[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2020-03-17 Thread Alberts Muktupāvels
Wontfix. ** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 Title: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2019-04-17 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: linux-lts-xenial (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 Tit

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony
Okay, I submitted bug #1599599 for the same problem on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1599599 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 Tit

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony
** Also affects: linux-lts-xenial (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 Title: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony
Hi all, It is six years later and this exact problem is back with Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus. I unblacklisted pcspkr and loaded the module, plus the overwhelming multitude of other steps. The "beep" command works and "echo blahblah | wall" also works, "but echo -e '\a'" and "printf '\a'" do not

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2014-01-28 Thread Mikaela Suomalainen
I am on Lubuntu 12.04 and beep isn't working for me, so I am not getting notifies on highlights from WeeChat with beep script. I have 1. removed pcspkr from modprobe blacklist 2. modprobed pcspkr 3. rebooted 4. ensured that beep isn't muted in alsamixer 5. I have ran "xset b on" multiple times and

Re: [Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Schroll
On 04/17/2012 01:57 PM, John Vivirito wrote: > This is a problem again. it was working until last week or so. I > reinstalled than updated and it stopped working, anything i can do to > help with this? Your first step should be to determine if this bug is your problem or not. This bug is specifi

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2012-04-17 Thread John Vivirito
This is a problem again. it was working until last week or so. I reinstalled than updated and it stopped working, anything i can do to help with this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4861

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-05-29 Thread Robert Schroll
> the system bell should work in metacity without issue Well, except for the issue that we've spent 18 months and 89 comments discussing: You can't turn off the libcanberra bell handling without patching Metacity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

Re: [Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-05-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
In a default natty install, the system bell should work in metacity without issue, i.e a system bell is triggered, and metacity calls libcanberra functions to play the system bell sound event. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-05-06 Thread Robert Schroll
Thomas, Pete: Problems with the system bell are subtle and strongly dependent on what exactly you are trying to do. One of these factors is the window manager. This bug is primarily focused on getting the system bell working under Metacity. gconf twiddling *may* be necessary in this case; Pulse

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-05-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Pete, thanks for the information. To summarize what I now know There are several separate issues. One is the traditional square-wave beep function. Many people say that it is necessary to: * Un-blacklist the pcspkr kernel module and load it. However, I have just discovered that this mod

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-05-05 Thread Pete Ashdown
Thomas, I don't think you need to run gconf-editor at all. This is what does it for me on Natty 11.04: /usr/bin/pactl remove-sample bell.ogg /usr/bin/pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/glass.ogg bell.ogg /usr/bin/xset b on /usr/bin/xset b 100 Plug this into a session

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-04-22 Thread Robert Schroll
I've filed another bug about problems with the system bell in Unity (#769314). Basically those problems are the same as in Compiz discussed here. So let's talk about Compiz problems over there and keep the Metacity discussion here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-04-15 Thread Thomas Hood
We shouldn't depend on upstream fixing this by removing behavior that upstream regards as a feature. It would be nice if upstream made their feature easier to disable. But we shouldn't wait for them to do that, either, before fixing the problem in Ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification be

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
Addendum. Even after doing what I just described (above, reply #81), I find that after reboot sometimes beeping doesn't work until I switch window managers between metacity and compiz. :/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Hood
To re-enable the terminal bell on my ThinkPad X61 running Ubuntu 10.10 I took the following actions suggested above: * Un-blacklist pcspkr as described above, then either reboot or modprobe pcspkr. * On the terminal window, tick "Edit | Profile Preferences | General | Terminal bell"

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-03-31 Thread Grondr
I'm the original reporter of this bug thread. I have to say, I'm completely dissatisfied so far. Every proposal has been to effectively kick this downrange and make it someone else's problem, and I'm -particularly- unhappy that this is viewed as a window manager issue! It means the (a) behavior

