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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:55:32
Message-Id: j3o2ph$b4l$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound by Paul Hartman
1 On 2011-09-01, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards
3 ><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> Does 'xset c' work for you?
5 >
6 > Well, it "works" as far as it sets the key click value successfully
7 > (if you "xset q" you can see if it's set) but there's no noises made
8 > by my computer.
9
10 Exactly.
11
12 > Looking more at xset it seems it's really just for setting the volume
13 > on keyboards with built-in speakers (which I haven't seen for
14 > probably 20 years). Luckily(?) my keyboard is so loud it can be heard
15 > from the other side of the house. :)
16
17 At home I'm still using the keyboard that came with my 8MHz IBM PC-AT.
18 It makes plenty of noise -- though it's still quieter than the
19 original IBM PC keyboard.
20
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