. When it is certain that it's not the Host, I will move it to Linux Guests.
You do have normal audio in the Guest, right?

I checked in ALSA, and the "PC Speaker, 0" has a checkmark next to it.

I also tried playing music in the guest system, and it plays perfectly.

I suppose I should note that the PC speaker beep I am trying to grab comes from the "beep" shell command.

Thanks!

EDIT:

Er... I decided to take another look around, and I went into the "Services" window, where I discovered that ALSA was unchecked. I checked it since, after all, I would like it to run. I rebooted the VM, and now I have lost all sound.

When I looked in the services pane again after rebooting, ALSA was still unchecked, but I had no sound.

For the beep, if you have a normal PC, I found out that current casings don't always have a PC speaker build in. Even though mainboards still have that connection. It won't be passed to the systems audio controller.

The ALSA service can be started when you issue the /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start command as root.