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-02-21 Thread Robert Schroll
Two non-reporter comments, including none from metacity developers, over 13 months may be called many things, but I wouldn't call it "being discussed." Let's be honest - upstream is not fixing this bug. Ubuntu is apparently not fixing this bug. Let's stop misleading people into thinking this wil

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-02-20 Thread Martin Pitt
Being discussed in the upstream bug (where it should be applied first), unassigning. ** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2011-02-09 Thread Kees Cook
I think until this is fixed in a sensible way upstream, there isn't a safe way to backport fixes to earlier releases. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 Title: System beep broken i

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-12-06 Thread Kees Cook
Thanks for the patches and the discussion on this. Can someone from the Ubuntu Desktop team follow this patch through to the end? ** Changed in: libcanberra (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-des

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-12-01 Thread Pete Ashdown
>Is there something I'm missing that makes having the window managers be responsible for the system bell so attractive? And >regardless, should the discussion continue here or in a new bug for "Coherent handling of the system bell"? I think the latter is important, especially on servers that have

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Schroll
Michael and Chris, thanks for taking a look at this. But I still don't understand why the system bell should be tied to the window manager. It seems to me a strange connection that leads to silly bugs like #430203. IMHO, the obvious solution is to let Pulse Audio handle the beep and leave the win

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Halse Rogers
The patch looks sane to me (and I've mentioned as much on the upstream bug), but as you've noted it will need some system-integration work to avoid regressions for the people who want their bell to ding rather than PC bleep. To that end, I brought this up with Luke Yelavich (the main Ubuntu audio

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-11-22 Thread Michael Vogt
Thanks a lot Robert for looking into this problem and for your patch. I do not feel comfortable enough with the code to judge if that will not have regresions. It would be great if upstream would comment. I noticed that you forward it to the gnome bugzilla (thanks for this). But it looks like upstr

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-11-18 Thread Pete Ashdown
This will load the bell.ogg sample for pulseaudio. My guess is that there is some disconnect between the alert settings in "Sound Preferences" and actually doing the load in gnome. /usr/bin/pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/glass.ogg bell.ogg -- System beep broken in Ka

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-10-31 Thread Robert Schroll
On 10/11/2010 11:58 AM, Thomas Troesch wrote: > When I get the system bell, I have no control over the volume, and the > duration parameter 'beeps' twice as long as xset q would indicate. Is > this the same behavior you are getting? I suspect that this may be related to bug #280767. I've noticed

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-10-11 Thread Thomas Troesch
Thank you all for your incredible effort. I have had success with the instructions in these comments. The system bell is very important for me as well. I have scripts and programs that run when the user is not sitting at the computer or even looking at it, and in a relatively noisy environment.

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-09-27 Thread Robert Schroll
Nic, thanks for figuring out that Pulse Audio was the thing breaking the bell in Compiz. I couldn't believe that I should have to restart Compiz to restore the bell, and you showed that I don't. Armed with this knowledge, I went looking around for where Pulse Audio loads its modules. The X11 one

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-09-23 Thread Nic Shakeshaft
Having struggled with this for ages, just thought I'd post the (extremely hacky!) workaround which finally got the system bell working normally for me, in case it's of any help to anyone. This is for Lucid. There were two issues for me: first, the fact that the pcspkr kernel module (when removed fr

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-09-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: metacity Importance: Unknown => Medium -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-06-21 Thread Akkana Peck
A week ago I wrote about un-blacklisting the module. But even with the pcspkr module loaded (lsmod shows it), most of the time there's no beep, either in or out of X. The pcspkr module seems very flaky in Ubuntu kernels. I've never figured out why; if I build my own kernel, pcspkr works fine, wheth

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-06-21 Thread Robert Schroll
Update for Lucid, for which I'm sure everyone has been waiting with bated breath. pcspkr is still blacklisted. See the above comment for details. Metacity behaves the same way as it did in Karmic, trapping all system bell events and using it's own playback capabilities. This is despite the fact

