help - can't make system beep / bell

[rma88]

hey everyone, i want to script the system bell / beep for a notification for myself.

I was trying various things like echo -en "\007" to no avail, when i saw the 'beep' package in the repository. I issued a :

aptitude install beep

and now have a beep program installed; however, even when i execute the beep command i hear no beep. i have done

xset b on
setterm -blength 100

but i still hear no system beep sound... any help would be awesome. thanks everyone

EDIT: okay, so i restarted and it works now, apparently the combination above WORKS. lol

[rma88]

i spoke too soon...

while it worked once after restart, now it doesn't again. i've issued the same commands, and restarted again just to make sure. no luck... any help ?