Hello Matt (and thank you for your time!),

Typing 

$ sudo lsmod | grep pcspkr

in my terminal does not give anything. It simply shows the next prompt (if I am using the correct terminology - I am new in emacs and Linux!).

I was able to change the value of the visible bell but I was not able to find a corresponding option for the ring-bell-function. More specifically, the former comes up with a menu/button inside the buffer, which, if selected, allows one to modify value of the visible-bell. The latter (i.e., the ring-bell-function) does not offer such an option.

Any suggestions are more than welcome.

Maybe it is the distribution that disables the audible bell.

Many thanks once more,

Evita

> From: mdl@imapmail.org
> To: evitamoreno80@live.com
> CC: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Re Audible reminder in org-mode not working
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:33:27 -0400
>
> evita moreno <evitamoreno80@live.com> writes:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have a question which may look like it is already answered but the
> > solutions provided in previous threads don't really work for me. FYI, I
> > am using a Linux Mint Isadora distribution and I tried to run org-mode
> > both in a console-session of emacs (emacs -nw) and in an emacs GUI. I
> > have tried to set an audible reminder for my appointments using:
> >
> > (setq appt-audible t)
> >
> > For some reason, this does not seem to work (the visible reminder works
> > just fine). I am sure it does not have to do with volume as it works
> > fine with other apps. BTW, the code I am using is collected from
> > various threads and given that I know next to nothing in LISP, I can
> > safely assume that this is probably the reason the whole audible
> > reminder thing is not working....
> >
> > I was wondering whether anyone out there could provide a bit of code to
> > set audible reminders in org-mode (preferably working in a console
> > too). I am teaching young people to use emacs and org-mode to do their
> > research and running emacs in a console is probably the best thing to
> > do to to stop them from getting distracted from menus, toolbars and
> > other things!
>
> The first question: Does your computer "beep" under other circumstances?
> It's very likely that Linux Mint disables the beep by default. What is
> the result the following command produce?
>
> lsmod | grep pcspkr
>
> If pcspkr is enabled, you might want check the value of the following
> options with M-x describe-variable....
>
> visible-bell
> ring-bell-function
>
> Best,
> Matt