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-06-13 Thread Akkana Peck
A lot of the discussion in this bug has to do with metacity and pulse, but for people who don't use gnome, metacity, pulse or any of that stuff, and just want their pcspkr module to beep when asked under lucid, I just posted a blog article: http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/kernel/pcspkr-lucid.ht

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-06-09 Thread Pedro Villavicencio
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-04-17 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: metacity Status: Unknown => New -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ub

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-28 Thread Robert Schroll
This was probably unspeakably gauche of me, but I removed the -needswork tag until someone can explain to me why we would want metacity mucking about with the audible system bell events. This bug (and system bell events in general) obviously does still need work, but I just don't see what more is

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
Dmitrijs, metacity is categorised as desktop, as indeed is audio in general - I don't see anything here for the foundations team. I've subscribed canonical-desktop-team and unsubscribed canonical- foundations. -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-23 Thread Robert Schroll
Just to confirm my previous assertion, I installed the Lucid beta on a virtual machine. I applied my patch [1], restarted metacity, and unloaded and reloaded Pulse Audio's module-x11-bell [2]. System bells rang the same bell.ogg sound file, but through Pulse Audio. Additionally, I could now s

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-19 Thread Robert Schroll
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I'm part of Ubuntu Reviewers team. Your patch is good to brute-force > revert the change but what about people who want both options and switch > between the two behavior? As discussed in this long bug report it's not > possible yet due to many issues raised and the patch

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-19 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
I'm part of Ubuntu Reviewers team. Your patch is good to brute-force revert the change but what about people who want both options and switch between the two behavior? As discussed in this long bug report it's not possible yet due to many issues raised and the patch doesn't bring configurable behav

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-16 Thread Brian Murray
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[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-09 Thread Daniel T Chen
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-03-01 Thread rifter
Thank you thank you thank you Grondr and Robert for giving some respite to people who are suffering from this horrible bug. This problem is highly annoying to me. The initial reason for neutering the pc speaker was that besides it being "outdated" you had to grovel through 8 miles of innards to ge

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-02-06 Thread Robert Schroll
I've edited the description to try to give a better overview of our current understanding of the various problems in this bug. Please add anything I left out. Also, I nominated this for Lucid because, hey, why not? ** Description changed: - In a fully up-to-date AMD64 Karmic on an MSI MS-7511 a

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-31 Thread WeatherGod
Robert, I think that you have gone above and beyond at this point. At least at this point, the maintainers can try out your patches and take a good look at them to see if they want to integrate it. The best bug reports are the ones with patches! Thank you for making Ubuntu better! -- System be

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-31 Thread Robert Schroll
** Branch linked: lp:~rschroll/metacity/system-bell -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubun

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-31 Thread Robert Schroll
I've created a branch of metacity with the changes from the attached patch, and requested a merge with master, as that seems to be what I was supposed to do (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess). For purposes of cross-referencing, here's the merge request: https://edge.launchpad.net/~rschro

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Schroll
Since there's been no action from the Ubuntu maintainers on this, I finally got around to reporting this upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607906 Please take a look and add anything that I forgot. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #607906 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-09 Thread WeatherGod
I have flagged down Daniel Chen to take another look at this report, however it is quite low on his priority list and he probably has not looked at it yet. I'll see if I can get someone else to at least mark it as "Triaged". -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https:

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-08 Thread Grondr
Yes, I agree re part 3---safer to leave it in as long as metacity claims responsibility. (But it has no business claiming responsibility---leave that to PulseAudio.) We haven't heard yet about getting this bug punted to the metacity folks, so it may be time take more direct action in letting them

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-03 Thread Robert Schroll
> Confirmed---your patch fixes the issue. Good to hear! > Strictly speaking, I don't think you need part 3 of your patch I this is correct. Part 3 only re-enables the gconf /apps/metacity/general/audible_bell key to turn the bell on and off. Whether metacity *should* have a key to do this, I do

