[Bug 1200544] New: xbell no longer working
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544 Bug ID: 1200544 Summary: xbell no longer working Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.4 Hardware: x86-64 OS: openSUSE Leap 15.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other Assignee: screening-team-bugs@suse.de Reporter: agesen@cs.stanford.edu QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- I updated from 15.3 to 15.4 and all is well, well :-) mostly. Sound works when playing video in firefox, when playing musing with mplayer, etc. But xbell is no longer to be heard. I miss "vi" baking a beep when I hit escape at the wrong time. I miss xbiff making a sound when an email arrives (there is no sound but it still changes the icon to flag-up). How may we go about debugging missing "system sound" (or whatever it is? Just to clarify, I have checked pavucontrol and tried fiddling with all the sliders. No difference. Please let me know if I can upload log files that may help. Thanks, Ole Dell Inspiron from 2011ish. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544#c10 --- Comment #10 from GDPR Deletion <agesen@cs.stanford.edu> --- Something seems "unstable" if I may use that term. This morning I got xbiff sound. Then I put these lines into my .xinit file: # Set bell: 20% volume, 4000 Hz, 6 ms duration. pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga \ bell-window-system pactl load-module module-x11-bell display=$DISPLAY xset b 20 4000 6 This evening, xbiff is dead silent. Not sure what made it work once this morning (first try didn't seem to work, though now I'm unsure if it was just retrying that made things work). Sorry, this is not very helpful. Alsa, Pulse and Linux sound in general is rather complex. Ole -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544#c11 --- Comment #11 from GDPR Deletion <agesen@cs.stanford.edu> --- Aha! I need this 3rd command (which I had not added to xinitrc as it seemed an odd-man-out for that file): amixer -c0 set Beep 100% -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544#c12 --- Comment #12 from GDPR Deletion <agesen@cs.stanford.edu> --- I no longer can make sense of the data/experiments. I have three commands (pactl, pactl and amixer). In xinit file they don't work. Then I try one of them in terminal (amixer) and xbiff makes sound. Then I put them in different order in xinit (amixer last). No sound. Now, multiple times, I tried all three in terminal and xbiff is still silent. Would you know of any logs that may be helpful? Thanks, Ole -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544#c18 --- Comment #18 from GDPR Deletion <agesen@cs.stanford.edu> --- Power-savings mode is a great clue! I noticed this loop produces _one_ beep when it is the only sound stream on the laptop: for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep(); try { Thread.sleep(200); } catch (InterruptedException e) {} } If I play a song (ABBA's Dancing Queen :-) I hear all four beebs every time. Can power savings be disabled as a further experiment? Ole -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200544#c39 --- Comment #39 from GDPR Deletion <agesen@cs.stanford.edu> --- Takashi, I'm now using 5.14.21-150400.24.41-default on an AMD Ryzen Dell Inspiron laptop. Once again Bell is malfunctioning in certain situations. I loaded the X modules per comment 10. Xbiff -- no bell. vi -- no bell echo \007 -- no bell xkbbell -- this works xkkbell -force -- no bell I only use this laptop when travelling, so it is a very small issue. Please let me know if you would like to investigate further? Thanks, Ole -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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