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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound
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On 2011-09-01, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does 'xset c' work for you?
>
> Well, it "works" as far as it sets the key click value successfully
> (if you "xset q" you can see if it's set) but there's no noises made
> by my computer.

Exactly.

> Looking more at xset it seems it's really just for setting the volume
> on keyboards with built-in speakers (which I haven't seen for
> probably 20 years). Luckily(?) my keyboard is so loud it can be heard
> from the other side of the house. :)

At home I'm still using the keyboard that came with my 8MHz IBM PC-AT.
It makes plenty of noise -- though it's still quieter than the
original IBM PC keyboard.

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