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-02 Thread Grondr
Okay, for anyone who's trying to restore the pre-Karmic behavior of beeping, here's what to do. It will give you old-style motherboard beeps when you hit rubout at an empty shell prompt in gnome-terminal or at an empty password prompt during gdm login; it will make xkbbell work; all rate-limiting

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-02 Thread Grondr
Oh btw, someone else will to have to verify if the patch is well-formed; I applied it by hand, since I was poking around to verify each piece. -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-02 Thread Grondr
Confirmed---your patch fixes the issue. Now I can migrate to Karmic without going mad. (I'll make a post showing all the extant bugs & what fixes them, since this is but one part of all the bell lossage we've discovered, but this is certainly the most-annoying one and the one that got us started.

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-02 Thread WeatherGod
Wow, that's... exhaustive. I'll see if I can flag someone down for you guys and see if they can help you any further. -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Schroll
I think I've solved the issue of metacity grabbing audible system bell events. The attached patch contains my changes to metacity (specifically src/core/bell.c). Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you. If not, please let me know. I am a complete novice at dealing with .deb fil

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-27 Thread Grondr
I can't quite reproduce your it-must-be-metacity results, because when -I- try compiz, I just lose X bells completely. BUT---metacity is -definitely- doing something wacky. Read on. Starting from metacity, xkbbell (and rubout at an empty shell prompt) "work" in the same not-really-working manner

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-22 Thread Grondr
Yes, I had the same behavior with "killall metacity" (which I was using because I was recompiling it with various things commented out). I'll run some compiz tests and make sure I can reproduce your results. I think there -is- some negotiation going on, and I'm not sure what happens if a proce

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-22 Thread Robert Schroll
> Can you be precise about what you're doing to enable/disable compiz so I can try the same tests? I had been switching between "None" (metacity) and "Normal" (compiz) in the Visual Effects panel of Appearance Preferences. I just figured out that I can also switch by running "compiz --replace" an

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-22 Thread Grondr
Aha! You've done -exactly- the debugging I was thinking of asking you to do... :) [More, even, since I didn't realize you could easily try out 9.04; I don't have any 9.04 systems and didn't really want to install one just for testing, though i guess I could. I'd assumed this was broken before th

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-22 Thread Robert Schroll
Grondr, thanks for your exhaustive efforts to describe the many permutations of this bug. I have only one thing to add: On my 9.04 system, the system bell seems to work exactly as it did in previous versions. So I think what changed, changed between 9.04 and 9.10. Perhaps we need to start diff-in

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-22 Thread Robert Schroll
Donald, I fear you've mis-understood what this bug is about. We are trying to get the system beep to come out of the PC speaker, which is that speaker on your motherboard that can only play square waves. You probably don't want to use this for your video conferencing, unless you'll be talking to

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-22 Thread Grondr
I'm beginning to wonder if this might be a gtk issue. Or gdm. Or gdk. Does anyone know how to tell which application might have called XkbSelectEvents or XkbChangeEnabledControls? Can I ask X somehow? For the moment, I'm reduced to, e.g., doing "apt-get --dry-run build-dep gdm", noting which p

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-22 Thread Grondr
Oy. I know this is probably going to be an unpopular discovery, but I am no longer sure this is necessarily a metacity bug. The problem is, then, whose bug -is- it? I just spent a couple hours hacking around in the metacity source code doing things like commenting out XkbSelectEvents and XkbChan

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-21 Thread Josh
I also am affected by this. After lots of playing around I got it to do the horrible system bell, which in my case is better than a nice sounding one, but still. Here's the steps I took to get the workaround: 1) Unblacklist pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 2) Reboot (or modprobe, whatever)

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-19 Thread WeatherGod
Grondr, thank you for your in-depth and exhaustive analysis. It will prove to be very valuable. I have marked this report as "Confirmed" for metacity, and I hope that will help capture the attention of the metacity maintainers. I think you have a much better handle on what is going on than I do,

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-19 Thread WeatherGod
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mail

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-15 Thread Grondr
I've rerun all my tests. I've attached a table and legends for it, since no doubt it would otherwise be smashed by the automatic reformatting done by launchpad (is there any way to turn that off?). Note that EVERYTHING works fine in Hoary, Dapper, and Breezy. I did not test 9.04. But 9.10 has

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-14 Thread Grondr
Robert: Re the rmmod/modprobe fandango I'm doing: I've done a bunch of testing (my next post will detail it), but I'm pretty sure what's going on with rmmod/modprobe is simply a kernel regression---if pcspkr is loaded too early, it doesn't work correctly. So if it's blacklisted, and then loaded

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-11 Thread Robert Schroll
> 4. In my case the sound coming from the sound card was missing (point 1) > and it works only if you disable compiz so I have to understand why > compiz stops that sound. If I understand correctly, this has nothing to do with the motherboard speaker. In Metacity, you're getting a sound file (bel

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-11 Thread Robert Schroll
Quoth Grondr: > Re the rmmod/modprobe fandango: I'm not the only person who needs to > do this. In fact, it would never have occurred to me that it would > even change the behavior if I hadn't seen it mentioned in bug #398161 > (see comments #1 and #2 in this thread, where Philip asked if I'd > tri

Re: [Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-11 Thread Il_Gattusso
Some more clarification: 1. Starting from ubuntu version 9.10 the system beep has been replaced from a sound coming from the sound card. 2. If you load the module pcspkr you can ear a sound coming from the pc speaker but the system don't use it (only at the shut down or with the beep command) 3

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-11 Thread Grondr
Robert: Thanks for the summary. I'm going to prepare a little table for the studio audience to try to make things clearer, especially since you correctly pointed out in comment #27 that there's ambiguity over whether I'm talking about bell.ogg or the squarewave beep coming out of line-out (whoops

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Schroll
Since we have some new people following this now, and our history of trying to track this down has been long and convoluted, I though it might help for me to summarize my understanding of the current situation. As you read this, please keep in mind that I have no idea what I'm talking about. The

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Schroll
In reply to Grondr's post from yesterday: > But if you hit rubout at the start of a line in that shell, you'll > hear the bell out your line-out, not from the motherboard speaker. If > you rmmod/modprobe, -then- a rubout there will -not- come out of > line-out and -will- come out of the motherboard

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Grondr
[IG: I don't understand your comments re the bell working in metacity -instead of- compiz. If that's true, you're talking about something different than we are. You should also strive to be more precise in your description. For example, when you say "system bell", I'm not sure if you're talking

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Il_Gattusso
uhm.. I don't know. I can't understand why a video manager interacts with sounds... some strange dependency? -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread WeatherGod
Therefore, if indeed the differential is metacity versus compiz, then the problem might be with libcanberra? -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Il_Gattusso
New information: Using metacity instead of compiz the system beep works!! any suggestions?? -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Grondr
Thanks! I just put a pointer in your bug back to here, so hopefully people will see both and figure out if we're talking about the same thing. -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Il_Gattusso
Same problem in my system. See bug 493127 GM -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bug

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-10 Thread Grondr
Daniel: If this bug is truly independent of PulseAudio, then why does renaming /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg change the behavior? If your argument is that libcanberra is looking at that file, then why is it necessary to remove a -PA- cache file to fix the bell after renaming the file ba

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Schroll
I've marked the Pulse Audio bug as invalid. The bug I feel is in metacity or libcanberra is that there is no (easy) way to disable the system bell played back through the sound card in favor of the PC speaker. (This is point (d) from above.) I don't know whether the problem is in metacity, libca

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Schroll
** Also affects: metacity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libcanberra (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix i

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Schroll
> Now, let's consider whether your window manager uses libcanberra > fully. I know metacity does. Compiz doesn't. Everything I've reported has been using metacity. If I turn on desktop effects (which switches to compiz, if I'm not mistaken), I don't get any system bells at first. If I enable th

Re: [Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel T Chen
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: > In fact, it doesn't look to me that module-x11-bell is actually loaded > by PA.  I can rename /usr/lib/pulse-0.9.19/modules/module-x11-bell.so, > restart, and still have the system bell intercepted!  This confuses me > to no end. We don't a

Re: [Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel T Chen
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Robert Schroll wrote: > back.  But the next time it happens, PA survives and rings the PC > speaker itself.  I can only assume that pulseaudio is learning, > evolving, and slowly gaining sentience, and we must kill it now.  With > fire. No. Delete it from the cache

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Schroll
One of the reasons I wanted to disable the PA bell was that it only fires about once a second (as discussed in bug #430203) when, e.g., you hold down the backspace key at a terminal prompt. I prefer the old behavior of the PC speaker of nearly-continuous beeping. When I first implemented workarou

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Schroll
Grondr wrote: > Robert: I think actually we had exactly the same problem, and your > workaround works for me. I'll explain, 'cause it'll help in debugging > this for real. That seems like a reasonable assessment. I'll point out a few places where our systems differ. These should be signs of

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-07 Thread Grondr
Robert: I think actually we had exactly the same problem, and your workaround works for me. I'll explain, 'cause it'll help in debugging this for real. First off, I've now gotten to a state where my system bell is coming out of line-out. It wasn't before. I'm reasonably sure that this was beca

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-06 Thread Robert Schroll
I've found two work-arounds. Let me know if either works for you. Workaround #1 Whatever is trapping system bell events tries to play the file /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg. If I rename this file, it falls back to the using the system bell. So long as the PC speaker is enabled (`su

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-06 Thread Robert Schroll
We seem to be having slightly different problems - I am getting a sound out of my speakers when I would expect a system beep. What I'm trying to do is go back to the ugly PC speaker beep that I know and love. I was guessing that the sound was being produced by pulse audio, and it seems that modul

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-01 Thread Grondr
Oh, right, so some quick research indicates the .tdb files in ~/.pulse are Trivial Database Files. Installing the tdbtools package (bug #557819 already complains about their total lack of documentation) lets you run tdbtool on 'em and use commands like "keys" and "dump", although the values of the

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-01 Thread Grondr
Robert: It looks like the reason module-x11-bell isn't loaded by default is because it's commented out in /etc/pulse/default.pa (along with the load-sample mentioning it near the top of that file). Presumably, uncommenting and restarting pulse (or just rebooting) would load it. But of course, unl

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-12-01 Thread Grondr
I now think that Gnome, Metacity, or Pulseaudio are implicated. The hardware and X itself are probably not. Details: I think I've managed to pry this bug quite a bit farther open, but it's not quite there yet. In particular, I -can- get the system bell to work under bare X as any user. And I c

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Schroll
I'm having the same problem on a Presario 2100 running 32-bit Karmic. Running `modprobe pcspkr` enables beeping from the ttys, but Pulse Audio continues to handle the system bell for X. Please let me know if you need more hardware info from me, but this really looks like a software issue to me. O

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-11-27 Thread Grondr
Btw, these tests under X that I'm doing---I'm doing them typing directly on the machine's actual keyboard and using its actual display. Don't get confused by my comments about ssh'ing in from elsewhere---I'm making sure to run the tests directly on the machine's actual I/O hardware so I can't get

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2009-11-27 Thread Grondr
Ah, and my comment above about reboot---I just tried "shutdown -r 3" from the LiveCD, and -that- beeped the speaker! "echo foo | wall" also beeps. I rebooted the normal 64-bit system and noticed that "echo foo | wall" didn't beep the system bell. (Although I was also ssh'ed in from elsewhere and

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